Top 10 British dishes was summat else 551On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 21:36:02 +0000, Tom Anderson Perhaps because it's traditionally been seen as a breakfast dish with a "country house weekend party" and hangover...
Following up to Tom Anderson
I'll apply for a nice job in the resulting beauracracy! I think the only way forward is for people to care the way Italians care, its going to take a few St Jamie Olivers! In other words bottom up not top down.
the poor or stupid (and some rich or clever) people who eat crap do so while perfectly healthy good food is available to them. Every time some right wing Tory says that they get shouted down, but its true. People who eat crap do it out of preference, stupidity, ignorance or laziness. Every supermarket round here has things like dried beans on the shelves, Tescos sells "value" lines of most things you need very very cheaply. There's not that much wrong with the quality. But the crap eaters don't know how to or argent interested in cooking it, they go for convenience food instead. They often claim not to have time to cook but they can all recite all the characters from the soaps! I don't see the price of raw food as an issue at all in a rich country like this, (for the consumer). If we added a few pence to the price of many products like milk, *and it went to the farmers*, the financial problems of the industry would be solved, but it doesn't, all the money goes to the supermarkets. If that meant we ate a bit less, where's the problem, we all eat too much.
There's no more downward pressure (from the consumer) on food prices than any other prices, but other industries make a profit. In my opinion, the problem lies with the stranglehold of the middlemen. -- Mike Reid
