In my opinion the people who brag the most about their food have the worst food. I don't let other people tell me what I like and what I don't like.
For example, take China. If you are going to have a 12 course feast then in my opinion it has to be Chinese food. But that is not what you eat every day*.
Go into a 711 and there is nothing worth snacking on, not compared to a meat pie.
Give me a ploughman's lunch over some fancy French restaurant meal that would cost me $100 any day.
*While in Taiwan I went to a restaurant that was supposed to be the favorite restaurant of the President of Taiwan. We walk into the restaurant and you have to walk through the kitchen to get to the stairs, dining room is on the second floor. We see the chef in a pair of shorts, that is it, no shirt. He is smoking a cigarette, petting dog and cooking. The dog he was petting had mange. All the Americans in the group immediately balked at eating there to the dismay of our Chinese hosts. I love Chinese food, but at the same time I warn people against eating it. There is a reason Chinese restaurants are cheaper than other restaurants, people have no idea what the Chinese are willing to do to cut costs.