Haha. Yeah. Seriously though ... there's a huuuuuge space between growing your own cows and American domestic "cookery".
Mixing processed food with soggy pasta is not a recipe. Even if you sprinkle crackers on top. It's why you're all dying of fatness and scurvy.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 30 Jan 2013, 18:16, 3 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4zw99VsoMA
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 30 Jan 2013, 18:21, Reply)

speaking of fatness and scurvy...

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 30 Jan 2013, 18:23, Reply)

Oh well played. Nicely done.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Wed 30 Jan 2013, 18:24, Reply)

I knew you still loved me, Battso.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 30 Jan 2013, 18:26, Reply)

Calm down dear.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Wed 30 Jan 2013, 18:27, Reply)

PFFFFFT

( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 30 Jan 2013, 18:27, Reply)

did you just fart again?

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 30 Jan 2013, 18:29, Reply)

no
it was the noise of your weary and exhausted hamster crawling out of your withered ass
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 30 Jan 2013, 18:30, Reply)

you do have a rather peculiar obsession with me.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 30 Jan 2013, 18:33, Reply)

listen up
It's a fair point however food is insanely expensive here, especially to eat good, organic unprocessed yadda yadda
Ignoring that, people generally don't care
Point being tell someone else because I've been here long enough to have heard this same speech 5,000 times from you
( Lisette von Falcon, Wed 30 Jan 2013, 18:28, Reply)

i love mac n cheese
stole a nice healthy american recipe with wholegrain pasta, spinach and low-fat cottage cheese off the internet, fucking NOM.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 30 Jan 2013, 18:30, Reply)

Christ.
You must really hate yourself.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 30 Jan 2013, 19:05, Reply)

well yes
catholic guilt innit
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 30 Jan 2013, 19:14, Reply)

You should become a Buddhist.
They've managed to reverse the traditional theist guilt into unbearable smugness.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 30 Jan 2013, 19:22, Reply)

^this
I've seen how insanely expensive Whole Foods is.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Wed 30 Jan 2013, 18:30, Reply)

the one near me on high st kensington pays for your parking (at the £10 an hour NCP opposite)
if you spend over £75.

one box of salad and a bottle of water later...

i do love it there though.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 30 Jan 2013, 18:31, Reply)

It is a nice shop. Better value food at Harrods though.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Wed 30 Jan 2013, 18:32, Reply)

if you fill a box with their different salads
it's dinner for about 3 days straight
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 30 Jan 2013, 18:37, Reply)

Fresh fruit and vegetables don't have to be organic to be healthy

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Wed 30 Jan 2013, 18:31, Reply)

Easy tiger. It wasn't a personal attack.
I was attacking exactly the things you're complaining about: the food available is shit and the people don't give enough of a shit to fix it. And as a consequence you have the most expensive healthcare system in the world and you're all still dying of avoidable diseases. That's a pretty fucking appalling situation, don't you think?
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 30 Jan 2013, 19:07, Reply)

you should start a campaign

( Lisette von Falcon, Wed 30 Jan 2013, 19:16, Reply)

I couldn't be arsed so I sent some pleb with a speech impediment and an angry ex-wannabe-footballer instead.
Apparently they were a MASSIVE SUCCESS and it's all better now.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 30 Jan 2013, 19:18, Reply)

AND I LET MY DOG LICK THE PLATE WHEN I WAS DONE TOO

( Lisette von Falcon, Wed 30 Jan 2013, 19:02, Reply)

Just out of interest
How much would a fair sized slab of steak cost at your local butchers?
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Wed 30 Jan 2013, 19:11, Reply)

probably around $12

( Lisette von Falcon, Wed 30 Jan 2013, 19:14, Reply)

That isn't that expensive
But if you have cheaper options I can see why people would be reluctant to spend that.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Wed 30 Jan 2013, 19:18, Reply)

there are many people here that eat meat from a tin and would only dream of a steak
Let alone a $12 one
( Lisette von Falcon, Wed 30 Jan 2013, 19:25, Reply)

i mean really the first time i bought a steak that expensive was when i had a bonus at work
Would a normal family buy $12 steaks for each person in their family as just a normal meal?
I must be cheap as well as poor
( Lisette von Falcon, Wed 30 Jan 2013, 19:31, Reply)

No idea what the exchange rate is like at the moment
But £12 wouldn't get you much in the way of size or quality in the UK.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Wed 30 Jan 2013, 19:32, Reply)

Depends on what kind of steak
You won't get the chattoux but you'd get three nice ribeyes.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 30 Jan 2013, 19:33, Reply)

Decent fillet's about £25 a kilo

( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Wed 30 Jan 2013, 19:35, Reply)

that's fucking crazy
That's like a full tank of gas
( Lisette von Falcon, Wed 30 Jan 2013, 19:37, Reply)

I wish.
A full tank for me is almost eighty quid.

We're about £5 a gallon over here...
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Wed 30 Jan 2013, 19:39, Reply)

ohmygod
That's mental
( Lisette von Falcon, Wed 30 Jan 2013, 19:43, Reply)

So ... now that we've adjusted your concept of "expensive" ... remind me again why you lot are all simultaneously feeding and starving yourselves to death?

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 30 Jan 2013, 19:46, Reply)

That's not really an adjustment
How many people there have cars? We don't have a public transport system like you lot do
Car payments are anywhere from $350-600 that's one to two pay checks for most people
( Lisette von Falcon, Wed 30 Jan 2013, 19:51, Reply)

The rate of car ownership is pretty much the same in Europe as in the US.
I'm not sure what you mean.

Your original argument was that people ate shite because anything else was "insanely expensive". Things are typically more expensive in Europe but people don't eat nearly as much shite.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 30 Jan 2013, 20:06, Reply)

Have you SEEN the Iceland adverts?

( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Wed 30 Jan 2013, 20:16, Reply)

No. I don't watch ITV.
Is it pertinent to the conversation or are you just an unusual flirt?
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 30 Jan 2013, 20:18, Reply)

People on low incomes (and with no inclination to cook)
tend to eat over processed shit because it's cheap and easy.


you know, like your mum.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Wed 30 Jan 2013, 20:23, Reply)

My mum is retired and in the middle of building a house so I made her a bunch of canned meals and some confit of duck.
So you're basically right.

I'm still not sure what this has to do with the fact that the world's last superpower and the wealthiest country on the planet has a population that is eating itself to death with cheap shit.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 30 Jan 2013, 20:25, Reply)

you implied that while America did that, WE didn't.
I'm just pointing out that quite a large proportion of the UK actually does.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Wed 30 Jan 2013, 20:30, Reply)

No I didn't.
I suggested that the US is profoundly worse. Which it is. I have no idea why anybody is defending the pretty horrific fact that a quarter of a billion of the wealthiest people on the planet are eating themselves to an early grave with tasteless sugary pap. It isn't defensible.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 30 Jan 2013, 22:48, Reply)

Tell me about it.
I worked out when I first got my car that it was $3.15 a gallon.
Even back then my American friends thought that was expensive.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Wed 30 Jan 2013, 19:49, Reply)

A full tank of petrol over here is about £100.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 30 Jan 2013, 19:41, Reply)

you could get rump for about 15 on the bone.

(PsychoChomp, Wed 30 Jan 2013, 19:39, Reply)

You could probably get fillet for that too
if you didn't buy it at the supermarket.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Wed 30 Jan 2013, 19:40, Reply)

seriously?
That's insane
( Lisette von Falcon, Wed 30 Jan 2013, 19:38, Reply)

Yeah right. As if you eat off plates and don't just snaffle it straight from the microwave dish.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 30 Jan 2013, 19:11, Reply)

i eat it frozen
Meat popsicles are my favourite
( Lisette von Falcon, Wed 30 Jan 2013, 19:15, Reply)

Foxy.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 30 Jan 2013, 19:17, Reply)

Not sure if they have double entendres in the US

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Wed 30 Jan 2013, 19:21, Reply)

Then she'd need two meat popsicles.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 30 Jan 2013, 19:22, Reply)