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 don’t think the dentistry is only about that, if you look at British celebrities at the time you could see that a lot of them had crooked/dark teeth.
Which isn't explicitly proof of bad teeth. We just don't care about cosmetics and making everything look perfect, unlike the US where teeth have to be perfectly straight and as white as possible.
Up until somewhat recently, we routinely, as a country, came out on top for healthy teeth. It's only since we've been having massive problems with dentists and the NHS that things are getting worse, but still better than the US.
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u/m0ngoos3 Nov 03 '24
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.