The state of British cooking | 1970s British cooking | Vincent Price | Claire Rayner |Part 2 |1972 

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@@nowherepeople3431 ofcom has destroyed British Television

100% agree with you MaryHildreth754.

This woke world we live in today has ruined many things we enjoyed from classic movies, books and television shows.

What bemuses me is that 99%of stuff people get offended about isn't offensive

What is Vincent price doing there?

He'd done a series 'Cooking Price-Wise' for Thames the year before.@@pod9538

@@pod9538 As well as being a movie star Vincent Price was an excellent cook and enthusiastic foodie, He wrote two well received cookery books with his second wife Mary, and hosted TV shows on food.

Exactly. This “conversation” is simply about opening up the nation to mass immigration.

No, it's not to do with multiculturalism, but all to do with availability. The basic British diet was very limited and absurdly carbohydrate based for a sheer lack of lack of choice. The old two meat and veg.

@@t.p.mckenna Yes, perhaps they should move on to critiquing the Irish for subsisting on Potatoes but no let’s just ignore historical and geographical factors and just tell them their food sucks and needs more spice. 🤦‍♀️

Don't fool yourself, It's for the realization that british gastronomy is as good as Lord of the rings orcs'

@@JulioLeonFandinho I’m not trying to tell anyone British food is “the best” as if it were some kind of supremacist competition. I just don’t like people who are not from here telling us on British tv we and our customs are no good and teaching us to loathe our own culture which is precisely what this show is about.

British food does suck tho. The indians saved yall with their curry

The idea is suspect from first principles. All British people don't cook the same things, nor do all French people. Region has an enormous impact on the availability of ingredients, the quality of them, the style of cooking. In the West Country we cook with a much wider variety of vegetables than much of the rest of England, in other areas there's an abundance of fish. The difference in Roman cooking from Tuscan or Venetian is startling. The south of France is massively different than the north. Defining "British food" is in itself an exercise in futility. Whence came chips? Fried fish are common around the world, the species differs by region in England alone let alone the vast difference between England, Wales and Scotland. The traditional cuisine of Wales is more akin to French than English. Is Tikka Masala Indian or British? More popular in England for certain, even at the time of this show. Farmers and butchers used to eat sweetmeats and offal as a matter of course, so too in France and Italy. Smoked bacon is common to England and Spain. There's nothing particularly uncommon about the vast majority of ingredients in British cooking that separates it from Europe as a whole. Two things that probably are true: the British tend to be conservative about food, disdaining what they personally haven't tried; curiously this reticence doesn't extend to fast food chains by and large, and secondly there is a terrible tendency to overcook whether by boiling or roasting everything to the point of ruin. Those indictments are perhaps fair but certainly not universal.

@@alexmckee4683 Well said! You’re right, this show was completely reductionist and clearly resorted to the silliest of stereotypes, the like of which we are told to avoid in the name of inclusion and tolerance. 🙏🏻

"TV was great in many respects, but it was so heteronormative." Yup, everything this individual says can be disregarded for this stupidity alone.