Countries with terrible cuisine and bland food, dress up the absence of flavors and spices as a form of acquired "aristocratic moderation".
In reality, they just suck: eg. British and Japanese food, they are spiritually very similar.
Isolated island off the coast of the Eurasia continent, who went through an imperialist phase, albeit Britain was way more successful.
The difference is, British food is not sugarcoated in a layer of orientalism. Where uninformed western tourists munching on bland raw fish dipped in soy sauce thinking it's high culture.
The Brits are self-aware enough to mock their own food, but the Japanese are the opposite. And because of the orientalist bs, the rest of the world is forced to play along, justifying that the Japanese sushi on the right is better than the Mexican version on the left.
@itsdeaann lmfao clown. your country is in the shitter because of this scaredy cat attitude. how many people have died and left fatherless kids and widow wives because of charlie kirks rethoric and propaganda? grow some fucking balls and do something