I have a neat book called “Bad Food Britain” which is about how the Brits can’t really deal with cooking or food - but it sometimes applies to Americans as well.
Ah-ha!
Did they list the bad British cooking as the secret catalysts to such literary efforts as "Frankenstein", "Dracula", the Morlocks of "The time Machine"? As well as the whole Hammer Studios catalogue.
When Cecil Rhodes was asked why he emigrated to South Africa, he replied that he was sick and tired of eating cold mutton.