There's long been a distrust of "fancy" food by many people in the UK (one of the reasons British food has a bad rep), in the 90s it was columnists/comedians moaning about sundried tomatoes and so on, this feels like an extension of that, coupled with a bit of the "anti-elites" culture war stuff

Right, except takeaway curry and spag bol are also claimed by the British now. Read an article today about Dublin "spice bags" and the British writer who was visiting Dublin talked about "classic Chinese takeaway chips" and I am just ...

Oh yeah there's no logic as to what is and isn't "fancy", basically anything out of the ordinary seems to frighten/upset/annoy some people.

Remember them mocking Obama for asking for Grey Poupon mustard like it was some incredibly elite stuff, and remembering that my mom had it in the refrigerator, in Ohio, in the 1970s.