I really need to visit Britishland again, not just for personal reasons but to do my bit to reverse an alarming trend.
This is the most depressing article I’ve read all week, and it may explain a whole lot about the nation that Britishland has become:
Brits are eating less meat, potatoes and bread than ever before, according to data tracking the nation’s food purchases over the last six decades.
Red meat consumption has plunged by up to 81 per cent since the 70s amid health fears, the steady rise of veganism and growing concerns about climate change.
Then again, perhaps it’s the slow brain death caused by a low-meat / vegan diet that has allowed a nation of skeptics to become a nation of fearful wussies: where the .Britgov can pass a law that makes ownership of cars illegal by a certain date without said .Britgov being sent en masse to the gallows, and where Brits can not only get arrested for posting mean tweets, but allow themselves to be arrested therefor.
But all this has just made me want to add a little something to my morning breakfast (and it’s not a second gin, shuddup):
Excuse me…
A more prosaic but more likely cause is the precipitous drop in the quality of supermarket meat coupled with disappearing independent butchers. In my closest village, all three butchers have closed shop. A slightly larger town nearby had four and is now down to (a very expensive) one. Supermarket meat is badly butchered, fatty, gristly and tough, not having been aged. The surge in inflation just added to the trend.
The same goes for the quality of supermarket chicken, fish and eggs. It might seem to be difficult to ruin eggs. Well, for one thing, they are never fresh, and the shells so thin that the heat of boiling regularly bursts the eggs from the rise in air pressure in the egg’s air pocket. Try frying them? The yolk membranes are so thin and weak that the yolk bleeds all over the white before the egg sets. Don’t even try over easy – auto scramblers is what you get.
Small farm butcheries are our only hope for getting quality worth eating, and you may imagine the prices. On the plus side, SOME online retailers with direct lines to farm-butchers ares till able to deliver reasonable quality.
I’d say most people with day jobs and families to feed don’t have the time to live like latter-day hunter-gatherers, so chicken and fish it is sometimes with lots of ready meals, pizza and mcdonald’s hockey pucks.
It most likely is because of the cost.
Have you looked at chicken breasts lately? Insane.
$18 for a standard ribeye? Please.
We still eat some form of meat at every meal but not like the old daze.
Doubtful I’ll ever knowingly eat bugs….cept big, fat, juicy water bugs that resemble lobsters and shrimps.
victim disarmament, veganism, socialism, are there any more dreadful plights to inflict upon man?
JQ
Do you live in or near a “sanctuary” town (not just a city, any such town?} Do you have a bedroom not currently in use?
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my home like the parts of America inhabited by smart people are off limits to criminal migrants.
JQ
My first time hearing “root-cause” was from some American bureaucrat called ‘kamala harris’.
Considering the HighlyPlaced [‘LowestCommonDenominator’] source, I thought:
q — ‘how is “root-cause” different from regular cause?’
a — in the situation with mrs. harris, that would be another example of some imbecile adding unnecessary words, attempting to sound smart and impress the marks, but creating the opposite.
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At that point, deep inside my logical brain, something clicked.
I vowed to never use that combination of words…
…unless I am talking at a drone from the Hive.
In that case, I think it’s open-season for inserting any idiotic blathering nonsensical NewSpeak:
* Root-sources.
* Root-fundamentals and Root-foundations.
* Root-exclusions and Root-conclusions.
* Root-faults using Root-methods.
On my next traveling root-adventure, I will take root-routes as I head to my root-destination.