[conservative cat]

I don't think the English, in general, are known for their healthy eating. As much as the Americans get criticized for how we eat, I think at least we attempt to be healthier (salads, fresh fruit/vegetables, etc). It's been 20 years since we last visited, but I did not notice a trend for fresh food there, especially with younger people.

[Protagoras]

The English are terrible cooks in general. I know my own heritage. :^}

[leilani]

It's been 20 years since we last visited, but I did not notice a trend for fresh food there

Then you missed a significant culinary revolution in England (actually all of the UK & IE), as it's become quite the must-try destination for foodies across the pond as well as the continent.

Still, for all the trendy, healthy changes over there, I was thinking just yesterday there's nothing more soul-satisfying than a good,steaming, old-fashioned artery-clogging english breakfast.

[east1234]

Forget about health, their food tastes like $#!^. 130 days of eating that garbage, everything is bland, the meat is tough and tastes like it was aged for months, their potato chips (crisps) are prawn (shrimp) flavored, pizza crust=cardboard. McDonald's cheese burger, bleech! how the hell do they make it taste like that? Baked "Tamatoes" and baked beans for breakfast, Bangers taste like someone was banging them, salad is oddly brown, lots of cold canned corn on that salad bar though. Order crackers, you get some digestive chip thing, order a baked potato w/ cheese, sour creme, and bacon and they act like you're bonkers. So you try a Mexican restaurant, now I've never been to Mexico but sure as hell neither have the cooks in England. So you go to Tesco, or Sansbury (supermarkets) to try and buy something edible. Triscuits? hell no, peanut butter? I learned to smuggle mine in, any cracker that resembles something edible? Ritz, and that's it.
Overweight and out of hope you'll ever lose that extra 60 pounds? Work a contract in England, you'll come back anorexic!