Comfort food to a well rounded chef can also be considered slop. So easy a caveman can do it. Seriously, meatloaf and potatoes? You illustrate my point precisely.
Even high end Brit food comes off to me as unimaginative and bland. Sorry it so offends you that someone on a forum has a different take or perspective. Nothing personal really.
And yes, I do have a lifetimes worth of chef level culinary skills and experience, even though I didn't choose to go into that line of work.
OK, so you’re a food snob.
In my experience, much high cuisine is pretentious, overpriced, and under-portioned. A lot of these restaurants, in the old cliché, sell the sizzle as much as the steak.
Even simple dishes often demand a degree of skill and experience, especially in the home kitchen. Not all of us can be culinary professionals, but I would never disparage a quality home-cooked meal. The good amateur cooks I’ve known over 62 years are not “cavemen.”
It’s not that often I’ve encountered a perfectly made-from-scratch Southern biscuit, so light it practically floats off the plate, ready for ham, jam, honey, or whatever you want to put on it.
I appreciate simple, hearty American food, with quality ingredients, prepared the old-fashioned way ... but I suppose that’s only fit for “cavemen.”