Food miles

[Cycling Naturalist]

Just been totting it up.
Gloucester Old Spot belly pork - 5 miles
Potatoes - 1 mile
Caramellised apple slices - 30 metres
Sage - 15 metres
Not sure about the green vegetables, but they tend to be Lancashire - so 80 miles.

One's choices are limited when there's no Waitrose with Organic Fair Trade Quinoa locally.

 

[vernon]

Yawn.

 

[Spinney]

Just been totting it up.
Gloucester Old Spot belly pork - 5 miles
Potatoes - 1 mile
Caramellised apple slices - 30 metres
Sage - 15 metres
Not sure about the green vegetables, but they tend to be Lancashire - so 80 miles.

One's choices are limited when there's no Waitrose with Organic Fair Trade Quinoa locally.

What are those, then? Caramellised usually involves sugar, so are you saying that that the sugar was grown within 30 metres? Any fat involved? Did the cows live within 30 metres of your home? And did the milk come directly to you for butter making, or was the farm where the butter was made also within 30 metres of your home? Or if the fat was oil, were the olives also grown in your garden?

 

[TVC]

Pork pie 3 miles
Walkers Crisps 2 miles
Everards Old Original Ale 1 mile

 

[Aperitif]

Patrick. Like a hayrick, but the last straw...

 

[vernon]

Pork pie 3 miles
Walkers Crisps 2 miles
Everards Old Original Ale 1 mile

Pork pie - 300 yards or ten feet from my computer desk if I make it myself.
Elderberry wine - twenty feet from the front door.
Rhubarb wine - fifteen feet from the back door.
Sage - kitchen window sill

 

[mark st1]

Dominos. 14 ft to the front door.

 

[Cycling Naturalist]

What are those, then? Caramellised usually involves sugar, so are you saying that that the sugar was grown within 30 metres? Any fat involved? Did the cows live within 30 metres of your home? And did the milk come directly to you for butter making, or was the farm where the butter was made also within 30 metres of your home? Or if the fat was oil, were the olives also grown in your garden?

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.

 

[Spinney]

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.

Ok, I'll let you off then!

 

[Davidc]

What are those, then? Caramellised usually involves sugar, so are you saying that that the sugar was grown within 30 metres?

Caramelisation always involves sugar, it is the oxidation of mono and di saccharides. Those sugars do not have to come from refined sugar. Apples, if sweet enough, pears, plums, and many more fruits can be caramelised using their own sugars with none added. Patrick could have only had 30m of food travel for his caramelised apples if he'd tried. I've done it with Worcesters which have a very high sugar content and taste wonderful caramelised under a grill.

A good example of this process is caramelised onions. When heated the starch (a long polymer made from glucose units), which makes up much of the onion, is broken into the disaccharide maltose (2 glucose units) which is then oxidised. It produces the lovely sweet malty tasting brown caramelised onion, with uses such as onion gravy for bangers and mash suppers.

edited following patick's admission of using added sugar....

 

[vernon]

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.

 

[vernon]

I wonder what the food mileage is for the can of worms that Patrick has opened.

 

[Crackle]

Stuff, from somewhere...... I wonder how long it's journey will be when it leaves me.....there's a joke in there about 'caring' about this thread, but.....

 

[classic33]

Patrick. Like a hayrick, but the last straw...

You don't make a hayrick out of straw!

 

[Aperitif]

You don't make a hayrick out of straw!

Only you are saying one has, it seems... Great avatar by the way - 'selfie', or just got lucky?