Flowery food descriptions: 'hand baked'

[Davidc]

Sea Bass. It used to be plain bass when I went sea fishing then West End chefs found that the foodies would pay more for it if they called it Sea Bass to make it sound a bit more exotic.

As Uncle Mort says, it differentiates it from the freshwater species.

All of the advertising just tries to make space between traditionally cooked food and the mass-produced muck. That's really not difficult but sometimes the hype goets in the way.

As I've often posted before I like home cooked food, and cook a fair bit myself. However when eating out I look for simple, interesting, traditional in-house cooked food. There are a small number of restaurants I return to. I can tell if their bread has no more than 2g per kg salt. I can taste the difference between frozen fish and fresh. I'm fussy. If a restaurant doesn't produce the goods I don't go back.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

There are a small number of restaurants I return to. I can tell if their bread has no more than 2g per kg salt... If a restaurant doesn't produce the goods I don't go back.

Yeah I'd be furious if they put such a stingy amount of salt in too.

 

[Bluebell72]

'Enrobed'

 

[Hover Fly]

"Drizzled"

 

[Davidc]

Yeah I'd be furious if they put such a stingy amount of salt in too.

No taste then. Any more than 2g/kg and you have bread tasting of seawater. Almost all comercial bread is vile and mainly because of excess salt.

 

[Maz]

"Selected Potatoes"...well hey! How else did they get into the supermarket? Walk in by themselves, did they?

 

[vernon]

No taste then. Any more than 2g/kg and you have bread tasting of seawater. Almost all comercial bread is vile and mainly because of excess salt.

My threshold is 1.85g/kg.

It used to be 1.89g/kg but I packed in smoking and my sense of taste returned.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Ever since my operation last year, I have been told by the Doctor to eat more salt as I loose it more easily now - digestion and all that.

Having gone from putting little salt on my food to having salt with most meals is crap to say the least!


Roll on my reversive surgery!!

 

[Milo]

Out of interest why is that?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Out of interest why is that?

No large intestine. Its a bit of a drastic measure for being able to put more salt on your chips though

 

[Tim Bennet.]

I can taste the difference between frozen fish and fresh

I presume you mean that you can tell the fresh fish tasted worse? If not, you're on your own! On one of these 'where does food come from programs', every one of the testers, including Michelin stared chefs, fishmongers, fishermen and food critics, all said the frozen fish that was processed at sea and frozen there tasted better than any 'fresh' fish they had.


'Fresh fish' includes not only stuff landed by small boats within hours of catching it, but stuff from all the larger boats that keep the fish on ice for a week while they continue to fish, then travel two days to get back to Peterhead or somewhere, a morning laying around in the fish market, a lorry journey to the wholesaler, and then it sits around in supermarkets for up to three days. Fresh? And a lot of the 'fresh' local shell fish in harbour front restaurants in France come from Scotland.


The best tasting fish (small local boats excluded) is stuff handled by huge factory ships that has it deep frozen within hours of catching it. The same with peas. And the same company has the technology to do both well.

 

[yello]

How else did they get into the supermarket? Walk in by themselves, did they?

If we're to believe that advert for frozen food, then yes they did. 'Only the freshest, youngest get selected' they'd say to cartoon images of old vegetables on walking sticks trying to get in but being locked out. I hated that advert. Gave me nightmares.

 

[Doseone]

"Jus" is the one that annoys me most. Its gravy FFS.

 

[Cheddar George]

My wife ordered a "home made fishermans pie" at our local Marstons pub. " Oh, this a new line for us and I have to tell you that it's not actually home made .... is that OK ?"

 

[Archie_tect]

"potato puree"..... Tsk!