Vegetables? What are those?
Mar 20th, 2007 by Oana
Hot on the heels of my last post about buying vegetables in Scotland, the Scotsman newspaper comes out with this doozie of an article:Â “It’s Spag Bol, again and again”.
I’ll spare you reading it if you don’t feel like clicking over. The gist is that the average Scots household’s menu has a grand total of 4.0 dishes on it. The British average is 4.1 dishes. The most common dishes are spaghetti bolognese, stew, sausages and mash and fish and chips, with chilli con carne and chicken tikka masala being popular alternatives.
This is my favourite quote in the article, from a nutritionist:
If you’re making a stew for instance, you could try throwing in some more veg, and even a kidney or two.
REALLY! A kidney? What’s next? A heart? Some intestines? Oh wait … that’s called haggis.
People! What about skipping the meat altogether? Have you heard of these amazing things called vegetables? Oh wait, maybe you haven’t … or would never actually buy them because they have French names! You wouldn’t want to support those darned French by eating their vegetables, now would you?