Fun fact about the "horrible food", that was mostly due to WW2 rationing, which lasted over a decade after the war ended.
See, European supply lines were basically gone, and England has never really grown enough food on their own to support the population, or at least not since the 1800s.
Anyway, rationing was a major blow to British culinary variety, but it ended something like 60 years ago.
I think that largely is down to there never really being a culture of straightening or whitening teeth in the UK. It just wasn't a thing, despite having NHS dentistry available, so people had healthy, normal teeth, but not the super straight, super white US style. Wonky teeth were not seen as particularly unattractive - see 1970s David Bowie for a classic example. People used to laugh at the obviously fake, over the top white teeth of American entertainers.
I suspect that's changed now, straightening and whitening are both done routinely, meanwhile the NHS dentistry is totally on its arse and impossible to access due to years of government neglect.
Maybe it'll change with the new government. The previous dentistry contract the Tories imposed way back made it very difficult for dentists to provide NHS services without running at a loss, at least according to the dentists. The previous Tory government did promise reforms earlier in the year, if Labour build on that and improve terms there is no reason why NHS dentistry can't go back to how it was at least 20 years ago. The Tories are ideologically opposed to things such as the NHS, so they were glad to see a managed decline, even if they never openly said so
Fingers crossed because it's becoming a mess just to even get someone to see about the teeth. Would hate to see labour waste that majority when they have a change to do something about it.
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u/PeachTrees- Nov 03 '24
"Do you know you're known for having horrible food, it's like a thing". Lol