switchlogic:
Come on now I only get involved if you say that Poland is better than the UK at something when I think it isn’t.
Exactly in the same places, but opposite way, I get involved with defending Poland.
Of course Poland must be better than us at something. Same as Italy is, or France, etc etc.
Glad to hear that you have some common sense after all 
I just think your view of our food is stuck in the 70’s when the prawn cocktail was seen as the height of fine cuisine. The quality of food we produce in this country is at an all time high.
No wonder, that you don’t know what REALLY GOOD food is
Many of the foods we produce are considered among the best in the world.
I wonder by whom - by all this British tourist who ask for fish and chips whenever they are?
For instance our beef is second to none and our artisan cheese producers are even rivalling France. But of course there’s plenty of stuff where other countries beat us by miles.
Ok, now I answer to you in more serious way:
This is true that some of the meat you produce is very good, just happened to read the article on beef and depends of rankings, you come first, second or third (Poland for example comes second, third and fifht). But be honest with me: how often do you eat the top of the top meat? I earn really good money and I can rarely afford the food from the top shelves.
Since you want to discuss it on a more serious matter: I am sure that if I go to the well recognized expensive restaurant I will have best quality food, no matter in what country that restaurant will be, but most of the people just eat everyday stuff. And here even if ingredients are good, the food is too processed.
Lets look at the example of bread:
Most people don’t eat some nice bread from the best bakeries, awarded with milions of awards worldwide even though I am sure that there are plenty of such bakeries in Britain. Most people stick to some cheap sliced bread from big factories (I am sorry, but somehow I cannot force myself to start calling them bakeries). And the product they get is far from the best what Britain has to offer. But they have no choice, as good bread costs several times more.
In Poland it is still not as industrialised as here. In Poland even the cheap bread (but not the cheapest, we already have these big factories in Poland!) It’s like the piramid of the bread is constructed differently. In Britain you will have 90% of the market dominated by cheap bread from the chemical plants, then you have few % of good bread and some small top of the really good stuff.
In Poland the top bread will also consist only few % of the market, but the range of good-yet-still-not-too-expensive bread will be much more, leaving only, say, 20% of market to the crappy products.
So this discussion about food is a bit off the track.
I try to explain what I mean on another exaple:
Britain has many restaurant recognied by the Michelin guide, Poland has not as many and only few have the highest rates.
But if you drive on British road and you don’t have few thousends to spend on the meal, you have a choice of pub food heated for you from frozen Woodwards products, some greasy burger vans or MSA “restaurants”. In Poland it is still much easier to eat a proper, good meal for a reasonable price.
So while I agree that you have some products which are the best of the world (and you will propably agree with me, that Poland have some too), from the point of view of average John in the pub, Poland has more to offer. Or Italy, or France, or Czech Republic for that matter.
Britain is briliant in many ways, but everyday food stuff is not one of them. And my British friends agree with me on that.
But if someone comes on here saying British food is rubbish then I’ll challenge them.
I am not saying that all British food is rubbish, just as I am not saying that all Polish food is brilliant. What I say is that if you have some certain amount of money to spend on food, you will get more (or better quality food) if you buy Polish, even here in UK. Off course this food will not be as good as the best food Britain has to offer, but it will be better than the british food you can buy for the same money.
And it’s not a rocket sience: in Poland ground is cheaper, fuel is cheaper, labour is cheaper and climate is more friendly for farming - this is why we are more agricultural country and why we can offer food cheaper. There is nothing about nationality in this.
If they come on here saying our motorways are crap then I might agree with them.
Well, they are still better than Polish ones, as we almost don’t have them
Stop dragging everything to Poland all the time and everything will be fine.
I am not dragging everything to Poland, unless you slag my country with no reason
) And it is true, Polish people (not only in Poland) cook from scratch more often. I don’t cook from scratch, as I am a terrible chief 