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That works for a harassed parent on a budget. Some people just aren't good cooks. Nobody forces anyone to buy food in a box. Thinks like that are sold because people buy them. Feel free to not buy them.

Then do it.

"Tasting menus" are common here. Sushi, pasta, high tea. The price is usually around $150, but can be $600, matched wines $300 more.

That sort of thing happens when you have too many billionaires.

Restaurant food in San Francisco is about half the price of Los Angeles or New York and, in my opinion, much better. We have farmers' markets with wonderful, just-picked, affordable produce. Ours has food trucks and an oyster guy too.

You said it. Nothing higher than a slime mold will eat them. ;)

(They taste just like Pringles, but don't get me started--bet I can't diss just one.) ;)

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Phil Hobbs

It's the toasted buttered breadcrumbs on top that make it, plus the caramelized Cheddar + jack cheese on the bottom.

Best eaten with a generous amount of Worcester sauce and a small amount of ketchup.(*)

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Phil Hobbs

(*) Bewildered Frenchman: "It's a sort of tomato sauce that Americans put on everything!"

Me neither, but Mo makes a fabulous dressing. She mixes it up in the bottom of a big bowl and then throws the greens in.

Mayo brings us to the edge of divorce. She literally can't stand the sight of it, so I hide the bottle behind the toaster when I use it.

I have two daughters. One loves mayo and one detests it. It must be a single gene.

Try a bit of maple syrup. It balances the vinegar. I like that, but I'm biased towards sweet.

Heinz/Kerry has weird seasonings, to me. Del Monte is OK. I make New Orleans style cocktail sauce to jazz it up; ketchup, lots of horseradish, lemon juice, salt, tabasco. We grow Meyer lemons in the back yard.

Oh, we were out in the Sunset neighborhood and accidentally found bialis!

Craig, of Craigslist, started his web site on the same block. He used to get lunch on 9th ave and pontificate in a loud voice.

The government began rationing certain foods in May 1942, starting with sugar. Coffee was added to the list that November, followed by meats, fats, canned fish, cheese, and canned milk the following March.

One reason is they like to eat things they cannot grow. It is not just population density it is climate and soil.

When was the last time Britain fed itself? Probably the early 19th century. Though it raises the question: where’s the boundary? The British Isles? Europe? Scotland wouldn’t do well alone, because most of the UK’s arable land is in the south.

Nowadays seafood and fruits can be flown all over the world. When I was a kid in New Orleans, we would eat shrimp and oysters and redfish because hamburger was too expensive. Now all that seafood is exported and is expensive.

When Paul Prudhomme invented Blackened Redfish, it almost destroyed the species.

They call it compot de tomat or something frenchy like that.

Mo's favorite meal, which I dutifully prepare to save our marriage, is fried shrimp on Hawaiian buns with tater tots. Gotta admit it's pretty good.

OreIda of course.

The Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen kicked out Scottish crofters to the USA in ancient times because sheep generated revenue without asking for their share and took care of themselves.

It's more that it worked as long as the cheap workers from Poland, UA e.a. were allowed to do the dirty jobs. Now that they are un-imported it shows that the Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen are unwilling to crawl through the fields or to drive trucks all day long because it smells like real work.

More like the English fishings rights are long-term-owned by just a few GB families and companies, and they sell where the money is, as much as possible. And the French oyster banks in Normandy now have a chance to recover. And the small fishermen in southern England start to sit on hot coals, now that the EU subsidies are gone. It does not pay to bite the feeding hand.

No longer allowed? How does the EU hinder you? Just do it, if you can. No one cares. And when there are no tomatoes in GB supermarkets, just find some Lords to drive the trucks from Southern Spain to Dover or wherever and bring them over your frontier before they are rotten.

BTW: I assume, the NHS is in stellar shape, now that the claimed 350 MPounds a week are invested there? You remember the red election tour bus, don't you?

Gerhard

We do not and cannot produce enough to eat the things we *don't* like.

Well, I suppose I can overlook that, given that she's such a splendid person otherwise.

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Phil Hobbs

Do you mean when Americans only had 15 different kinds of ice cream flavours?

In the UK, you can buy macaroni cheese in cans or plastic trays to heat. But you have to add the topping (grated cheese plus packet breadcrumbs) before you put it in a conventional oven (or under a grill).

What about cauliflower cheese? Do you eat that?

Not a question of being 'not allowed', but one of various tariffs being imposed on certain products that could be produced within the EU.

Wouldn’t want to harm the vulnerable German banana farming sector, after all.

We are really into Hawaiian buns lately. I make tiny teriyaki burger sliders, and I make her teriyaki purple onion sliders.

I'm a boomer but my parents didn't mention rationing. I think they got a lot of local stuff without much difficulty.

New cars were not available. I was born in an ancient 1936 Ford.

Dark days.

I was at Safeway last week and wanted to get some vanilla ice cream. There wasn't any. There were about 20 weird flavors, mango and banana and worse. I got dulce de leche, as close as they had.

Try to buy plain potato chips. They are hard to find.