Mass-produced food

[mamamea]

Isn't it horrible?

Unfortunately we've basically been upsold on everything. So if we eat standard spaghetti at 35p a packet the texture's all wrong because we're used to the £1/packet stuff.

Won't even touch those dodgy cheap sausages. Same goes for bacon, because we're used to the outdoor-reared one.

We bought a non-free range chicken from M&S, it was nasty (we usually get organic). The half-price New Zealand leg of lamb - tasteless (we usually get Welsh hill lamb, which has a nice heather flavour to it).

And as for those 2 pub lunches for £6 or whatever, just disgusting. I don't know how people eat such horrible rubbish.

I still like a bit of KFC though....

cutting back, sorry was distracted by all my Louis Vuitton handbags.

oooh no, lulu I didn't mean you, sorry!! I meant mamamea.

We are going almost veggie for a few months though so I can get away with it. & am stashing a few £££££'s just in case we struggle but am hoping not

how much was that though?

£4.50. A good two meals worth.

So who do you work for and what are you promoting?

By the way Twinset we buy oxtail and brisket and lamb shanks

Sorry mamamea

"Low temperature. Slow drying process. Bronze drawing. Made according to the same recipe of 100 years ago. De Cecco's is the first pasta certified for the distinctive quality of many parameters such as: high protein quality (gluten index above 70) to ensure the perfect firmness of pasta during cooking; use of high particle size (40% with diameter above 400 microns), to preserve the wholeness of gluten; kneaded with cold water (under 15 degrees C), that assures a sweeter taste and a better firmness during cooking; slow and low temperature drying: for spaghetti shape above 18 hours in order to preserve the natural characteristics of our semolina; coarse bronze drawing to give the pasta the ideal roughness that makes it adhere perfectly... to sauces. "

This is known as marketing. Others might call it bollocks.

And I speak as someone who worked for Buitoni for a number of years, and visited their Perugia factory.

You are lording it over people in an incredibly insensitive and unnecessary way.

I actually searched your name because I thought you must be a troll. Surprisingly you have been posting here for a while, which leads me, once again, to ask what you think you are trying to achieve with your OP?

We don't have a Waitrose near, but, I'd be interested in any other ideas/suggestions you might have that'd mean not having 4 or 5 out of 7 meals veggie for the month.

Well yes I'm sure some of it is marketing, but it's not all bollocks. The texture is very different.

And the drying temperatures and the like are just basic physics.

Here, a scientific study for you.

5gomad I wont tell dd she thinks you dine on posh food.

Of course being common myself I could not give examples of posh food.

we did have ethically produced veal tonight followed by Tesco's finest Apple pie.

See if you really were posh you'd call it rosé veal.

I'm not even bothering to read that link at this time of night. And if you really think that you can tell the difference between De Cecco and Buitoni, (or even - heavens - Sainsbury's) then more fool you. But if you can, then you should continue to pay your money for it.

We had chicken ( organic of course because I am considerably richer than most) with basil and cherry tomatoes ( organic and on the vine - smell the money!) and pasta (I bought Lloyd Grossman's which probably makes me a complete twit) and homemade millionaire shortbread for pudding ( all organic ingredients again because I am better than most people)

Buitoni may very well be ok. But they don't sell it where we shop. So I have no idea. But yes, I can certainly taste the difference between Sainsburys and De Cecco.

I think you need a hobby if you spend that muc time thinking about pasta.

Bah, what a commoner. Millionaire's shortbread is for the plebs. Those with money would not touch anything less than billionaire's shortbread.

Sorry, link www.pimpthatsnack.com/project/49/2

With genuine 24k gold, nothing less.

You see mamamea because I am also considerably nicer than you I make millionaire shortbread ( and I did check my facebook status) and donate the spare millions to those plebs who have to dine in a BOGOF pub.

So that would be nobody then? Unless they have BOGOF pub conscription camps now?

So this is nothing other than a wind up thread then, mamamea?

Nice.

Yes there is a huge BOGOF consription camp up north called Blackpool.

am baffled by the point of this thread

was it a piss take?

or wildly but unintentionally insensitive?

Me too, Lulu!

Gosh, another way of saying that even though I cook 90% from scratch, give my daughter a wide variety of meals, involve her with the cooking and do my absolute best to see she has a well balanced diet, I'm still crap because I can't afford what others can.

Nice