All for BANTZ but let be honest here…England mocking any other country’s food is just laughable. And I’m a fan!
Sure, you can google worst food and find examples, but come mine or Kels way and you’d have a tough time finding bad eats. In Old Blighty terrible fried food is the standard on every corner. It’s an embarrassment and there’s a reason why you all are so insecure about it.
When peas are considered a flavor you’ve utterly lost it.
Back in his Hacienda days BF was known as Chips Booty.
On a side note, the cost of supermarket food and general quality in the US compared to the UK is mind blowing. Ive just done a standard shop in Whole Foods, which to be fair is just about on par with Waitrose, and it cost $200…….nothing extravagant…..just standard fresh food/veg/fish/drink. In the UK that would have cost about $100 max. Crazy.
I just cant work it out. The amount of resources, infrastructure, competition in the market and you get bog standard food at high prices, or something resembling decent grub for $$$$$$$. Food, cell phone plans and used cars……US consumers get totally ripped off !!
Supermarket food is all very 1950s over here in the standard retailers here in the North East……you get the value buying in bulk and cooking from scratch - spending 4 hours doing a Warren Moussaka. Only unemployed dull house DJs have that amount of time on their hands these days……
Has your area got upmarket squirty cheese in a can, jy?
The English can’t even order chippy food right. You want high level food, come to the emerald Isle. If your plate doesn’t have 11 different potato sides on then it was “cooked” by a fucking ball bag.
Market food isn’t cheap here but the quality is off the charts. Then again, California, we’re lucky with the climate.
Been a warm and dry winter (which means we’ll all be dying from a forest fire in 8 months’ time), so the asparagus has been sprouting early. Fresh asparagus is immense.
EDIT one dude at the bar a few years back called our asparagus salad “asssss-par-ahhhh-gus” which was odd.
jonattonyeah LOL….I have 2 bunches of asparagus in my fridge right now for that very reason 
jonattonyeah So how much is your weekly shop there in CA? Where do you shop? Maybe its a NYC/Tri State thing, or im being ripped off every time i go in the store….lol
It’s just me for the most part and I’d say I spend $60 a week on food I actually eat.
IndustryStandard I moved to CA from Florida, and before that, Missouri, and I can say with absolute certainty that the prices here are definitely higher than in either of those two places. I haven’t lived in the Northeast, but per Google, we’re about the same here as prices in the Northeastern US. So, yeah, I feel you. I tend to buy groceries a couple weeks at a time (mostly) and spend about $200/trip also. Also depends on where you shop and what you’re buying. I try to buy as much organic/CSA stuff as I can, but there are definitely cheaper ways to shop.
Would you say, Kels, that markets are set up for families over this way? The difference in price between a Safeway and a Whole Foods is marginal at best for one or two people. But you get into the household pricing - 4-5 people - and you really see the difference.
jonattonyeah Yeah, I would agree with that. I mean, I’ve never really shopped for a household, given that I love living by myself and have no kids, but when you’re talking about buying things in a larger quantity, the costs do add up fast. I have moved towards eating less meat after moving here, mostly because of the cost, so I can’t even imagine what it would take to feed a household.
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My American friend is a manager of a food market is Seattle. A lot of the food is all locally grown and is outstanding by all accounts. She also gives out food vouchers to the people who can’t afford it.
I think you’ll find the city with the most Michelin starred restaurants is London.
Or the capital of the world as I like to call it.
And a lol for Mono’s outstanding work in this thread!
IndustryStandard Whole Foods isn’t comparable at all to Waitrose - Whole Foods is a massive fucking rip off.
mono-stereo lol
mono-stereo Looks like a dog poo bag perched on the side.
