Britons are defrosting decades-old diets

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Fruit is out; fry-ups are in

the panic-buying and the stockpiling. As soon as it became clear that covid-19 was spreading through Britain, shoppers hit the grocery stores. Everything with a long shelf life was swept into trolleys—pasta, tinned beans, bottled water. People even cleared the shelves of pickled onions, recalls Peter Batt, who oversees the Co-Op’s convenience stores in southern England. “They were thinking a wartime sort of scenario,” he says., a pollster, that they had gained weight.

Old-fashioned foods are back. Over the past few decades the Family Food Survey has tracked a gradual decline in the eating of eggs and bacon. Britons are now consuming more of both, presumably in leisurely breakfast fry-ups. Sausages are selling well, too . Ready meals, the rise of which had come to seem inexorable, have not kept up with the general rise in grocery sales. They were often bought on the way home from the office.

There seems to be a limit to how much time Britons will spend cooking, though. Although sales of mince and burgers have shot up, joints of beef and lamb are less popular than a year ago. It may be that Britons associate joints with large, slow meals with their extended families. Those have not been happening.

 

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Ready meals are disgusting and making hospital patients ill

I read that as 'Bitcoins' first and boy did I have questions.

The british are not famous as very good in cooking. Here in the southernmost parts of America, for example (Brazil, Andean countries, etc.), people are more used to cook and to have access to fresh ingredients. Even during pandemic times.

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