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

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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.

I agree with you.

Why must big chunks of undercooked peppers, courgettes and onions going in every ducking thing as well?

You invented a cooking pot?

I meant it as sarcasm and that we poor cooks (according to op, 90% of the population) haven’t managed to kill ourselves off yet.

I was also being sarcastic! And trying for a bit of humour! And I thought the OP meant 90% of the global population as she did say after all that most people can’t cook!

Could someone please tell me what this thing called Nidderdale is? I don’t recall ever seeing this in the supermarkets or markets when I lived in UK and I tried to google it but all I get is a place in Yorkshire!

We have an olive tree growing on the side of the road where I live and if you do make olive oil, I would really appreciate it if you could share with me how you did that as right now, no one picks the olives or uses them and I think it’s a shame to have them just wasted.

It's based on Edwardian menus so it's in that order, hence the 'salad' being cooked.
@JoanOfAllTrades

I will do, I think it isn't as simple as just blitzing in the blender, you'd have stones in the oil then.

I think Nidderdale is probably a cheese from there, like Wenslydale is.

I think you’re right, blending them would be a tapenade type thing or a mushy mess. There must be a way to extract the oils.

Thank you for the Nidderdale answer 🙂

If nidderdale refers to a cheese, then I think it illustrates exactly the opposite of the British food is all bland and crap argument.

This is what Google brings up for nidderdale cheese: www.stonebeckcheese.co.uk. A raw Wensleydale from nidderdale.

This is apparently how to make
olive oil: www.wikihow.com/Make-Olive-Oil?amp=1

Please explain what nidderdale is? I don’t recall ever seeing this in supermarkets when I lived in the UK and it’s definitely not a thing where I live now!

It's one of the Yorkshire dales. Presumably the poster meant something else and this was one of autocorrect's more fanciful offerings, but I can't imagine what it was supposed to be.

It’s irritating when people argue against literal fact and state that it’s my opinion. It isn’t my opinion it’s fact, and I was proving so. My aim wasn’t to make you feel anything 🙄 if you’re personally offended by what I wrote then I’d suggest you’re a little bit sensitive.

And what about the classic British buffet food?
Cold chicken drumsticks & soogy brocoli Quiche... anyone?

I'm a terrible cook. Like genuinely awful. I don't know how people do it.

Some people I know who cant cook simply do not like cooking, in some cases they rage up at the thought of having to prepare and cook a meal. Other people I know are too lazy to cook, it's not that they cant, it's that they wont.

Luckily I love cooking and will spends hours doing it.

Well, at least you have taste! Otherwise you wouldn’t know you’re a terrible cook.

Hurting people's feeling is not civillized argument. Maybe you have a low self esteem that you need to tell people what they do wrong. I am sure you are from a thoroughly perfect background, not.
Cold countries didn't grow the kind of vegetation and spices warmer countries did many centuries ago. In last century globalisation has allowed nations to share their knowledge, be it about food skills or other skills. Warmer countries naturally developed a variety of dishes and colder countries had more focus on science and navigation. Would you also tell Germany that they are laughing stock of the world, as their cuisines is not popular in the world? When they have substantial contribution to the world in the area of engineering. Of course, what UK contributed to the world you dont know about. I am from an erstwhile colony and really embarrassed by people like you, who have no maturity and balanced thought process and behave like rude teenagers on these forums being so rude. And the most disappointing bit is that most likely you and your husband are well educated first generation immigrants in UK. I would understand a person who never left their country to have your kind of thought process and demeanor.

I'll bear it in mind but as I live in the mountains I tend to go on holiday to cities. Worst food was in Rome, but then, even the Italians sneer at Roman food. Agree about France. It's not what it was.
Also agree that a ragu is cooked long and slow. I've had Dolmio once - never again. Slimy stuff.