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What I'm hearing is money spent on avocado is money saved on Central heating.surrey_commuter said:
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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Neeps are Swedes I think - we used to have neeps and tatties all the time as kids and I'm pretty sure it was mostly orange which would be swede?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.
Turnips were more for making lanterns out of on Bonfire night - none of this pumpkin nonsense back then.[Castle Donington Ladies FC - going up in '22]0 -
A vexed question it seems...DeVlaeminck said:
Neeps are Swedes I think - we used to have neeps and tatties all the time as kids and I'm pretty sure it was mostly orange which would be swede?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.
Turnips were more for making lanterns out of on Bonfire night - none of this pumpkin nonsense back then.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2010/jan/25/neeps-swede-or-turnip0 -
Swede, leaks, sprouts, turnips, parsnips, cauliflower, marrows were all commonplace in my local greengrocer in the 70s. Food may have been quite basic back then but on the whole it would have been lower fat and sugar than most of the fancy stuff they cook on Masterchef. Just because something has exotic ingredients, is served with a jus and looks like a piece of modern art doesn't make it any healthier. The downfall is the massive rise in convenience food since the 80s.ugo.santalucia said:
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...0 -
I watched a few old cooking videos with michelin starred chefs.
"just use a bit of butter, not too much" - lobs a whole bar into the pan
on making mash potato: "you want about 1:1 potato : butter ratio, ideally"1 -
That's what my chef mate tells me too!shirley_basso said:I watched a few old cooking videos with michelin starred chefs.
"just use a bit of butter, not too much" - lobs a whole bar into the pan
on making mash potato: "you want about 1:1 potato : butter ratio, ideally"0 -
Yep, the amount of butter and oil that gets used in the dishes that Ugo claims helps us Brits improve our eating habits is obscene. There's a reason those sorts of meals are tasty and it it isn't entirely due to the fresh exotic ingredients.0
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You'd school trips?elbowloh said:
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.
We couldn't go anywhere....all the buses had been burnt
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I agree, fine dining is extremely unhealthy, but so is convenience food, microwave meals and take away. The idea is that through these programs, people get interested in cooking and once you have the confidence that you can cook a dish from raw ingredients, then you can progress to cook healthily.
Of course, some of these masterchef contestants went on to become 20 stones, but they would have become 20 stones anyway... by eating McDonalds instead of buttery mashleft the forum March 20230 -
Plus the 11 course tasting menu tends to be an occasional treat rather than daily dining. The portions aren't usually massive either.0
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mrb123 said:
A vexed question it seems...DeVlaeminck said:
Neeps are Swedes I think - we used to have neeps and tatties all the time as kids and I'm pretty sure it was mostly orange which would be swede?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.
Turnips were more for making lanterns out of on Bonfire night - none of this pumpkin nonsense back then.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2010/jan/25/neeps-swede-or-turnip
I admit for years I had no idea why people would talk about swede for school dinner but at home it was neeps which I took to mean turnip - but it was the same thing.
I still have never tasted celeriac that Ugo mentioned . I think my tastes were formed early from having a mum that grew up in a Scottish tenement (before they were gentrified with indoor bathrooms) before moving to a prefab council estate in her teens.
If Rick is horrified by sweets on a school trip when we used to visit my grandparents the ice cream van (Palombos) used to do 3 trips round the estate every day and at least one of those you'd get an ice cream, maybe a double nougat (Google it you'll be horrified), and a bottle of red cola (wasn't keen on Irn bru) which you'd then use some of to pour over a bit of your ice cream in a pint glass to make it all froth up.
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I found my interest in cooking through necessity and many self catering holidays in France and Italy. Those two countries improved my eating habits.Pross said:Yep, the amount of butter and oil that gets used in the dishes that Ugo claims helps us Brits improve our eating habits is obscene. There's a reason those sorts of meals are tasty and it it isn't entirely due to the fresh exotic ingredients.
Even many of the basic recipes on the BBC good food site have quantities of saturated fat that exceeds the recommended limits for several days intake.
I suspect that if I relied on cookery shows to dictate my eating habits, I would have had a heart attack by now.
It's nonsense in any case. Rank varys somewhat but the same favourite dishes feature in top 10 UK surveys now as always .
Fish and chips, curry, shepherd's pie, steak and kidney pie, roast dinner, full English etc.
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Probably more banqueting than the average serf but on the whole they're not a particularly chubby bunch I would say.rick_chasey said:
A segue back onto the royals - what are these guys eating day-in-day-out?mrb123 said:Plus the 11 course tasting menu tends to be an occasional treat rather than daily dining. The portions aren't usually massive either.
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Celeriac... it's a lot of prep work to get the thing in a state where you can boil it or roast it or whatever... then it needs a fair bit of mashing if boiled and a fair bit of fat to make it delicious...
With that amount of butter, cardboard is delicious too.left the forum March 20230 -
rick_chasey said:
A segue back onto the royals - what are these guys eating day-in-day-out?mrb123 said:Plus the 11 course tasting menu tends to be an occasional treat rather than daily dining. The portions aren't usually massive either.
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Grate it and put through coleslaw (goes nicely with apple)ugo.santalucia said:Celeriac... it's a lot of prep work to get the thing in a state where you can boil it or roast it or whatever... then it needs a fair bit of mashing if boiled and a fair bit of fat to make it delicious...
With that amount of butter, cardboard is delicious too.
Delicious through mashed potato (with a bar of salted butter)0 -
Those are all British foods surely we are talking about exotic foreign foods like the previously mentioned avocado or fresh pineapples.Pross said:
Swede, leaks, sprouts, turnips, parsnips, cauliflower, marrows were all commonplace in my local greengrocer in the 70s. Food may have been quite basic back then but on the whole it would have been lower fat and sugar than most of the fancy stuff they cook on Masterchef. Just because something has exotic ingredients, is served with a jus and looks like a piece of modern art doesn't make it any healthier. The downfall is the massive rise in convenience food since the 80s.ugo.santalucia said:
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...0 -
Tomatoes, peppers, salad other than iceberg, romanesco, sweet potatoes, pak choi, all stuff that is now grown even over here...surrey_commuter said:
Those are all British foods surely we are talking about exotic foreign foods like the previously mentioned avocado or fresh pineapples.Pross said:
Swede, leaks, sprouts, turnips, parsnips, cauliflower, marrows were all commonplace in my local greengrocer in the 70s. Food may have been quite basic back then but on the whole it would have been lower fat and sugar than most of the fancy stuff they cook on Masterchef. Just because something has exotic ingredients, is served with a jus and looks like a piece of modern art doesn't make it any healthier. The downfall is the massive rise in convenience food since the 80s.ugo.santalucia said:
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...
Same for bread, now you have a choice, often even freshly baked, at the time it was white sliced loaf or brown sliced loaf in a plastic bag... you could choose Hovis or Warburtons or the even cheaper supermarket brand one...
It was dire... I am sorry to be the one who feels let down when he doesn't find sourdough toast... but I am!
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How appropriate, that a thread about the Royal family suddenly turned into a discussion about vegetables…0
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oblongomaculatus said:
How appropriate, that a thread about the Royal family suddenly turned into a discussion about vegetables…
he thing about The Crown that did strike me the most was that the Queen never had formal education in school... I found it really oddoblongomaculatus said:How appropriate, that a thread about the Royal family suddenly turned into a discussion about vegetables…
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My folks were growing tomatoes, peppers, melon, aspargus in the early 70s in their garden & greenhouse.ugo.santalucia said:
Tomatoes, peppers, salad other than iceberg, romanesco, sweet potatoes, pak choi, all stuff that is now grown even over here...surrey_commuter said:
Those are all British foods surely we are talking about exotic foreign foods like the previously mentioned avocado or fresh pineapples.Pross said:
Swede, leaks, sprouts, turnips, parsnips, cauliflower, marrows were all commonplace in my local greengrocer in the 70s. Food may have been quite basic back then but on the whole it would have been lower fat and sugar than most of the fancy stuff they cook on Masterchef. Just because something has exotic ingredients, is served with a jus and looks like a piece of modern art doesn't make it any healthier. The downfall is the massive rise in convenience food since the 80s.ugo.santalucia said:
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...
Same for bread, now you have a choice, often even freshly baked, at the time it was white sliced loaf or brown sliced loaf in a plastic bag... you could choose Hovis or Warburtons or the even cheaper supermarket brand one...
It was dire... I am sorry to be the one who feels let down when he doesn't find sourdough toast... but I am!1 -
Are you sure you weren't living in some sort of twilight zone? Thats not how i remember it at all!ugo.santalucia said:
Tomatoes, peppers, salad other than iceberg, romanesco, sweet potatoes, pak choi, all stuff that is now grown even over here...surrey_commuter said:
Those are all British foods surely we are talking about exotic foreign foods like the previously mentioned avocado or fresh pineapples.Pross said:
Swede, leaks, sprouts, turnips, parsnips, cauliflower, marrows were all commonplace in my local greengrocer in the 70s. Food may have been quite basic back then but on the whole it would have been lower fat and sugar than most of the fancy stuff they cook on Masterchef. Just because something has exotic ingredients, is served with a jus and looks like a piece of modern art doesn't make it any healthier. The downfall is the massive rise in convenience food since the 80s.ugo.santalucia said:
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...
Same for bread, now you have a choice, often even freshly baked, at the time it was white sliced loaf or brown sliced loaf in a plastic bag... you could choose Hovis or Warburtons or the even cheaper supermarket brand one...
It was dire... I am sorry to be the one who feels let down when he doesn't find sourdough toast... but I am!0 -
But not selling them to the Cooperative in Broomhill, clearly...Dorset_Boy said:
My folks were growing tomatoes, peppers, melon, aspargus in the early 70s in their garden & greenhouse.ugo.santalucia said:
Tomatoes, peppers, salad other than iceberg, romanesco, sweet potatoes, pak choi, all stuff that is now grown even over here...surrey_commuter said:
Those are all British foods surely we are talking about exotic foreign foods like the previously mentioned avocado or fresh pineapples.Pross said:
Swede, leaks, sprouts, turnips, parsnips, cauliflower, marrows were all commonplace in my local greengrocer in the 70s. Food may have been quite basic back then but on the whole it would have been lower fat and sugar than most of the fancy stuff they cook on Masterchef. Just because something has exotic ingredients, is served with a jus and looks like a piece of modern art doesn't make it any healthier. The downfall is the massive rise in convenience food since the 80s.ugo.santalucia said:
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...
Same for bread, now you have a choice, often even freshly baked, at the time it was white sliced loaf or brown sliced loaf in a plastic bag... you could choose Hovis or Warburtons or the even cheaper supermarket brand one...
It was dire... I am sorry to be the one who feels let down when he doesn't find sourdough toast... but I am!left the forum March 20230 -
Fair to say that people may have different experiences and therefore opinions?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 -
Even here in the backwoods of Wales people would make an early morning trip to the baker's for fresh bread. OK it might not have been gluten free, vegan friendly artisan bread from flour ground between uncut diamonds but it was bloody lovely (with proper butter). We could even got wholemeal as well as 'brown' and possibly even granary.elbowloh said:
Are you sure you weren't living in some sort of twilight zone? Thats not how i remember it at all!ugo.santalucia said:
Tomatoes, peppers, salad other than iceberg, romanesco, sweet potatoes, pak choi, all stuff that is now grown even over here...surrey_commuter said:
Those are all British foods surely we are talking about exotic foreign foods like the previously mentioned avocado or fresh pineapples.Pross said:
Swede, leaks, sprouts, turnips, parsnips, cauliflower, marrows were all commonplace in my local greengrocer in the 70s. Food may have been quite basic back then but on the whole it would have been lower fat and sugar than most of the fancy stuff they cook on Masterchef. Just because something has exotic ingredients, is served with a jus and looks like a piece of modern art doesn't make it any healthier. The downfall is the massive rise in convenience food since the 80s.ugo.santalucia said:
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...
Same for bread, now you have a choice, often even freshly baked, at the time it was white sliced loaf or brown sliced loaf in a plastic bag... you could choose Hovis or Warburtons or the even cheaper supermarket brand one...
It was dire... I am sorry to be the one who feels let down when he doesn't find sourdough toast... but I am!
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13.6 million watched the old boys funeral live; 11 million of those on the BBC.
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That's a blast from the past, I used to live round the corner on Harcourt Road at around the same time.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/
Looks like they've moved a few doors up since then.1 -
4 million Brexiteers have some explaining to doblazing_saddles said:13.6 million watched the old boys funeral live; 11 million of those on the BBC.
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