The Royals
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You would have if Phillip hadn't popped his clogs.oblongomaculatus said:
Never seen it.blazing_saddles said:
Time to move on and cook that winning Masterchef meal.oblongomaculatus said:
Really? Maybe they did. All 109,000 of them, including mine. A new record, nearly twice as many as the next most complained about thing.kingstongraham said:
They're only showing the funeral on one bbc channel. That's progress, and the complaints maybe helped with that decision.oblongomaculatus said:I was sufficiently annoyed by the BBC blanket coverage to complain last week. I've just received a response, apparently sent to everyone who complained. You can probably guess the substance, but anyway, here it is
The passing of HRH the Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh was a significant event which generated a lot of interest both nationally and internationally.
We acknowledge your complaint about the level of coverage, particularly in relation to the BBC News Special simultaneously broadcasting on BBC One and Two on Friday 9 April. We do not make such changes to billed schedules without careful consideration.
The decisions made reflect the role the BBC plays as the national broadcaster, during moments of national significance.
We are grateful for your feedback, and we always listen to the response from our audiences. Your comments have been shared with senior management.
Or in other words, up yours.The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
What's the problem with Masterchef?blazing_saddles said:
Time to move on and cook that winning Masterchef meal.oblongomaculatus said:
Really? Maybe they did. All 109,000 of them, including mine. A new record, nearly twice as many as the next most complained about thing.kingstongraham said:
They're only showing the funeral on one bbc channel. That's progress, and the complaints maybe helped with that decision.oblongomaculatus said:I was sufficiently annoyed by the BBC blanket coverage to complain last week. I've just received a response, apparently sent to everyone who complained. You can probably guess the substance, but anyway, here it is
The passing of HRH the Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh was a significant event which generated a lot of interest both nationally and internationally.
We acknowledge your complaint about the level of coverage, particularly in relation to the BBC News Special simultaneously broadcasting on BBC One and Two on Friday 9 April. We do not make such changes to billed schedules without careful consideration.
The decisions made reflect the role the BBC plays as the national broadcaster, during moments of national significance.
We are grateful for your feedback, and we always listen to the response from our audiences. Your comments have been shared with senior management.
Or in other words, up yours.
It's 2.5 hours a week on one channel for a few weeks and maybe some viewers take inspiration and improve their eating habits, which can only be a good thing in a nation that up to 20 years ago could barely reheat food from a tin. Programs like that (and many others of course ) have done a lot, in my opinion. Don't think that people knew what celeriac was... I still remember when I moved to the UK and all you could buy, in terms of fresh veg, were potatoes, carrots, onions and cabbage...left the forum March 20231 -
Was this during rationing ugo?- Genesis Croix de Fer
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Just after...pangolin said:Was this during rationing ugo?
It was 21 years ago, but outside of London. In London you could already buy everything, but supermarkets in Sheffield were so basic...
To find some decent veg, we had to go to a hippy Vegan shop (before it was fashionable!) called Beanies... apparently it still exists, now they even have a posh website
https://www.beanieswholefoods.co.uk/left the forum March 20230 -
My mother came over about 30 years ago or so.ugo.santalucia said:
Just after...pangolin said:Was this during rationing ugo?
It was 21 years ago, but outside of London. In London you could already buy everything, but supermarkets in Sheffield were so basic...
To find some decent veg, we had to go to a hippy Vegan shop (before it was fashionable!) called Beanies... apparently it still exists, now they even have a posh website
https://www.beanieswholefoods.co.uk/
Can confirm she felt the same.0 -
You could get loads of different veg 21 years ago in our supermarkets in surrey, i was working in one! Veggies I'd never heard of at the time, like moolies!
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That'll be the around the year 2000 then?elbowloh said:You could get loads of different veg 21 years ago in our supermarkets in surrey, i was working in one! Veggies I'd never heard of at the time, like moolies!
I reckon things changed for the better during the '90s.
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
I remember moolies from the mid 90's ( my mum worked there then)pblakeney said:
That'll be the around the year 2000 then?elbowloh said:You could get loads of different veg 21 years ago in our supermarkets in surrey, i was working in one! Veggies I'd never heard of at the time, like moolies!
I reckon things changed for the better during the '90s.0 -
Had to google what a moolie was.elbowloh said:
I remember moolies from the mid 90's ( my mum worked there then)pblakeney said:
That'll be the around the year 2000 then?elbowloh said:You could get loads of different veg 21 years ago in our supermarkets in surrey, i was working in one! Veggies I'd never heard of at the time, like moolies!
I reckon things changed for the better during the '90s.
First hit, US derogatory term for a black person, derived from eggplant (i.e. aubergine), is that right?0 -
I can cope with an Italian sneering at our cuisine but not the Dutch.rick_chasey said:
My mother came over about 30 years ago or so.ugo.santalucia said:
Just after...pangolin said:Was this during rationing ugo?
It was 21 years ago, but outside of London. In London you could already buy everything, but supermarkets in Sheffield were so basic...
To find some decent veg, we had to go to a hippy Vegan shop (before it was fashionable!) called Beanies... apparently it still exists, now they even have a posh website
https://www.beanieswholefoods.co.uk/
Can confirm she felt the same.
Down south things got better in the early 90s0 -
Haha.surrey_commuter said:
I can cope with an Italian sneering at our cuisine but not the Dutch.rick_chasey said:
My mother came over about 30 years ago or so.ugo.santalucia said:
Just after...pangolin said:Was this during rationing ugo?
It was 21 years ago, but outside of London. In London you could already buy everything, but supermarkets in Sheffield were so basic...
To find some decent veg, we had to go to a hippy Vegan shop (before it was fashionable!) called Beanies... apparently it still exists, now they even have a posh website
https://www.beanieswholefoods.co.uk/
Can confirm she felt the same.
Down south things got better in the early 90s
She had a blazing row with a friend's mother when she heard she'd fed me coca cola and fairy cakes aged 4.
She was *horrified* when she heard that kids were given sweets when we went on school trips and not fruit or sandwiches.
She could not believe how unhealthily children were fed here.0 -
Sounds like a social class thing
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No.rick_chasey said:
Had to google what a moolie was.elbowloh said:
I remember moolies from the mid 90's ( my mum worked there then)pblakeney said:
That'll be the around the year 2000 then?elbowloh said:You could get loads of different veg 21 years ago in our supermarkets in surrey, i was working in one! Veggies I'd never heard of at the time, like moolies!
I reckon things changed for the better during the '90s.
First hit, US derogatory term for a black person, derived from eggplant (i.e. aubergine), is that right?
Its like a long white radish. More commonly called a daikon now, with the rise in Vietnamese restaurants in the UK.0 -
We certainly weren't given sweets!rick_chasey said:
Haha.surrey_commuter said:
I can cope with an Italian sneering at our cuisine but not the Dutch.rick_chasey said:
My mother came over about 30 years ago or so.ugo.santalucia said:
Just after...pangolin said:Was this during rationing ugo?
It was 21 years ago, but outside of London. In London you could already buy everything, but supermarkets in Sheffield were so basic...
To find some decent veg, we had to go to a hippy Vegan shop (before it was fashionable!) called Beanies... apparently it still exists, now they even have a posh website
https://www.beanieswholefoods.co.uk/
Can confirm she felt the same.
Down south things got better in the early 90s
She had a blazing row with a friend's mother when she heard she'd fed me coca cola and fairy cakes aged 4.
She was *horrified* when she heard that kids were given sweets when we went on school trips and not fruit or sandwiches.
She could not believe how unhealthily children were fed here.0 -
lol sheffield the place that gave us the full monty. by the time ugo arrived there were already vegan shops. i think he doth protest too much.ugo.santalucia said:
Just after...pangolin said:Was this during rationing ugo?
It was 21 years ago, but outside of London. In London you could already buy everything, but supermarkets in Sheffield were so basic...
To find some decent veg, we had to go to a hippy Vegan shop (before it was fashionable!) called Beanies... apparently it still exists, now they even have a posh website
https://www.beanieswholefoods.co.uk/
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Aubergines surely became popular in the UK in the late 70s when mousaka became popular!
Plenty of veggie and vegans around in the 1980s in the UK. Far easier to be one in the UK than it was in the likes of France at the time.0 -
Hmmmm I can remember eating a wider range of vegetables in my youth than some of you seem to remember being available and I'm certainly older than Ugo. Cauliflower, Brussels, Parsnips, Radishes, Turnip, Broccoli, French Beans, Peas, Aubergine and Courgette to add to the list were all common. But why would you want them when you could have a Vesta Chow Mein and a slice of Arctic Roll for dessert?
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Dorset_Boy said:
Aubergines surely became popular in the UK in the late 70s when mousaka became popular!
Plenty of veggie and vegans around in the 1980s in the UK. Far easier to be one in the UK than it was in the likes of France at the time.
The writer George Orwell maintained that Letchworth and Welwyn Garden City were inhabited by feminists, sandal-wearers, yoga enthusiasts and “fruit-juice-drinkers”. Such people seemed more alarming in the 1930s than they do today.0 -
All stuff hard to get hold of in Sheffield in 2000...DeVlaeminck said:Hmmmm I can remember eating a wider range of vegetables in my youth than some of you seem to remember being available and I'm certainly older than Ugo. Cauliflower, Brussels, Parsnips, Radishes, Turnip, Broccoli, French Beans, Peas, Aubergine and Courgette to add to the list were all common. But why would you want them when you could have a Vesta Chow Mein and a slice of Arctic Roll for dessert?
Point is that it's only thanks to programs like Masterchef, and Jamie Oliver and Mary Berry and stuff that people got back in the kitchen... the diabetes bill to the NHS would be a lot steeper otherwise...
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Turnips were available in Regency times for sure. Saw it in Blackadder.
All those veggies listed were available when i was a child in the 80s! I know as they were all put on my plate at various times and i refused to eat them all.1 -
Maybe they were available, certainly swede was available... but nobody wanted to eat turnips... I mean, who wants to eat turnips?elbowloh said:Turnips were available in Regency times for sure. Saw it in Blackadder.
All those veggies listed were available when i was a child in the 80s! I know as they were all put on my plate at various times and i refused to eat them all.left the forum March 20230 -
The Scottish.ugo.santalucia said:
Maybe they were available, certainly swede was available... but nobody wanted to eat turnips... I mean, who wants to eat turnips?elbowloh said:Turnips were available in Regency times for sure. Saw it in Blackadder.
All those veggies listed were available when i was a child in the 80s! I know as they were all put on my plate at various times and i refused to eat them all.0 -
YEah, but they eat haggis - which means they'll eat anything. Like the French.mrb123 said:
The Scottish.ugo.santalucia said:
Maybe they were available, certainly swede was available... but nobody wanted to eat turnips... I mean, who wants to eat turnips?elbowloh said:Turnips were available in Regency times for sure. Saw it in Blackadder.
All those veggies listed were available when i was a child in the 80s! I know as they were all put on my plate at various times and i refused to eat them all.
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So, it's a good thing that cookery programmes got women back in the kitchen.ugo.santalucia said:
All stuff hard to get hold of in Sheffield in 2000...DeVlaeminck said:Hmmmm I can remember eating a wider range of vegetables in my youth than some of you seem to remember being available and I'm certainly older than Ugo. Cauliflower, Brussels, Parsnips, Radishes, Turnip, Broccoli, French Beans, Peas, Aubergine and Courgette to add to the list were all common. But why would you want them when you could have a Vesta Chow Mein and a slice of Arctic Roll for dessert?
Point is that it's only thanks to programs like Masterchef, and Jamie Oliver and Mary Berry and stuff that people got back in the kitchen... the diabetes bill to the NHS would be a lot steeper otherwise...
That is somewhat different from the pointless roll to roll repetition of the achievements of a privileged old man
Good luck with that around here.
I think the big difference in fruit and veg when I was a lad was that there was plenty of choice, but everything was seasonal."Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.1 -
That's what you said... as a matter of fact, there are probably more men entering Masterchef than women, certainly more male finalists than female.blazing_saddles said:
So, it's a good thing that cookery programmes got women back in the kitchen.ugo.santalucia said:
All stuff hard to get hold of in Sheffield in 2000...DeVlaeminck said:Hmmmm I can remember eating a wider range of vegetables in my youth than some of you seem to remember being available and I'm certainly older than Ugo. Cauliflower, Brussels, Parsnips, Radishes, Turnip, Broccoli, French Beans, Peas, Aubergine and Courgette to add to the list were all common. But why would you want them when you could have a Vesta Chow Mein and a slice of Arctic Roll for dessert?
Point is that it's only thanks to programs like Masterchef, and Jamie Oliver and Mary Berry and stuff that people got back in the kitchen... the diabetes bill to the NHS would be a lot steeper otherwise...
That is somewhat different from the pointless roll to roll repetition of the achievements of a privileged old man
Good luck with that around here.
There are more male chefs in Great British Menu by quite some margin.
There are 50/50 in Great British Bake off
Basically, I don't WTF you are talking about...
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If it wasn't for our current foodie ways and desire for avocados young people would famously be able to afford to get on the property ladder.2
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and the weather would be coolerJezyboy said:If it wasn't for our current foodie ways and desire for avocados young people would famously be able to afford to get on the property ladder.
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Probably not... the ratio of average house price / average salary has increased quite a lot.Jezyboy said:If it wasn't for our current foodie ways and desire for avocados young people would famously be able to afford to get on the property ladder.
Just in my profession, a young academic in the 1970-80s could afford a 4 bed semi- or detached, whereas now they can afford a 2 bed flat or a terraced, depending on the area. In London the difference is more stark.
The house prices are pumped by the availability of cheap credit, which has very little to do with disposable income. If you did spend less on food or Netflix, you would still get access to the same credit and the amount you can squirrel up as deposit would be peanuts anyway and make zero difference. If you saved £ 100 a month in food bill, which is a lot by any standard, in ten years you'd have 12 grand, which is less than 5% of the value of a property... in 10 years... peanuts...left the forum March 20230
