Umm, its not to hard to do in the US. We have a farmer friend who has more ground beef than he knows what to do with. Hell, even Coscto sells Florida sourced organic ground beef.
I eat pasture raised beef, because it's what they grow here in farm country NS. We don't have any of the big Cargill style, high density feedlot bullshit that goes on out west and in the US, it's all smaller farms.
Was this a British apologist thing because of all the complaints regarding British cooking?
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oh man, I almost forgot that @Dory Berkowitz-Bukowski is British. Yeah, complaining that people like food that tastes good is definitely quintessentially British.Miles of corn, soyboeans, wheat and hay here . . . I can buy pasture raised about 1 km up the road. Or at a number of local groceries.
Was this a British apologist thing because of all the complaints regarding British cooking?
We are in the delicious food thread - something different makes something more delicious.
You could get something up to 20% better if you usually get the crap.
In her defense, farmland is much more at a premium in EU so food costs more, probably leading to lower expectations since the cook can't afford to dabble as much. Almost Dickinsonian. Whenever we've had relatives visiting from Europe they rave about the food variety here.
And in the meantime, people like Jeremy Clarkson are trying to be farmers, and failing at it.
Saw the first episode of that
Its worth watching the rest. He actually kind of gets to the point where he knows what to do. Almost.
This is exceptionally incorrect. Especially around food prices. Your food costs an absolute fortune to buy and cook fresh compared to here.
That's quite a lark. He has actually done organic veg growing for many decades quietly without publicising it. Him putting on an oafish persona to get paid seems to work quite well for him though, especially since you seem to fall for it.
This BBC article(granted 3 years old) indicates you are exceptionally incorrect. It's all the imported stuff killing the numbers, since there isn't sufficient land to grow enough to feed the population of GB. Our prices would be even lower but for all the foreign competition for our domestically grown foodstuffs. You buying the wheat grown up the road from me makes MY bread cost more.
It's my understanding he makes no money off the veg growing but plenty from the associated fancy products. Like his honey "Bee Juice" - it's about 3.5X what I can get locally produced organic honey for. He's no farmer, it's just a fancy farm store and resturant. His 40 tonnes of potatoes story - he acheived about 1/10 the production of a normal nit-wit growing potatoes, on the amount of land he used. And then he let 38 tonnes rot
This article misses the cultural nuance that your fast food and eating out is much more frequent than the average Briton. It talks about how much food people spend to have food at home. The majority of people in the UK do not eat out often. My experience with almost everyone I've ever known in the states is that eating out happens a helluva lot. Eating out for you is, from what I've tested in lots of states, cheaper than buying fresh for home. Our eating out is very expensive in comparison.This BBC article(granted 3 years old) indicates you are exceptionally incorrect. It's all the imported stuff killing the numbers, since there isn't sufficient land to grow enough to feed the population of GB. Our prices would be even lower but for all the foreign competition for our domestically grown foodstuffs. You buying the wheat grown up the road from me makes MY bread cost more.
Why the UK has such cheap food
Britons spend very little on food compared with other nations, but that could be about to change.www.bbc.com
We have very good food here. I just don't believe any of it has to have dead animal flesh in it. Nothing British about that.
You have very good food there, as long as you don't care about how it tastes!
