Strange, what you do is symbolically making a working-class hero sandwich and then suggesting that anything more complex or attentive is only something "The Man" does.
Which is where I call bullshit.
I agree with Eden so far as indicating the difference between convenient and simple foods and wanting to make something a bit more complex and otherwise unattainable without some extra time, care, or technique.
Otherwise, you might as well consider a significant proportion of Indian cuisine as elitist because, wow, look at all that time, dedication, and all those crazy spices and other ingredients they use in traditional dishes. And what about other cuisines that have dishes on a similar level of complexity? Those elitists....
Is this because you're British? Fish and chips and stuff right?
"Great British food means unfussy dishes made with quality local ingredients, matched with simple sauces to accentuate flavour, rather than disguise it."
British cuisine: Recipes: Good Food Channel
"Vilified as 'unimaginative and heavy', British cuisine has traditionally been limited in its international recognition to the full breakfast and the Christmas dinner."
Spencer, Colin (2003). British Food: An Extraordinary Thousand Years of History. Columbia University Press.
Do you think this is merely a matter of culture? I'm a Canadian living in one of the most multicultural cities in the world. I'm exposed to virtually every cuisine you can think of. I've tried so much of it that I can't get my head around your position.
It's not elitism; it's history, it's tradition, it's an exploration of the senses.