British ‘cuisine’ isn’t just one type.
Just like anywhere you have the good with the bad.
You had what the aristocrats ate, the working man, the middle class, the farmers etc.
I like tradtiional British working /farmer fare…Yorkshire pudding, steak and kidney , shepherds pie, Sunday roast , all that. A bit heavy so you wouldn’t be eating it everyday unless working down a mine or something. The upper classes would be eating all kinds of fancy stuff the lower classes never saw.
But what people actually eat in the UK now is something different. They have some great tradtional food markets, cafes, bakeries all over the UK and also their supermarkets have a lot of good fresh produce because a lot of people cook at home still.
My main criticism of UK food are there are too many chains , especially and most disappointingly involved with pubs and pub /carvery food.
In the 17th century, the Chinese mixed pickled fish and spices and called it (in the Amoy dialect) kôe-chiap or kê-chiap (鮭汁, Mandarin Chinese guī zhī, Cantonese gwai1 zap1) meaning the brine of pickled fish (鮭, salmon; 汁, juice) or shellfish.[7][8] By the early 18th century, the table sauce had arrived in the Malay states (present day Malaysia and Singapore), where English colonists first tasted it. The Malaysian-Malay word for the sauce was kicap or kecap (pronounced [kɛt͡ʃap]). That word evolved into the English word “ketchup”.[9]