Mintball wrote:I think Coddy's made a really important point, about education.
Ignoring the chicken-and-egg matter of what has killed off cooking skills for so many, it seems fairly logical to suggest that, for people to eat properly, they need some skills that many simply do not. So how do you re-introduce such skills?
It seems to me that there are two parts to this: the need to educate children and the need to educate older people/parents. The former is, in theory at least, easier than the latter. But it's not going to be helped if schools are allowed to ignore national minimum standards for school dinners etc. Accademies can already opt out; free schools will be able to too.
Because either the issue is genuinely important - and therefore a matter for the state - or it's a fuss about nothing.
I think you're over egging the 'skills' required. Peeling a couple of spuds and carrots, putting them in a pan of water and heating them up is not, IMO, a skill!
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Look in the chilled fresh veg section of any supermarket now and you'll find mashed potato, mashed swede, peeled & sliced or diced carrots etc etc etc. I must admit to occasionally buying mashed potato & swede but that's only because Morrison's have knocked it down to £0.09p and it would cost more in gas to boil the spuds.
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cod'ead wrote:Look in the chilled fresh veg section of any supermarket now and you'll find mashed potato, mashed swede, peeled & sliced or diced carrots etc etc etc. I must admit to occasionally buying mashed potato & swede but that's only because Morrison's have knocked it down to £0.09p and it would cost more in gas to boil the spuds.
You'll lose your skills. Then, they'll up their prices to nine quid and you'll be stuffed.
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Dally wrote:You'll lose your skills. Then, they'll up their prices to nine quid and you'll be stuffed.
Yeah just like when I bought a car, I immediately forgot how to ride a bike
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Advice is what we seek when we already know the answer - but wish we didn't
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cod'ead wrote: "I have just snotted weissbier all over my keyboard & screen"
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin." - Aneurin Bevan
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