Food miles

[Davidc]

Is that the same as Nobber?

I only ask as I get very confused with the meanings of some of the technical words on here like bonking and stuff

No, just means filthy rich on a level with merchant bankers AFAIK

 

[EltonFrog]

Putting the sugar (mine is Silver Spoon) aside, I made jam last week with blackberries and apples gathered at my workplace - about a mile and a quarter from my flat.

However, the blackberries had been taken over to NT's to store in his freezer, and then brought back, so they've done 140 miles more than the apples - 70 by train, 70 by car.

I made crab apple jelly yesterday, with crab apples gathered from the Dean's Park next to the Minster. About 500 yards away.

I have made 77 jars of plum, plum and port, and plum and elderberry jam plus rhubarb and ginger marmalade this week. All the fruit came from my back garden, all the jars have been given to me by various folk. The sugar and port I don't kow where it came from and I don't give a bollix.

I keep a few jars for meself I give the rest away around the village.

Edit: I have just realised that this should be in the mundane thread.

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

A sprinkling of white sugar (no FairTrade Cuban sugar in the Co-Op) so it's probably sugar beet from Kinton (a big growing area in Shropshire) about 30 miles away. No milk involved.

There's a big difference between probably sugar beet and definitely sugar beet.

If it's Silver Spoon then it's British sugar with no guarantee of locality of source the four processing processing plants are all further than thirty miles from Llangollen. Wissington, Newark, Bury St Edmunds and Cantley are the locations of the factories. Then post processing there's the distribution chain to take into account.

If it's not Silver Spoon then it's from overseas with an even greater food mileage.

As above; since the beet factories at Kidderminster and Walcot closed, all the beet now goes the other side of the country for processing before being shipped back. Not much beet grown in Shropshire now as a result.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Milky Way beats that, but only in some hideous game of Top Trumps.

I really do wish they still sold 'Hubble Bubble' bubblegum. Just think of the truly mind bending amounts of light years that stuff might have travelled over the past millions/billions of years!!
Say, is there a Bubble Nebula?

I'll get me coat.

 

[vernon]

[QUOTE 2678154, member: 1314"]Samosas, curries and kebabs from Tooting, 6 miles away. innit.[/quote]

Are samosas easy to make?

I fancy trying my hand at them using the filling that I use for Indian potato pie.

 

[vernon]

[QUOTE 2678194, member: 1314"]Yeah - you can buy ready made pastry, then just deep fry, gently. (Though all my extended lot buy them ready made as the standard is just so good.)

And remember the dips are just as important - go for some chilli; raita; and tamarind options. All 3 are easily home-made. Tamarind can be bought as a pulp, softened in hot water, then sieved to release the juice.[/quote]

Is it filo pastry? It's not something that I'd consider doing on a regular basis. I'm just curious whether or not I can do it successfully. There's a newsagents on my way home from work that sells fantastic samosas and I often find myself deliberately going home the long way to avoid it and temptation.

I suppose that would count as non-food miles.

 

[vernon]

[QUOTE 2678262, member: 1314"]Not puff. I'd go for filo if you want thin and crisp.

Or for home-made:

http://xawaash.com/?p=3412#sthash.s7mwdRrw.dpbs[/quote]

Stand by for samosa making bulletins.

 

[ComedyPilot]

Stand by for samosa making bulletins.

Well, the firefighters have finished their strike action....

 

[Noodley]

I really do wish they still sold 'Hubble Bubble' bubblegum.

Hubba Bubba

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Hubba Bubba

Don't ruin it!!

 

[vernon]

Don't ruin it!!

Too late.