I’ve not been to UK so have no opinion on taste, but I think I was brought up with English food. So many things I see/read you doing, my relatives did likewise. Many were just one or 2 generations from England. I must admit that I wondered WHY does my mom serve this or that, when I don’t see it on other tables, but I’ve learned from you that it’s the English way :) I think we typically like what we’ve grown up with - the things that are familiar.
Mom had very English tendencies in her cooking, and I love flour tortillas (could be from my Lefsa background ;-)
I must admit there are many things I enjoy of the American style of cooking but other things I cannot imagine eating that with that, the same obviously goes for Americans when they see English food.
One thing I have learned from Freepers is that the word salad means something completely different in the US than Britain.
In Britain if you went into a pub or a restaurant and ordered ham salad you would get a couple of slices of ham, some lettuce tomato, cucumber, possibly beetroot, spring onions (green onions) etc and then either in a glass dish/bottle if a restaurant or in a sachet or even the bottle the sauce comes in mayonnaise, salad oil and or more likely salad cream. I believe in American ham salad is cut up ham mixed with various ingredients including mayonnaise.
The same would go for egg salad basically you would get the same as above but instead of ham you would get hard boiled eggs cut in half and served with the salad ingredients. Some places might scoop the yoke out and mix with mayonaise or salad cream or instead of just having the eggs might slice them.
If you choppped the hardboiled up and mix with salad cream or mayonaise we call that egg mayonaise and often serve that between two slice of bread for a sandwich which we would call egg mayonaise sandwich. An egg sandwich would be hard boiled eggs sliced and then put between two buttered slices of bread sometimes served with cress and or tomato but rarely with mayonaise though it is becoming the fashion now to cover everything in mayonaise I think this is something imported from the States. Personally I do not care for it as it takes away the individual taste of the food you are eating and is hidden calories that are just wasted and not needed IMHO. Another reason I think that the current generation of Brits are overweight their diet is different to the older generations with more hidden calories.