Possible Clues:

• Come to be less highly respected
• Look eating places over, expecting initially to be humiliated
• Suffer ignominy
• See Home Counties resist drop in standing
• See upstanding English eating places get humiliated
• Be embarrassed, humiliated
• Suffer disgrace
• Eat crow
• Suffer a reduction in prestige
• Catching a cold, feel so bad — be humiliated