Do we?
I do.
It's getting there... smelt a bit funky last night! There's an uplift day at Hopton on the 22nd that might help with the blues? I can't remember my log-in otherwise I'd start a thread on it.
Funky is not good. Get Chris to give you his medical opinion and take the stitches out while he's at it?
I should be able to turn my head again by the 22nd. For now I can only go in straight lines.
I had 3 croissants and a pannoshokala for breakfast this morning. 🙂
deadly's turning into a right chubbyfunster
its the wife who's meant to put on the baby weight!
I think it was the Vaseline in the dressing... smelt alright this morning. GoPro stitch removal footage?
Tres Bonne DD.
I had 3 croissants and a pannoshokala for breakfast this morning.
Good work.
(On a serious note, beware the classic new fathers getting fat probelm. Iz why I iz biffer)
ohhh dont worry about deadly getting fat, he's the BMF member of the month cos he's so fit and stuff. he bench presses whole army tanks i hear.
I'm looking forward to him becoming Double E... or even GG.
and his road bike has the word 'race' on it.
Is twitter this absorbing ?
How do I join
Junky this is a live twitter feed.
#withoutthe*******swearing
CBA reading the whole thread but what's all this about jarred vegetables being full of sugar and that's why British people are fat? I don't think I have ever seen or heard of anyone in this country eating jarred vegetables. Industrial beans and vegetables? Eh? 😕
Juan is making that out to be a bad thing about British culture...
Well I am only reporting my observation. When I was at the uni, we had a "market" on mondays. Basically, it was the same product you could find in most supermarket only a bit cheaper. Funnily enough, most people queueing for fruit and veg where continental or overseas.
Well I am only reporting my observation. When I was at the uni, we had a "market" on mondays.
My local market (wednesdays and saturdays - always busy) has a really good selection of meats and cheeses from quality local farms/suppliers, great bread/baked goods, as well as continental deli type stuff, fruit and veg ranging from very cheap to organic etc
I definitely agree that France has a much better 'food culture', but it's not as bad here as some people make out.
And some of the stuff in French supermarkets (like sliced bread for instance) is utter rubbish.
All wrong, grum, it's the English tins that contian the sugar and the foreign jars that don't. But some English tins, especially own-branded ones from supermarkets, don't contain added sugar or salt either.
The whole thread is about sweeping statements and stereotypes, Molgrips. You yourself are the master of the disparaging sweeping statement concerning the Germans, for example on this thread:
I didn't particularly enjoy the food in Germany, to be honest. Big emphasis on jarred veg and also very little choice. The convenience food there was was awful ... I couldn't find anything to hold a candle to Waitrose in the suburbs of Munich
grum - I think there are plenty of people that know how to eat properly in the UK. The obesity statistics and a cursory glance around seem to suggest that even more don't.
All wrong, grum, it's the English tins that contian the sugar and the foreign jars that don't.
Where did I get that wrong exactly? My point is it's a non-issue and pointless comparison because hardly anyone eats jars of vegetables in this country. 😕
grum - I think there are plenty of people that know how to eat properly in the UK. The obesity statistics and a cursory glance around seem to suggest that even more don't.
Yup, fair enough. I do think the fact that we work some of the longest hours in Europe (and have some of the most congested roads/crappest public transport?) has an impact. I know when I am rushing around working long days with little break and driving between jobs I end up eating crap a lot of the time. I do think it's ridiculous how hard it is to buy healthy food from the vast majority of shops though.
Doe she not know Aldi is German?
Absolutely superb recycling system though and i found it to be very good - France had loads of milk free stuff as well when I was there which was nice.
Food here is, in general, about the cheapest and the most convenient
Franc e and Germany still have bakers and actual food shops in small villages and not just large supermarkets in the edge of towns
Whilst there is variability I would rather have their food system than ours [ though perhaps they could keep the french farmers 😉
And some of the stuff in French supermarkets (like sliced bread for instance) is utter rubbish.
Never said it wasn't
Franc e and Germany still have bakers and actual food shops in small villages and not just large supermarkets in the edge of towns
If Spain is anything to go by, they're playing catch up quite nicely. 😥
All wrong, grum
The whole thread is about sweeping statements
France and Germany still have bakers and actual food shops in small villages and not just large supermarkets in the edge of towns
So do we! I dunno where you live but it must be pretty grim!
Food here is, in general, about the cheapest and the most convenient
I really don't agree.
grum - I think there are plenty of people that know how to eat properly in the UK. The obesity statistics and a cursory glance around seem to suggest that even more don't.
So we are 20% obese, aren't we? That means 80% are not. So I would suggest that most people do know how to eat properly.
77% may not be obese but the BBC says:
In the UK an estimated 60.8 per cent of adults and 31.1 per cent of children are overweight.
Most Brits are fat then, fact.
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Most Brits are fat then, fact.Edit: that compares with 41.6% of French people who are fat.
Yes, it's all because the the jars of industrial sugary vegetables that we are mad for in this country.
France and Germany still have bakers and actual food shops in small villages and not just large supermarkets in the edge of towns
So do we! I dunno where you live but it must be pretty grim!
well granted it is not as pretty as cloud cookoo land where every small village has a bakery and actual food shops 😉
Food here is, in general, about the cheapest and the most convenient
I really don't agree.
I really dont think you go in to shops very much
I dont even think either of those statements are controversial and can only assume you are being your usual contrary self.
In the next episode of the trolgrips show our intrepid hero tries to tell us that breathing is not essential for healthy living.
I dont even think either of those statements are controversial and can only assume you are being your usual contrary self.
I just don't think it's true. There are loads of more upmarket food places. Waitrose have expanded all over the place; every supermarket now has a 'taste the difference' range; you can spend £15 on a bottle of olive oil in a supermarket; there's plenty of organic produce, free range chicken, outdoor reared pork available; there's a choice of eggs from different kinds of hens in our ASDA ffs.
Even snacks are going upmarket - you may or may not like the coffee but Nerostabucks are always packed with people spending £3.50 on a drink and £5 on a sandwich. And that's in Cardiff, which is not an affluent middle-class place. To say that as a nation we go for the cheapest en-masse is just not right.
I wonder what kind of diet Emily Batty has. She's Canadian I believe, so might speak a little French.
Christ sake. Molly in France it doesn't seem that people spend that sort of money on that sort of shite.
They buy a fresh baguette for a euro and some butter and cheese. My thoughts are that this is closer to what thin people in the UK do.
Waitrose have expanded all over the place;
pretty sure it and asda are a supermarkets and not local bakeries based in small villages.
people spending £3.50 on a drink and £5 on a sandwich. And that's in Cardiff, which is not an affluent middle-class place.
aye greggs and the pound bakery [ 2 for a poud] have been put of business by the high class high price eateries iirc ronald mc Donald is bricking it that focaccia with a choice of organic humous will overtake the humble cheap price burger wares.
Trolgrips will be along shortly to tell you that Tesco Express has freshly baked baguettes in it.
Using locally sourced flour from happy hens?
They buy a fresh baguette for a euro and some butter and cheese.
And how do they get the butter on the baguette? Just wondering because this isn't something I did whilst living france or ever saw anyone else doing. So, you get the baguette (which is quite big), tear it open with your fingers, smear the butter over the inside of the baguette with your fingers, then get the cheese on - how exactly? Maybe Paris is a bit more sophisticated, but if I was snack hungry, I paid someone to do all that for me, by going to a sandwich seller and just buying a sandwich. Not stupidly expensive as I recall.
i do the same in italy, FWIW
I'm pretty sure that Trolgrips confessed to using ready made sauces yesterday so I have no idea what he knows about real decent food.
BBSB - the point really is that they don't buy a fancy expensive plastic packed shite sandwich from a supermarket... from what I could tell. As I've said earlier the road workers I saw having a lunch break were pretty much having a picnic. They didn't go to the motorway Maccie D's. Infact the motorway services restaurant was a pretty decent affair... not a burger in sight.
Zut! Tesco it sells baguettes?
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What came first though, the chicken or the bread?
why does he have a tiny little bum on the end of his nose?
BBSB - the point really is that they don't buy a fancy expensive plastic packed shite sandwich from a supermarket...
which is a tad different to buying some baguette and beurre and doing a diy sandwich without the aid of a knife. Especially if you're a mechanic
All wrong, grum, it's the English tins that contian the sugar and the foreign jars that don't. But some English tins, especially own-branded ones from supermarkets, don't contain added sugar or salt either.
Non, non, non. I am currently in France and being a lazy sod buy all my veg in cans, I looked at some yesterday and they all had added sugar (own brand and the more expensive stuff)
I should also mention that French supermarkets have plenty of convenience, snacking and crap food on the shelves so I can only assume that the French are not immune from eating bad food. Certainly the ones I know do.
Lol at the comment about the only fat bikers being English ones, there is plenty of truth in it. Everywhere I have been so far this summer, the biffers were all speaking English (and usually riding orange 5s)
The only good thing about the fat English mtbers is that they had the good sense to cover their lycra in baggy clothing... can't say the same for the foreign sounding chaps (although they weren't UK fat)... or the disgraceful Rapha wearers at the Chunnel station...
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But did you look at the jars, IanV?
The best-on-test olive oil in a recent test was Leclerc's own brand which was also one of the cheapest.
My original comment on the added sugar in UK tins came from a meal served from cans when we arrived at the family late one evening a few years back. On tucking in my first comment was "jeez this is all sweet, even the savoury stuff". Checking the tin labels revealed that everything on our plates had added sugar: meat, veg and potatoes.
pretty sure it and asda are a supermarkets and not local bakeries based in small villages.
Waitrose have 'little waitrose' on high streets to sell upmarket stuff. And there are also bakeries, butchers, greengrocers in most of the suburbs by me.
Not sure what your post is about here. Are you denying that there are local bakeries and whatnot? Am I making it up or what?
My point is that there is a significant market for local and/or upmarket food, and I think it has been growing for years.
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