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BenR
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It's our belief that 90% of the food sold in British pubs and restaurants is now pre-prepared in a factory, delivered chilled or frozen then microwaved and finished under the grill. This explains why the menus are so predictable and the vegetables always come in the same white porcelain dish.
Have a look at the websites of Brakes Group, 3663, Premier Foods, 3G, there are plenty of them. These are the white refrigerated trucks you see trogging around in the mornings delivering to the pubs and restaurants.
Many pubs advertise "Home Cooked Food" but I wonder if this actually means Home Microwaved? Apart from asking the staff or going somewhere expensive, how can we be sure we're not being palmed off with industrial food? I object to the practice and I wish there was a way we could support restauranteurs who really do make the effort to go and buy fresh local produce, rather than inflating the profits of some Megacorp.
What do others think?
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Posted - 04/02/2010 : 19:52
Not much I can add to what Richard has written! If you watched the recent TV programmes re-creating the life of Welsh families in World War II there were some interesting takeaway messages (no pun intended). They were trying to live on the same food supply etc. One mother said she had managed to lose weight for the first time while in the programme and now realised she had been eating portions three times larger than she needed at home! Another wonderful one was the way the children were in heaven playing out on the waste ground among chickens and pigs and vegetable beds. They were getting lots of exercise but also playing together and learing how to interact with each other. They loved it and didn't want to `back' to 21st Century life.
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Stanley
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Posted - 05/02/2010 : 06:07
Can you imagine what heaven it was for my daughters and their friends at Hey Farm? Seven acre playground, cats, dogs, calves, pigs, cattle. And sledging in winter!
Stanley Challenger Graham
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Factory made food in pubs & restaurants.
