The cultural equivalent of:

"So what do you like to do?"

"I like to have fun."

I have met people in Britain who genuinely seem to hate food. They have a plain cheese sandwich, the worst imaginable bread or eat Huel every day.

That doesn't necessarily reflect all Britons, but I do think they genuinely care about food less on average than other cultures.

In my culture we had nothing but roadkill and weeds to eat, so we got really good at making stuff palatable. << Most cultural food legends.

Bro has never been to England

The word "zeitgeist" makes more sense to me than the word culture. I know what "zeitgeist" means but the use of the word word culture is applied more generally to the point of being vague or anthropological. I grew up eating lots of McDonald's so is my culture Scottish, or fast foody?

My kind of people. “We see food as necessary but not really a key part of enjoying life”

He's british i guess.

People say that about food, music/dancing, and stories because they are the least antagonistic thing they could bring up while boasting about their culture. Its the least likely to get attacked as well, its a non-controversial aspect they can sing the praises of and its something easily shared

If they bring up their cultural religion, values, politics, philosophy, or social dynamics, suddenly things can become an area of controversy and even ethical debate. Most people are too fragile or cowardly to investigate that stuff.

Well my culture loves watching TV and vegging out!

The alternative to loving food is to eat as a necessity and seek to optimise it. Various combinations of industrialisation, the Protestant work ethic/disdain of unproductive hedonism, neoliberal financialisation of food production/distribution (hence the flavourless “water bomb” tomatoes that last longer in the supply chain, for example) and possibly endemic low-level depression could do this, to the point where the norm is just to get the necessary calories and a dopamine hit from some sugar/salt/fat and anything else seems suboptimal.

For many cultures food is just nutrition, something that you have to do. This doesn't mean you can't appreciate good food or that your traditional recipes are bad, just that it's not the same as cultures where there is a lot of importance on both the food and the context of consuming it with others

I would say this holds true for the USA considering all this fast "food" they eat. A culture that loves food doesn't do this.

I once saw a post where the guy said he was from Minnesota and he thought ketchup was too spicy.

I wanted to burn the heretic.

Some cultures value food more than others. Pretty obvious there's a spectrum between "we eat for sustenance" and "holy shit taste this recipe I've been honing for decades". This is a shit post, not a shitpost.

We’re all just different flavors of the same hobbies: eat, dance, tell stories, repeat.