Most people make terrible food and can't actually cook.

[ImNotEntirelySureAboutThat]

They can't.

I read such horrors on food threads.

Either courgettes and mushrooms mixed in a worthy mushy horror.

OR jars, and packets.

Horrible. So. Much. Horrible. Foood.

@LisaLovedUp …meow!! Oh well, here goes my idea of having a civilised argument with an online middle class and proud person. Like I said, each to their own. As some other poster mentioned, food in the UK is renowned worldwide to be bland, tastless. It’s due to ingredients in my opinion, water might also have something to do with it.

It’s not your opinion that I’m challenging. You can think that tomatoes, cheese and pasta is the most divine food in the world so long as they were sourced in an Italian supermarket. That’s fine.

it’s the basic facts that you’re getting wrong that I have an issue with.

It simply is bullshit that British supermarkets - even a small, provincial Asda! - stock a range of cheese. Some of it will be very nice.

you repeating stereotypical assumptions common in other countries doesn’t make it true.

It simply is bullshit that British supermarkets - even a small, provincial Asda! - don’t stock a range of cheese. Some of it will be very nice.

proofreading. Now that I am Shit at.

Maybe they live IN cheddar?

i went to the cheddar shop, they sold other cheeses there

Some of these posts make me wonder where you live and if you only have access to major supermarkets.

There’s really good produce around even if it’s not what supermarkets mostly do. And that laughing stock line… yeah we know constantly reminded on mn

😂made me laugh

The Italian supermarket near me carries the same makes as a lot of supermarkets, just a higher price as they’ve personally imported them. The tomatoes are good, however some of aldis are comparable.

Cheddar can be delicious and is immensely versatile. It's not DOP though so quality varies.

Depends what you mean by not being able to cook. Unless you mean getting constant food poisoning and/or illness resulting from the destruction of nutrients rather than lack of ability to afford appropriate ingredients, it’s a matter of opinion, not fact, as most people can unquestionably cook with the ingredients and facilities they have access to.

I doubt most people know how to skin a rabbit, or fillet a fish, or pluck and prepare a chicken, etc, so wouldn’t know what to do if their food was not already partially prepared for them, but that has been the case for centuries now, that society has specialists to help out. @ImNotEntirelySureAboutThat therefore sounds like a smug food bore.

however some of aldis are comparable.

Indeed. I got san marzano tomatoes in there the other day.

Me too! 😂

I do agree with this. The supermarkets are mainly stocked with processed, packaged, ready made, convenience-based shit over actual ingredients to cook with. There’s no choice when it comes to quantity either. Serves four…but you need five? You’re buying two. Need three steaks? Have four.
There’s a lot of wastage owing to portioning by supermarkets, while of course, they profit.

I do try to shop so I can avoid this…I’ll make it to an actual butcher for example or stock up pulses at the wholefood shop…but I haven’t got the hours in a day to be dedicating to clever food shopping, so for much of the time, the local Tesco it is. They have us all in their thrall don’t they?

My grandson said my cooking looks messy but tastes amazing. My mother-in-law also likes it and will eat it even though she mainly lives on scones and biscuits and won't eat a lot otherwise (Alzheimer's)

Oh how strange, I seem to be able to get all sorts of different cheeses from all supermarkets. Not just Red Leicester either. Even my local corner shop has a good selection...

I have no less than 6 supermarkets within walking distance of my house (provincial, urban area) and several corner shops too.

I’m almost tempted to do a cheese audit - with photos.

Or, I’ll cycle into town and ask the cheese monger what French and Italian cheeses they have. (Answer:loads)

Except I can’t be arsed. Not least because I doubt the actual facts will shift the ridiculous stereotypes some posters insist are true.

Sure, I can also buy beans and shit sliced white bread if that’s what I want. But it is definitely bullshit that I can’t pop out and pick up some great ingredients.

Who’s ridiculous post.

What a ridiculous post!!

😂
Was thinking the same (very longtime lurker/occasional poster)

I don't think the UK palette is bland at all. We have almost every world cuisine to choose from and it is extremely diverse.

No, I have not.
English food in the home is hilarious.
Of course, there are great restaurants, selling global cuisine, even though this market is over-saturated with poor food and poor service. The Uk really does struggle with service. That's not what this is about, a roast dinner isn't great is it, it's meat and veg piled on a plate. Britsh in the main struggle with flair, plain, boring, and tasteless. Boiled ham and roast ham, pork sausage, and Nidderdale.
Britain struggles with cured meats and cheeses.
In fact, the choice is just not up to scratch, people have to remember cuisine from around the world was peasant food, and people were quite ingenious.
British claim not to have the time, but if you love food and breaking bread with the family, food is a priority and a semblance of pride.

Britain leads the world in music and F1, some fashion, but food, not.🤐

Surely the savoury comes after dessert?

This makes no sense. The kind of non-cooking the op describes is done by people who aren’t very interested in food. If you’re describing yourself as a foodie, I imagine you’re picking up ideas from restaurants, trying out new recipes and ingredients... hardly likely to be cooking out of packets all the time and, because cooking really isn’t all that difficult, even if you’re a crap cook to begin with you’ll improve if you’re interested.

I maintain ‘bad’ cookery comes down to a lack of interest in food every time. I grew up in a house where almost everything came out of jars, packets or the microwave. However, the few things that my mum made from scratch - that she had pride in - were gorgeous.

My Mother was a decent plain English cook, very much of her generation she did not over do veg, my Father was Chinese and opened the first restaurant in a small English town in around 1960. So they both taught me the respective cuisines. People go a little crazy for my Chinese food as it is not like the stuff you get in a take away.

All my siblings are really decent cooks, One of my sisters married an Italian so he taught her that cuisine and she taught me which was helpful. DH family was a revelation as they are all dreadful and I had never eaten such awful food, they over cook everything. I remember his sister saying we would be having chunky chicken it turned out it was tinned cooked chicken in a white sauce from M&S, at that point I thought I need to try and offer to host as much as possible.

We grow a little veg at home but I volunteer at a community allotment project so get quite a few supplies from there. My sister and her Italian DH grew almost all their own veg for years, also preserving and freezing a lot when he died she couldn’t manage such a big allotment. I would say she is the best non professional cook I know. Her DS did actually become a chef and had his own restaurant, he left as so unsociable, he goes sea fishing and it’s rod to plate in a couple of hours. He made one of the best things I have ever tried, a pear and Stilton mousse dish when he was training and experimenting in her kitchen, he was at chef school and was only 19 at the time.

Where on earth are you shopping?? My cheese shelf in the fridge (yes, I’m a cheeseaholic) currently holds your cheddar, plus compte, feta, halloumi, Stilton, mozzarella, soft cheese, Parmesan, manchego and Bix. All bought from an English supermarket.

You may be right but who cares what other people are doing? You sound like a twat, but then I think that's the point of the post. Most people don't claim they are brilliant cooks but most of us have a family to feed and so attempt it. Yes my cooking is crap but I give it a go 😂and if I want food with friends or family it will be a takeaway (which isn't very often!) Or dinner out. Everyone is just doing their own thing and getting on with life. These judgy posts are so boring.