British food?

[Hitchington]

I don't disagree with the sentiment, but you overstate it just a trifle I think,.

I don't think so, but I'm sure you'll gateau-ver it.

 

[mustang1]

Thankfully farmers markets have become popular again so that we can buy good local produce. Supermarket stuff can be very lacking sometimes. Bad meals are just bad quality food and chef. Here in Leicester good fish can be hard to come by, the fish market isn't all that good and again supermarket stuff isn't too brilliant.

There is a farmers market next to my office every couple of weeks. While I'm happy they exist as it promotes competition, I find their food over priced and of low quality compared to what I get at an regular Prey. Still, I'm glad that I can choose variety every couple of weeks. Idk if that particular farmers market is rubbish, the food is cooked rubbish, or farmers markets really are rubbish.

 

[dellzeqq]

Nothing wrong with sandwiches

 

[vernon]

The original poster is confusing opinion with fact.

French pies are crap. Fact.

 

[Lullabelle]

I see Jamie Oliver is in the news again regarding poverty. To a point I do agree with some of what he says, on the news you see people complaining about money being tight but some of them have a take away bag in their hand, those things aren't cheap. On 1 of his programmes a father slagged Jamie off for not being in the real world and not understanding how hard things are, this guy had a pint in 1 hand and a ciggie in the other. If you can afford to burn your money and p**s it up a wall then you can't be that hard up! I now this doesn't include everyone but some people have their priorities very wrong, maybe some are just lazy, but it is an issue that needs to be tackled, how can we have poverty in this country when we have a benefit system etc...

 

[Lullabelle]

There is a farmers market next to my office every couple of weeks. While I'm happy they exist as it promotes competition, I find their food over priced and of low quality compared to what I get at an regular Prey. Still, I'm glad that I can choose variety every couple of weeks. Idk if that particular farmers market is rubbish, the food is cooked rubbish, or farmers markets really are rubbish.

That is a shame as ours are really good, the meat is about the same price as a supermarket but better quality. Supermarkets are particular about what they well, our farmers markets sell eggs with poo and feathers still on them, veg with dirt and live bugs on them, very fresh, rabbits and cuts of meat that s'markets can't sell but are actually really good cuts if you know what to do with them. At least with a market you can ask the farmer how to prep and cook a particular cut, you can't do that from a s'market as they don't always have a decent butcher, they may know how to butcher the meat but not necessarily how to cook it.

 

[dellzeqq]

I see Jamie Oliver is in the news again regarding poverty. To a point I do agree with some of what he says, on the news you see people complaining about money being tight but some of them have a take away bag in their hand, those things aren't cheap. On 1 of his programmes a father slagged Jamie off for not being in the real world and not understanding how hard things are, this guy had a pint in 1 hand and a ciggie in the other. If you can afford to burn your money and p**s it up a wall then you can't be that hard up! I now this doesn't include everyone but some people have their priorities very wrong, maybe some are just lazy, but it is an issue that needs to be tackled, how can we have poverty in this country when we have a benefit system etc...

there's a great bit in 'The Road to Wigan Pier' where Orwell discusses cigarette smoking. I can't find a searchable edition, but the gist of it is this - for those scant moments when you take your first drag on a cigarette, you are Carole Lombard or Claude Rains. And that is the high spot of your week. Orwell thought that those with means who looked down on poor people who smoked simply lacked moral imagination - and I make him right.

The irony is that smoking killed him.........

 

[Milo]

To be fair fags cost nothing then compared to today. Nearly a tenner a packet now I think.

 

[User482]

there's a great bit in 'The Road to Wigan Pier' where Orwell discusses cigarette smoking. I can't find a searchable edition, but the gist of it is this - for those scant moments when you take your first drag on a cigarette, you are Carole Lombard or Claude Rains. And that is the high spot of your week. Orwell thought that those with means who looked down on poor people who smoked simply lacked moral imagination - and I make him right.

The irony is that smoking killed him.........

There's also this:

"And the peculiar evil is this, that the less money you have, the less inclined you feel to spend it on wholesome food. A millionaire may enjoy breakfasting off orange juice and Ryvita biscuits; an unemployed man doesn't. Here the tendency of which I spoke at the end of the last chapter comes into play. When you are unemployed, which is to say when you are underfed, harassed, bored, and miserable, you don't want to eat dull wholesome food. You want something a little bit 'tasty'. There is
always some cheaply pleasant thing to tempt you. Let's have three pennorth of chips! Run out and buy us a twopenny ice-cream! Put the kettle on and we'll all have a nice cup of tea!"

 

[User482]

I've travelled pretty extensively and I've yet to find another country that offers a comparable range of good quality food. Sure, we may not have an overt food culture, but the benefit of this is that we're not chauvinistic about importing the best bits of everyone else's.

And there's really no reason to feel inferior to the French: a nation that has no word for custard, and considers pig colon to be a foodstuff, isn't to be trusted.

 

[Milo]

We win at pudding imo.

 

[srw]

And there's really no reason to feel inferior to the French: a nation that has no word for custard, and considers pig colon to be a foodstuff, isn't to be trusted.

Tell 'em at home that I should like for supper, – well, lamb's fry if they can get it; and if they can't, black-pot; and if they can't get that, well, chitterlings will do.

Thomas Hardy - Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

Funnily enough, my experience is otherwise the same as yours - we make good stuff because we don't have a history of quality food, so we import ideas at will. The French make fantastic food, but just don't get spice.

There are also many things Britain does well on her own account - apples, beer, asparagus, and pace User482, ways to cook offal.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Thomas Hardy - Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

Funnily enough, my experience is otherwise the same as yours - we make good stuff because we don't have a history of quality food, so we import ideas at will. The French make fantastic food, but just don't get spice.

There are also many things Britain does well on her own account - apples, beer, asparagus, and pace User482, ways to cook offal.

Though working in France and installed in an auberge, we did introduce chilli sauce to the chef and he couldn't get enough of it. Though it was always called ''la sauce qui pique.''

 

[srw]

I remember my first visit to Paris with no money, and living off takeaway sandwich grec avec sauce piquante - pork kebabs with chips in pitta bread, with chilli sauce.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

[QUOTE 2620365, member: 259"]"Sauce Anglaise" is much beloved by French chefs. It's probably because they can't pronounce "Worcestershire" properly. [/quote]

It has to be said we aren't exactly making it easy! Ouaste Sorce?

It's funny what gains the epithet ''anglais'' - custard, safety pins, adjustable spanners and perfidy.