I'm English, and I was going to say something about stereotypes, but then I thought... I'm a total southerner. I've been to Scotland once, and Yorkshire once, but other than that, I don't really know what it's like in the north. It might all be true, the north-south divide is real. We do have some pretty crapy food (although the popular perception of America's food isn't any better), but I guess so does everywhere. And if we have more of it, I've never really noticed, because I eat good food.

You see, in some ways my family is a good example of the upper middles class stereotype. I don't know how well known that is in other countries. I know there's the idea of the working class, northern type of person, and the tea drinking, well spoken upper class Englishman, but I don't know about in between. The British "upper middles class" is a more well defined idea than in other places, as far as I'm aware.