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Our hero takes aim at the Remainer elite who, er, want to cook food at home.

I'd hazard a guess that all of those things cost comfortably less than the fish fingers or tinned pies which True Patriots should be eating. Twat.

Twitter makes it much harder to post links, but I think somebody adds it up BTL and it came to £11 at Tesco.

Lemons and beans.

Only criticism I would have it’s buying bottled water, I know it can be crap in London but get a filter.

mattomac wrote: ↑Mon Aug 30, 2021 8:12 pm Only criticism I would have it’s buying bottled water, I know it can be crap in London but get a filter.

I haven't used our water filter since Mrs. B passed - she wouldn't touch tap water otherwise.

Maybe the person likes fizzy water though?

Despite making a tit of himself earlier, he's still at it. Take that, Guardian, with your foreign words.

What do working class people want with Mexican food?

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Mon Aug 30, 2021 9:38 pm What do working class people want with Mexican food?

A 2-quid recipe for a family of four on a site that isn't pay-walled by a weirdo remaining twin? Clearly, being a superannuated xenophobe is quite easy when your universal credit isn't about to go south.

I'm wondering when Paul's going to mention Universal Credit. If everybody's wages are going up, like he seems to think, that's not good for people unable to work. I'm sure he'll mention this in a minute, and not just bang out another tweet about elitist home cooking.

Whatever happened to "Nothing is too good for the working class"?

Paul's a fairly aspirational guy, with his book, column with Unherd and spot on GB News. Seems odd for him to think that cooking nice food is getting above your station.

I have some sympathy for Paul on this one. Guardian recipes can make cheese on toast look poncey and a faff to make.

Youngian wrote: ↑Tue Aug 31, 2021 10:07 am I have some sympathy for Paul on this one. Guardian recipes can make cheese on toast look poncey and a faff to make.

Aimed at people who drive their electric SUV to the local Free Trade supermarket and step over the homeless bloke on their way in.

I find the Guardian and especially Observer Food Monthly easily the best inspiration for interesting, seasonal cooking. Granted, the cost of the Cime de Rapa can be a touch daunting, but I have never felt intimidated by the method.

And besides, criticism of the Guardian's recipes is missing the point - they are there to inspire and amuse with their out-thereness. They aren't suggestions for Thursday's dinner.

And some of them (especially the middle-eastern ones) are very nice.

It's odd; perhaps a sign of my heading towards sixty, but I am developing a taste for the simplicity of 50s and 60s cookery - the sort of stuff that appeared in recipe books that accompanied your new electric cooker...

Lots of people take the piss out of foodies, including other foodies. What amuses me is that you can hear Paul's mind whirring. "I'll have you, Remainer food people" after fucking up by mocking somebody buying lemons, beans and soy sauce.

"If you're a socialist why don't you live on bread and water?"

See also: smartphones, motor vehicle ownership...

Boiler wrote: ↑Tue Aug 31, 2021 1:07 pm It's odd; perhaps a sign of my heading towards sixty, but I am developing a taste for the simplicity of 50s and 60s cookery - the sort of stuff that appeared in recipe books that accompanied your new electric cooker...

Marguerite Patten, the Nigella of her age and your childhood, was the bees knees. My own mother was a keen follower and, once money became less tight, basically cooked fan-food. We lapped it up.

On reflection, there were a few horror shows - Sainsbury's tinned mince in a spag bol, for example - but there were some real highlights like lambs' kidneys Provençale, a corking Pavlova, and no end of variations on traditional stuffing.

Olive oil was only available from the chemist, mind.