Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Food items
My first is to report that McDonalds have started to sell a kind of coffee which contains coffee; an important fact which we picked up somewhere along the way to London yesterday. Which reminded me of the piece in one of the papers last week to the effect that superior people like ourselves like to knock Mcdonalds without giving them fair recognition for the huge amount of food they give you for your pound. In a more sensible world this might be regarded as a good thing; which it certainly would be if they ever get around to spreading into the drier & dodgier parts of Africa. That said, it is a while since I have been in such a place - although I might add that they are best known to some people that I know as having the cleanest toilets in late night central London on offer.
My second, following on from Bertolli margarine yesterday, is that the label on our jar of Sainbury's basic jam tells us that in order to make a better spreading product they have lowered the amount of lump & seed (also a pain with dentures) bearing fruit they put in the stuff. Down to 33g to the 100g, compared with the 100g to the 100g of the home made of my childhood. The arithmetic working because one boiled an awful lot of the water off of the 100g of fruit during manufacture.
My third is to report the first neck of lamb stew of the 2011-2012 season. At £10 a good bit cheaper than those which I was buying in the spring. It may have been a bit smaller and cooking for 2 hours was perhaps a touch too long - although the resultant broth will go down well in tomorrow's breakfast. A new feature was the butcher sawing the neck through longitudinally before chopping across: the resultant lumps were both more attractive and easier to deal with. Served with white cabbage with about three quarters of a small one not being quite enough for the two of us.
# posted by Jim @ 5:48 AM 
