Fat people in France…

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.

Edit: that compares with 41.6% of French people who are fat.

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?

flour from happy hens

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.

Waitrose have ‘little waitrose’ on high streets to sell upmarket stuff.

Where?

Molgripes – this thread is about why people in France are skinnier on average than us in the UK. Not about buying upmarket products. Unless you’re saying that all the upmarket food you buy is part of the problem?

Are you denying that there are local bakeries and whatnot? Am I making it up or what?

I can’t actually think of any traditional bakeries on the High St, there are quite a few that have ovens and cook the premade, factory produced dough. Is this what you mean?

Back on topic, when it was 39°C outside last week and 26°C in the house anything heavier than a salad and fish didn’t really appeal.

Don – there is a traditional bakery in the town I live in. That’s one bakery for 25,000 people.

Edit – to be fair it’s actually more of an upmarket tea shop that sells it’s fresh bread. We do have a Waitrose though.

Molgripes – this thread is about why people in France are skinnier on average than us in the UK. Not about buying upmarket products. Unless you’re saying that all the upmarket food you buy is part of the problem?

it is however an opportunity for molgrips to let us all know that he shops in waitrose ad has just the most exqueeseete taste in dainty snacks

Don – there is a traditional bakery in the town I live in. That’s one bakery for 25,000 people.

OK.
There are city centre Waitroses in Shrewsbury and Chester, however they appear to have forgotten Wrexham. You see more fatties in Wrexham and very few French.
Do you think they’ve eaten the French?

Are French people low or high GI?

I suppose the whole point of this thread is about the French being leaner meat add this to garlic being allowed, I’d say you can add Frenchies to your low GI diet.

Can you get french people pasties?

A few years ago I was biking in t’Alps.

I had commented during the holiday about what appeared to be a lack of fat people whenever I visited France.

One of our number was injured at Morzine and went to hospital in Thonon-Les-Bains.

Whilst waiting for our friend, we found an all-you-can-eat Chinese buffet.

What appeared to be the entire fat population of France were in there, we assumed it was some sort of annual conference.

I ate a fair amount.

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Pound Bakeries of the world Part2:

There was a Pound Bakery in Altrincham. I bought my, ahem, wholesome, artisan-crafted lunch from there on occasion (in my defence, I was cycle commuting) Sadly, it closed down.

I’m nit sure if there’s a connection, but there is a Waitrose in said town …rare in the North, although I suppose it is in Cheshire…. It hasn’t closed down.

I’d say you can add Frenchies to your low GI diet

a bit chewy and rubbery though

this thread is about why people in France are skinnier on average than us in the UK. Not about buying upmarket products

You and Edukator started going on about how everyone in the UK is a fat lazy slob who only buys the cheapest crap and doesn’t care about nice food.

This is so manifestly wrong I had to contest it.

Well I don’t think I said everyone… I’m in the UK and I’m not fat and lazy, nor do I eat crap food.

You eat ready made sauces though. 😛

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.

so we have supurbs in small villages now.

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?

not sure you have mentioned any tbh some supermarkets , some smaller supermarkets and some supurbs…here have my quote again

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

but there is a Waitrose in said town …rare in the North

Hardly. One of the oldest branches of waitrose is in Merseyside.

Mind you, Liverpool was – for some time – the obesity capital of the UK.

I BLAME WAITROSE!