The Brits say the US has terrible food? That's a hoot. No place to get boiled mutton and blood pudding.
I can't believe nobody's pinged you to this yet.
The great thing about America is you can get any type of food you want -- bad, good, excellent, and of any ethnic variety.
I'm amazed too. Euroeans labor under the delusion that American food is peanut butter and hamburgers. Now, I'm Indian, from the South. And I love the prepackaged N. Indian fare I pick up at the supermarket on occasion. You can buy absolutely everything you want here. If I want S. Indian fare, I make it my blessed self. And if you can't find it, such as mozzarella, for instance, you have only yourself to blame. In this altar to capitalism, Italian immigrants should have built caseifici to make their cheeses. God knows buffalo milk is available. Hell, we can buy lion and bison steaks in this country. So, I have no patience with whiny Europeans complaining about the food. Don't like it, correct your inadequacy.
About the clothing, I can explain that, too. Electric power is inexpensive in the US. So we can do multiple clothing changes a day. Europeans always marvel at my elegance. I dress fabulously for work and then get in my 'uniform' in the evening - a tank top and jeans. I go to the supermarket and my local Home Depot dressed like that If anybody invites me out anywhere, I switch to a dressier top, stick my feet in heels, grab a long, wide scarf (to prepare for the refrigeration that passes for air-conditioning here deriving from cheap electric power) and go. Those Eurodopes go everywhere in the clothes they had on in the morning. And they're nice clothes. They buy 3 shirts/blouses/tops, 2 skirts/pants and wear the exact same thing, day after day, for the entire season. So, yes, they're 'fashionable'. But their choices as dictated by the price of power. In the winter, they visit others in their building wrapped in shawls - probably consider that elegant too.
Today, I read in an Italian newspaper that a couple whose combined income exceeds 27,001 euros a year must pay 465 euros a month to send their baby to the "state provided" daycare. So, Americans, when some European tells you about the services 'provided' by the government, ask them at what cost. God knows they're always flapping their gums about their services. Here's another instance. You can get Lasik provided by the state, but you must first get to -8 dioptres. You can get Herceptin provided by the state but its availability to you is determined by your zip code. You can get state provided dialysis, but not after age 55. NO, THANK YOU. I'll pay for my own services, in my high-wage-low-tax cowboy capitalist economy that I LOVE.
This legal immigrant will permit herself one more observation.
AMERICA ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!
You can get all the authentic British grub you want, which in my case would be very, very little, in and around the Tampa Bay area. Many Brits have settled in that general area, and for some reason quite a few of them seem to have felt it necessary to open British type pubs and restaurants.
So yes, you can get authentic British food over here. Which of course begs the question, why would you want to?
How about a dish of some nice bubble and squeak sir? No thanks, I'll just stop by the 7-11 on the way home and pick up a hot dog which has been rolling on those hot, shiny metal tubes since the store opened in 1991.