The British emphasis on bread and beef to the near exclusion of everything else was fascinating. There was this widespread attempt around the world in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to try to convert Mexicans or Argentinians, Brazilians or Japanese to bread and beef diets. Most of those efforts failed because it was economically an incredibly uphill job but they didn't fail entirely. The Japanese today eat bread and so do most of the Latin Americans and beef is valued in those places.