Championing Proper British Food and Drink

Well I'm descended from a pig farmer on one side and a gamekeeper on the other but we had very simple food in our home and my mother was not a good cook. When she retired she started to enjoy cooking. I had a french boyfriend at one stage and he will probably remember all the egg and chips presented to him...I still cringe at the thought.  (It probably confirmed his worst ideas about British food.)

I can remember seeing avocados on trips to London, they were a totally alien species but I love them now unfortunately they're not on the uk growing list. 

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Anyone a fan of Gingerbread, I always make a trip to Grasmere for my gingerbread fix. LINK

😱 Before we were married, I often had Sunday lunch with OH’s family. One of his brother’s worked for a pig farmer, and the family bought half a pig. For some reason they decided to roast the half head one particular day. Apparently it was too much for me and I had to leave the table rather shaky. I think that’s when I realised meat was no longer for me...... That and another Butcher BIL chasing me around with a severed pig’s ear! 

 

A big +1 there. The queues there during the October half term were the longest I've ever seen, and not just because of the 2m rule either

Fish, with due respect I know of quite a few farmers who use treated human waste on the land because it is both natural & very cheap give me that rather than man made chemicals any day, it’s marketed as ultimate recycling at its best. If the scientists, Govt & the farmers say it’s good then I’m happy. I’ve been eating the veg & fruit it produces since it has been available👍🏻

We popped in there a good few years ago. I asked “do you have any gingerbread?”. I just got a blank look. They obviously hadn’t seen the ‘cheese shop sketch’ (Monty Python) 😀

When my daughter got a Christmas job in Poundland a few years back we would go in and ask her while she was self stacking - how much is this? and that? that one? what about this? you mean everything's a pound wow that is good value.

I think it goes back to pre history actually😉 Never stayed on a farm yet where the effluent wasn’t recycled. We used to sell bags of it back when we had a horse😂

Mind, you can definitely tell when it’s human rather than animal that is being spread🤢

I remember being  young when the lad from the local stables used to come round selling horse-poo for the garden. They used to say it was all hand picked