[Tax-chick]

“Procurement partnerships should be encouraged with existing ready meal businesses or business start-ups, alongside an established distributor, to ensure a shepherd’s pie made of 100% Welsh ingredients is delivered to all Welsh public sector organisations who are contracted to provide food in Wales.

If I understand this correctly, the Baroness wants the government of Wales to support Welsh farmers by funding the production, using locally-grown ingredients, of Shepherd's Pie tv-dinners for recipients of free food from the government of Wales. Very nice, and all that ... but I have two questions:

1. How does any actual money ever get into the system? and
2. How did they make Shepherd's Pie before they got potatoes from South America? With turnips? Parsnips?

[MUDDOG]

I always wondered about them having potatoes in Middle-earth.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Don't know about the first but the second I can answer. It was baked in a crust back in the day when it was called "Cumberland Pie". The Shepherd's pie and Cottage pie variations did not come along until there were potatoes.