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.

Ah, you mean going out of date food?

🤣 where I come from the UK food industry is described as the dumping ground of Europe... no wonder people voted for Brexit!

YANBU I grew up being told I was a fussy eater but turns out my mums just a terrible cook 😂
As soon as I was old enough to follow a recipe I realised I actually like most food!

Cuisine technique and creativity has nothing to do with nationality.
I hope we could move on from there.
To have good food you need good ingredients. We have that. Good techniques (clean and prepare vegetables, meat, fish... how to roast, boil, make a reduction, pasta technique, baking, cooking properly beans and cereals, making sauces, have an idea of how and spices work together, there is also a bit of science in this, and health consideration as well).
Coming in England I discovered cooking from around the world, not just a handful of "classic" countries. I was not exposed to that beforehand. And I am delighted I have to say.
Still, as we age we discover that we have to cook for relatives with kidney problems or heart condition etc.
Food should have been medecine in the first place, life sustaining, it's often the problem, and then when you think you got the perfect taste you discover that you have to take up courses to understand how to cook to stay alive. You have to retrain you palate also.
Some techniques I don't like I have to say. I could never cook pigeon like a chef or rare meat. Who does that when you have kids anyways ?
Cooking requires practise and being taught, it's a lifelong apprenticeship. But what I see is people invested in doing well around me.
What is shocking is the gap in taste and quality between industrial food and homemade food. Yet, you can find almost any ingredient you need to achieve the best meal possible in the same supermarket.
If I walk down my street at dinner time, each house is a restaurant. And those parents cook from scratch most of the time. You are pushing a bit OP.

You haven't eaten "most people"s" food.

Bringing out some real anger in the pp annoyed with British food.

My pet peeve is shoes. Fugly shoes should be banished to the furthest corners and wearers sent home to put on something decent.

By ‘fugly’ shoes do you mean comfortable shoes?

I wonder who invented Yorkshire puddings & why they get so much hype, they are tasteless majority of the time as not made with lard and much prefer suet pudding with a roast.

there’ll be lots now defensively proclaiming stuff about yorkshires but they wouldn’t have even tried suet pudding with a roast

what does your aggravation about colonisation have to do with British food?

Never mind. They try hard to push the decolonisation agenda into every thread. Tedious

I make brilliant food but don't post about it or discuss it on forums

I use packets, jars and every short cut I can find - love that there are bags of ready prepared veggies, even diced onions - doesn’t stop me from cooking good meals which everyone enjoys. Cooking from scratch doesn’t make a meal good.

Hmm, just thinking about my dinner last night.
I opened a packet of mince, several jars of herbs and spices, a tetrapack of pasatta, a box of stock cubes, a bottle of wine, a bottle of Worcestershire sauce, then a packet of pasta and a packet of cheese. I'll ignore the onions, garlic, celery and carrots, as that goes against your narrative. So, yes most of my dinner was from jars and packets. I'm sorry.

Sorry but you can't possibly be correct.

Op has tried most people's food, so chances are s/he has tried yours. So your food is probably terrible and you probably can't actually cook.

Sorry to be the one to break it to you....

(But if there's an invite going.... 😉)

@Mummieslncorporated 🤣🤣 Ah I stand corrected, thank you

Nothing wrong with using jars and packets if you want to anyway!- And have access to them/can afford them- most of the world probably doesn't use them tbh.
Sometimes I use them, sometimes I don't. I'm a reasonable cook (according to me,) but I'm sure not good enough for OP or half of MN!
I will be using frozen roasties on my Sunday lunch tomorrow! And a JAR of cranberry sauce! I can feel the judgement from here! But, its the world I live in and I'm fine with it!

I’m not so fussed about British food being criticised, we can take it and I just feel sorry for people who haven’t had wide enough experience of it to know that it’s not limited to a roast dinner and fish and chips. I was thinking of the American stuff tbh, and also not sure how helpful it is to characterise other nationalities as all good cooks. But we know the OP is a WUM rather than trying to create anything useful

I haven't eaten most Wilkes food but I've defo been to lots of dinner parties where the food was kinda tasteless. I'm always a bit surprised to discover people haven't tasted the food before they've served it up.

I'm told I'm a good cook but my rule of thumb is you keep tasting the food (with a clean spoon!!) until you hear yourself go 'yum'. When that happens, it's ready to dish up.

Actually I do have an olive tree and I am contemplating making olive oil from the olives.

You have not eaten most peoples food, you have eaten some peoples food.

Foodie means you really enjoy food it doesn't mean you have to be an excellent cook.

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Could Mrs Pankhurst cook?

Agree with this.

And…. Surely if you’d eaten ‘ most people’s food’ and found they can’t cook, why would you keep going back for more? Aside from the food tasting shit I would be extremely bothered about the likes of their hygiene and was I at risk of getting food poisoning etc

YABU completely.

Most people whose food I have eaten can cook, and do it very well.
I usually cook from scratch, although we had a curry from M and S last night as I am not feeling very well.

We eat a wide range of cuisines in our house, and I'm happy and proud to say that 22 year old DD has followed in my footsteps and cooks properly as well.