Posted on 10/18/2006 9:42:38 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
ROTHERHAM, England — Five months after the celebrity chef Jamie Oliver succeeded in cajoling, threatening and shaming the British government into banning junk food from its school cafeterias, many schools are learning that you can lead a child to a healthy lunch, but you can’t make him eat.
The fancy new menu at the Rawmarsh School here?
“It’s rubbish,” said Andreas Petrou, an 11th grader. Instead, en route to school recently, he was enjoying a north of England specialty known as a chip butty: a French-fries-and-butter sandwich doused in vinegar.
“We didn’t get a choice,” he said of the school food. “They just told us we were having it.”
The government’s regulations, which took effect in September, have banished from school cafeterias the cheap, instantly gratifying meals that children love by default: the hamburgers, the French fries, the breaded, deep-fried processed meat, the sugary drinks.
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Try to find PG Tips tea. I think you'll like it.
Loose tea is always the best!
I have high blood pressure and take pills every day for it. He won't be around for much longer eating butter, starches and salt in mass quantities..........
I'll keep my eyes out. I usually get loose tea now from a store called "Teavana" (I think it's a chain), but it's kind of expensive.
It's hard to find loose tea anymore here.........
I could actually recommend a couple to you. Seriously.
To be perfectly honest, brussel sprouts are one of the very few veggies I have no idea how to cook. No matter how I've ever eaten them, I have always found them to be nasty.
I'll be glad to take your suggestions!
Thanks. I'm really not a Yorkshire pudding fan. It's in my "put some curries on it and you'll yum it right up" category. I'll have to look for Langon's, especially if I stay in Bayswater.
That's a little sad, in a nostalgic sort of way.
I'm not sure where you are, but I'm assuming you're in the US, and I cannot suggest anywhere. Though I would've thought that there must be some places online that you can order from.
Really? Is that for all items?
you are right. I do not believe he is in the best of health.
French fries and butty sounds like the kind of snack those
TV "cooks" who called themselves "The Two Fat Ladies" would eat....One or both of them are now dead, rather prematurely. They used to tool around the English countryside in a motorcyle and sidecar. Their show was hilarious and horrifying at the same time. They prepared as if by DESIGN, the worst looking sludge I have EVER seen.
They really came across as a parody, or like a good SNL skit from the 70s/
There's a really fun web site called "Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down," based on a book about the whole ritual of British Teas. It gives great advice about biscuits, cakes and various teas. Check it out.
You know for all the flack the English get about their food (esp from the chauvinistic French), they have come up with some real winners. Yorkshire pudding as you mentioned, plus devonshire/cornish cream & hundreds of fabulous cheeses among them. And what about creme anglais? No snooty French pastry chef could exist without that in his repertoire.
I still say though, that if the kids have a proper English Breakfast, the question of what to have for lunch is moot-they don't need to eat another meal for the rest of the day.
Thanks.
It's only a savory meat pie with mashed peas on top. Think of it as a very thick and chunky split pea soup. You like meat & gravy? You like pastry crust? You like split pea soup? Right? Well?
I've actually had one at Harry's in Sydney. Fabulous. At the time he was located down by the Woolamaloo Naval Station. You would not believe the amount of business that little stand was doing. I had one with the HP Sauce and one with the curry sauce (squeeze bottles, like ketchup).
If you won't eat it that's OK. It holds down the price for the rest of us.
'La bonne cuisine est la base du véritable bonheur.' - Auguste Escoffier
(Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
Too bad. You're missing a great food.
Can you hear me applauding you? Great post.
I never ate brussels sprouts until I married an Irishman, and it turns out they are great, sort of like little cabbages. Just boil or steam them JUST until knife tender, don't let the color change. I think they are great with mashed potatoes & some nice ham. I don't make them anymore since he is out of the pic, but they are not bad.
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