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[–] [email protected] 77 points 9 months ago (23 children)

The reputation comes from the US military being stationed in the UK during the height of WW2 rationing when there was an extremely limited list of ingredients to cook with. They were unable to associate a country under an attempted siege from U-boats with a reduced supply of food.

We do have a love of beige food at times, but it's essentially our version of chicken tendies.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (20 children)

Ahhh, that makes sense. Kinda rough that the rep hasn't gone away yet, though.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (10 children)

Boomers made that bland war time food linger. They were children during and just after WW2 so it was part of their childhood nostalgia and they fed it to their own kids. Also we've had Indian/ Chinese restaurants in the UK for a while but they were mostly just in major cities at first so the average person still had little exposure to foreign or exotic food until the late 1970s/ early 1980s.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Boomers weren't children during WWII. Boomer means baby boomer, as in someone born during the baby boom. The baby boom happened after the war ended.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Good point. But rationing continued in the UK until 1954 so it did affect them.

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