Inglorious Food

I have moved all my food thoughts to the Food Odyssey blog - see column on the right!

Yesterday's food experiences in Devon and Somerset tell us something about the state of British food.   We are meant to be living in a great ate of eating out.  Sadly this news has not filtered through to a great many areas.  Food is very tied up with the class system - and it shouldn't be.  A great deal of what is thought of as "middle class" food nowadays was working class food 40 plus years ago.  

Obviously making ready made food into a mass produced commodity and feeding everyone the idea that a £3.50 meat pie from Sainsburys is much nicer than what you can make yourself has had disastrous effects on the large majority of British people.   Actually, a lot of people who eat this sort of pap would consider themselves middle class - so the true horror is "foodies" - these are the people we try and slander and despise because they are offering a critique of food that is really not "good enough" for everyday consumption.    We bloody minded types are daring to say that if you don't have time to cook - make yourself a bacon sandwich, or have a nice lump of bread and cheese and an apple.  This is better than a ready meal from virtually anywhere. 

The thing has come to such a state that we are told an adequate meal is fantastic - and a ghastly pub meal is regarded as "tasty" by those who presumably like salt and sugar and not much else.  This is not meant to be snobbish - but I am sorry that people are not enjoying really nice food but giving themselves ill health with bad food.