I believe it was Derek Cooper who expressed the opinion that anyone who found themselves eating low-fat spread would be far better off just spreading their butter less thickly.
Of course *really* old-fashioned eating would involve a fairly restricted subset (no garlic, peppers, avocado, kiwi fruit, broccoli, raddiccio etc) of what's in season, covered in mud, riddled with pests, not to mention Fray Bentos tinned meat pies, cotton-wool sliced white loaves, and orange juice that's three pounds a pint. If you wanted courgettes you'd have to get an allotment and grow them yourself and eat a pound a day of the bloody things during the summer....boiled. No frozen food unless it's peas. No pasta except in puddings and macaroni cheese. No curry. No rice (apart from puddings, of course). I could go on but to be honest celestialweasel had a worse time of it.
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Low-fat - spawn of the devil!
Date: June 9th, 2004 09:27 am (UTC)From:Of course *really* old-fashioned eating would involve a fairly restricted subset (no garlic, peppers, avocado, kiwi fruit, broccoli, raddiccio etc) of what's in season, covered in mud, riddled with pests, not to mention Fray Bentos tinned meat pies, cotton-wool sliced white loaves, and orange juice that's three pounds a pint. If you wanted courgettes you'd have to get an allotment and grow them yourself and eat a pound a day of the bloody things during the summer....boiled. No frozen food unless it's peas. No pasta except in puddings and macaroni cheese. No curry. No rice (apart from puddings, of course). I could go on but to be honest