Championing Proper British Food and Drink
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And Rattler. Wey-hey, we have a party 🥳🍻🎉
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I feel the same way about root vegetables. Bought a Cabbage the other day. Only ones in stock were from Spain! For goodness sake what happened to our vegetable growing? I know we have problems from time to time with weather but Europe has similar problems.
Why fly NZ lamb all the way across the globe? Last time I looked out of the window here in Wales there was a sheep gazing back at me. She has lots of friends.😁
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Most of the people who pick fruit & veg have gone home leaving stuff to rot in the fields......just another consequence of the thing we dare not mention on here. Expect crops that are largely harvested by mechanical means in the future.
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WN, we watched a documentary on veg/salad growing in Spain. Workers live in unbelievably shocking conditions, and the area is an ecological disaster from all the plastic waste.
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But not on the uncontrolled commercial scales in Europe. producing watery, tasteless food but of a conformity size which seem to be the only mantra. As previous why do we need to import cabbages at this time of year for goodness sake. Madness
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‘Taint my recollection of the food of my childhood thankfully. My Mum was a cook and a half, always experimenting, and lots of decent cook books in the house to trawl through. She had a good friend who was Polish, they originally had a mobile fruit and veg business (gorgeous old single decker bus) and then they opened a lovely Deli in our town, so we sampled some quite exotic fare pre Europe days. All the family had a big allotment each, even keeping chickens, turkeys, the occasional pig. So we were quite happy food wise. Nothing like as much choice of course, and veg/fruit much more seasonal, but I think overall we were healthier, with less salt, less saturated fats and sugar.
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Thankfully the pig keeping had ended by the time I came along, so it wasn’t something I ever (thankfully) witnessed. But Saturday afternoon saw the occasional surplus chicken breathe it’s last. Drawn and dressed for a Sunday roast. Those days I never batted an eyelid, it was just something I grew up with, and they had lived a very nice life before becoming dinner. Veggie now though, (all bar fish).
I think most Mum’s, and the odd Dad were far better cooks back then. They had to be. No microwaves or takeaways in my childhood, beyond the odd fish and chip shop. There were no overweight children either as I recall at school. Conversely, I don’t recall many on free school dinners either. We have become a nation of extremes.☹️
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Well I'm descended from a pig farmer on one side and a gamekeeper on the other but we had very simple food in our home and my mother was not a good cook. When she retired she started to enjoy cooking. I had a french boyfriend at one stage and he will probably remember all the egg and chips presented to him...I still cringe at the thought.
(It probably confirmed his worst ideas about British food.)I can remember seeing avocados on trips to London, they were a totally alien species but I love them now unfortunately they're not on the uk growing list.
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😱 Before we were married, I often had Sunday lunch with OH’s family. One of his brother’s worked for a pig farmer, and the family bought half a pig. For some reason they decided to roast the half head one particular day. Apparently it was too much for me and I had to leave the table rather shaky. I think that’s when I realised meat was no longer for me...... That and another Butcher BIL chasing me around with a severed pig’s ear!
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A big +1 there. The queues there during the October half term were the longest I've ever seen, and not just because of the 2m rule either
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Fish, with due respect I know of quite a few farmers who use treated human waste on the land because it is both natural & very cheap give me that rather than man made chemicals any day, it’s marketed as ultimate recycling at its best. If the scientists, Govt & the farmers say it’s good then I’m happy. I’ve been eating the veg & fruit it produces since it has been available👍🏻
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When my daughter got a Christmas job in Poundland a few years back we would go in and ask her while she was self stacking - how much is this? and that? that one? what about this? you mean everything's a pound wow that is good value.
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I think it goes back to pre history actually😉 Never stayed on a farm yet where the effluent wasn’t recycled. We used to sell bags of it back when we had a horse😂
Mind, you can definitely tell when it’s human rather than animal that is being spread🤢
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I remember being young when the lad from the local stables used to come round selling horse-poo for the garden. They used to say it was all hand picked
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