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British food made Englishmen the best sailors in the world.

Actually sort of. I mean I guess what you would call a soup. Though the Chinese would just consider that a sauce. The put that shit on everything. Well different sauces. Here's a random picture of a Chinese school lunch.

https://whatsforschoollunch.blogspot.com/2009/08/china-school-lunch-fish-and-vegetables.html

You see how the veggies are glistening? They're covered in a sauce made with cornstarch and broth. Even the fish has a layer of sauce on it.

So yeah, a sandwich would be pretty dry. But that's not really what they're talking about.

In Chinese food, there's an insane amount of seasonings that basically go in everything. At a minimum they use something called 5 spice which is a mixture of you guessed it, 5 spices. So the dry they're referring to is actually seasoning. So something like a subway sandwich with italian dressing, salt, pepper and oregano wouldn't be dry in the way they're using it. They're really just referring to the sandwich being unseasoned. Also, here's a tip, if you're going to make a sandwich, season it. Even just adding salt and pepper will make it taste way better.

I think that this is the definition of dry that means boring.

adjective

lacking interest or stimulation; dull and lifeless

"a dry book"

"a dry lecture filled with trivial details"

in Asian countries it still isn't smart to drink the water so cooking in water to make a soup base is very common.

In England they got around this by drinking all the tea and/or beer so they could enjoy their dry lunch without getting cholera.

(historically, China’s not had the best luck with the British)