OK, What's For Lunch or Tea Today?

[Roy S]

I think it's meals like this that has plateaued out your weight loss Roy.

& perhaps the vino I wash it down with David

[Marco]

Sure, real ice cream is getting hard to get now. I can eat Mr whippy but whatever it is, its not ice cream.
I used to make my own. Had a machine to do it with and it worked great. (daughter has it now and used it a week or so actually)

Yup... REAL ice-cream [read as the full-fat variety, made with genuine dairy produce and other high-quality ingredients] isn't cheap or quick to make, which is the reason why that disgusting (in comparison), synthetic tasting, 'Mr Whippy' PISH was invented, as it's quick/cheap and simple to produce/serve to the public - and much more profitable! But REAL ice-cream it isn't

I don't eat it, mainly on principle, as it's an affront to my sensibilities as a foodie, but also because it doesn't taste anything like REAL ice-cream. And with me it's always a case of either eat the best, or a very good example, of something [whatever it may be] - or NONE of it, if all I can get is something that's vastly inferior to the real deal.

That's the reason why, for example, I only EVER eat BRITISH strawberries *in season*, as at any other time of year they simply don't taste (or even look) like strawberries!

Marco.

[Marco]

Missed this earlier...

That ranks with that bloody awful spray can "cream" stuff in my opinion.

Amazing what is done with "dairy" products - I went to a cash and carry a few years ago (I think it was Macro) and they had great big slabs of "catering cheddar", when I looked at one of the labels it contained a high percentage of chalk

Yup, it's amazing a) the crap that some folk will eat, and b) the shite that some folk will sell, simply to make a profit! What happened to caring about the quality of the product you're providing your customers with, and taking a genuine PRIDE in your business?

If I was running a fast-food business, no amount of profit would make me sell substandard cack, as I simply wouldn't enjoy the process. I'd rather provide my customers with a product I knew was genuinely good, and make less money from it, but still enough to sustain a successful business and comfortable living, whilst maintaining an excellent reputation, as experience tells me that kind of business model is more likely to succeed and be more profitable in the long term.

It was always how my parents, grandparents and other members of my family, ran their fast-food establishments successfully for over 40 years!

Also (while I'm on a rant), I used to really like Colston Basset Stilton until in an anti listeria frenzy, the use of unpasteurised milk was banned by some Stilton trade organisation. I could definitely taste the difference with the pasteurised version.

Yup, another of my pet hates when it comes to REAL cheese, similar in principal to what I was discussing before with REAL ice-cream. Quite simply, we've taken our food too far down the road of excessive legislation, for no real constructive purpose other than to pander to fashions/convenience or political agendas, ultimately to the detriment of QUALITY and TASTE.

However, we [not us, but rather the 'undiscerning masses' among the general public] who don't really care what they eat, as long as its plentiful and cheap, also have ourselves to blame for driving down standards, as if we didn't buy some of the nasty processed shite out there, posing as 'food', and insisted on fresher and better quality, even if it meant paying a little more for what we ate, then said shite would be less likely to exist!

Furthermore, it would in turn help drive food standards UP, rather than down - but that will never happen here, as too many folk are fixated solely on CONVENIENCE and PRICE!!

<MY RANT now over>



Marco.

[walpurgis]

But I like some cheap and nasty processed foods, like Prawn Cocktail crisps and Primula cheese spread for instance.

[Marco]

That's fine, and there's no harm in the existence of *some* of those products, but they should be less of a 'norm'

Marco.

[archiesdad]

Nepalese curry out, now to decide which one!

[struth]

Delivery squeezed in to freezer bar a goulash soup so scoffed that.. Sorry no pic.. Was lovely

[Marco]

No worries, as you've showed us it before and it looked nice last time

Marco.

[mightymonoped]

A kind of variation on Chilaquiles (progenitor of Nachos).

Corn tortillas cooked in a chipotle salsa with leftover chicken, green beans, black beans and corn. Topped with cheese and hot sauce and baked in the oven. Very moreish.






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[Marco]

Quality (as usual), Tony. My wife would love a veggie version of that, say with refried beans? Or simply minus the chicken

Marco.