My wife and I were in Scotland the summer before last and we loved the breakfasts, including the haggis. Also, we had steak and mushroom pie and a ploughman's lunch at a pub down in Greenwich that were to die for and weren't hungry for dinner until 9 PM. Now, just got back from a week in Boothbay Harbor ME where the blueberry pancakes, lobster rolls, fried clams, and the crab cakes were out of this world..so, if one knows where to look, both the UK and USA have some terrific indigenous food. Lazy people will continue to eat crap wherever they happen to be.
My parents live on the GA coast, and we go down to the shrimp fleet dock with a bucket and buy shrimp straight out of the sorter for dirt cheap . . . and for considerably less you can buy it straight out of the net but you have to pick out the weeds, shells, small dead fish, etc. Crab cakes fresh with just enough eggs and flour to hold them together . . . no lobster of course and I don't eat oysters, but ohhhhhh those shrimp and crabs! Plus, unlike Maine, they know how to fry a chicken so if you get tired of shrimp . . . :-D
Big Digger, I am sure they do, I occassionaly like a Scone. Just got back from Gulf Shores, Alabama, the Seafood there superb. I had Fried whole soft shell crabs, steamed oysters with cajun seasoning, red snapper in a wine cream sauce with shrimp, and Oyster po boy...MIND YOU THAT WAS NOT ALL IN ONE SETTING...it was spread out over a few days.