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British food?
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User169
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Yummy fresh-baked bread in Belgium..
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
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- Armonmy Way
awfulquiet
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Haven't been around much in those countries, have you ?
Maz
Guru
Is the bread supposed to be black?
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
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- Meanwood, Leeds
There are some wonderful butchers around if you spend time looking for them.
@Noodley will attest to the quality of the one in Boroughbridge and I use several others that have caught my eye during the creation of my pie chart.
It's a bit impractical for me to cart around a pannier full of meat and meet products from each foray and I was sorely tempted by some of the butchers that I spotted while doing the Way of the Roses ride last weekend. I think a drive out into Wharfedale and Nidderdale is called for.
@Noodley will attest to the quality of the one in Boroughbridge and I use several others that have caught my eye during the creation of my pie chart.
It's a bit impractical for me to cart around a pannier full of meat and meet products from each foray and I was sorely tempted by some of the butchers that I spotted while doing the Way of the Roses ride last weekend. I think a drive out into Wharfedale and Nidderdale is called for.
theloafer
Legendary Member
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- newton aycliffe
Chris Norton
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- Boston, Lincs
Thing that amazes me is that people believe that us butchers are pricier than the supermarkets. Chances are we are actually cheaper. That nice honey roast ham, boiled for 4 hours in a copper, skinned whilst still warm by the beekeeper who then cuts the fat diagonally, skewers the meat, then smothers it with honey from his hives less than a mile away then coats that in light brown sugar. It's then roasted for an hour being basted every 15 minutes. Once cooked it is then basted every ten minutes untill cool enough to go into the fridge.
And all that for about 9 quid a kilo less than Asda's honey roast ham (and not the premium type).
Give your local butcher a try. Please.
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User482
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Butcher's best ham of the type you describe is more expensive than the mechanically recovered "formed from" junk supermarkets sell. Same deal with the sausages you make yourselves and supermarket "pig lips and a-hole specials". People often don't realise the difference in quality.
The big advantage butchers have on price is through selling the sort of cuts that are difficult to buy in the supermarkets. I love a nice shin of beef stew...
Monsieur
Senior member
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- Lincolnshire
I can't defend British food per se but I reckon the choice of food in Britain is far better than anywhere else in the world.
I've travelled extensively in the EU and other parts of the world and the quality and availability of 'world' foods is much better here.
I live in Lincoln, a small city in the middle of the flatlands, and I can have my fill of indian, chinese, polish, lithuanian, turkish, russian, greek, french, italian etc etc from within a 5 mile radius of my home.
Try that in other parts of thye world
I've travelled extensively in the EU and other parts of the world and the quality and availability of 'world' foods is much better here.
I live in Lincoln, a small city in the middle of the flatlands, and I can have my fill of indian, chinese, polish, lithuanian, turkish, russian, greek, french, italian etc etc from within a 5 mile radius of my home.
Try that in other parts of thye world
Shut Up Legs
Down Under Member
I can relate to that. The only food I can think of as "Australian" is what the native Aborigines ate (and some still eat), e.g. witchety-grubs, etc. Haven't been game* to try them myself, though. In general, Australia does seem to have a more multicultural mix of foods than it did several decades ago, though.
* pun intended.
srw
It's a bit more complicated than that...
There is some very fine very dark bread in Belgium - often studded with seeds. I think it's a mixture of wholemeal and rye, and somehow they manage to get it to rise.
Ghost Donkey
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There's a good fish monger in Wigston outside Wilkinsons if you're in that part of Leicester or passing through. They have good quality fish and game. They even gave me a good recipe for cooking rabit.
We make most of our food from scratch. It was trickier with young children of different ages but now they're all a bit older it's easier to get them involved rather than trying to keep them out of the way. I'm trying to get good at cooking beans, lentils etc to cut down on our outdoor reared, grass fed meat bills! Worth paying for but not cheap.
