Quality of Food in Britain is crap

It's probably something like a feedback cycle - we buy the things that are cheaper, so the supermarkets focus on giving us cheaper food, and eventually that becomes all that's available. If we voted with our feet and refused to buy the cheap tasteless crap then things would improve and they would start to supply the demand for better quality produce. But since the supermarkets have a stranglehold on the production and supply of food, voting with your pound is less easy than it sounds.

 

farms and allotments thats organic man ....... as for raising vegetables properly think tony blair has a cabinet full "dont touch them tho well past their sell by date .

 

man, it's so easy here to get really good produce. we've got farmer's markets, organic produce stores, whole foods markets, choice city butchers, a local ranch that raises incredible organic beef and follows the fish & game commissions' guidelines for land stewardship, not to mention hunting. i just don't understand staying somewhere without options.

 

right on

 

that's colorado for ya! we've also got three different breweries here in town.

 

whats it like fer smoke

 

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. it's everywhere. this is hippie/techie/student land. i've yet to go camping with someone complaining about a dearth of it. i couldn't tell you the quality, since i don't partake, though. sorry.

 

you must be in heaven man

 

yes, yes i am. i've been here a year and i'm still giddy.

 

Shoot me but I think a large part of the reason for the demise of the britsh food culture is due to feminism.
The women decided that cooking was demeening so they stopped, didn't teach their children to cook and started buying ready meals instead.
It's even beneath a lot of people to make someone else a cup of tea let alone take pride in being able to cook.

 

well, if the materials you have to work with are uninspiring, cooking isn't going to be a big priority, either. then again, YOU COULD COOK, TOO. i know, god, what a mind-blower.

 

Hear, hear! Also though, a large part of it, is down to the blacks.

 

And don't forget the Jews. Can't have a good conspiracy without a few Jews thrown in....

 

No thats not true, they have given us rice and peas.

 

how 'bout them catholics?

 

Sorry lady and I know I did ask for it. British culture will be a bit different from the USA so easy on me eh, we are talking specifically UK here.

To elucidate a little, I was taught by my mother to cook and feed my four younger siblings and have taken the responsibility honourably. I love food and enjoy preparing a meal. When I first entered my current relationship I even instructed my partner that I was taking over the kitchen and did so, she accepted thankfully. Twelve years later we still share the space and have our children join in as well.

Men in the UK don't cook because they usually haven't been taught to do so, this purely from an historic perspective has been the fault of the mothers. I observe loads of households where young men are mollycoddled by their mums, they actually like looking after their "poor little boys". Perversley they will also teach their daughters that they shouldn't be running around after men and should keep out of the kitchen.

Result a nation of people who can't boil an egg. Just look at a students kitchen, pot noodles or beans on toast and proud of it.

Food in the UK is crap because no-one knows how to cook anymore, hence all the pre-prepared food in the supermarket.

Oh and I know some of you are different.
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i'm merely resentful because it's quite a but the same here. my mother didn't teach me to cook, either, though. she was a vicious territorial bitch in the kitchen. i just washed dishes. but i bought cookbooks. i've got loads of them, and i watch cooking programs. i've become a pretty damned good cook.

 

the chinese diet seems to be well healthy man talking to some dude other day who was like 456 years old man .........ok a bit of an ex (how the fuck do you spell exsageration )ok knock a few years off like.

 

too much rice makes me fat and bloated. love the veggies and fish stuff, though. can't handle the starches.