The Great British Vomitorium

Will Who? I Googled him but it hasn't really helped. I'll have to pay more attention to who's on Question Time.

Looking out of the window at a dreary dark drizzle outside, why shouldn't we have a bit of a blow out at Christmas. It's traditional. Yes, some people go a bit overboard, but when watching the pennies all year a break is needed. The problem I think is all the media hype and pressure which pushes the less strong willed into going just a bit too far.

Having worked in three different supermarkets over the years I have to say that the amount of food people buy at Christmas is jawdropping. We used to have the same people coming in day after day stacking up trolley loads of the stuff. Of course when you read about the number of people who don't know what to do with leftovers you can begin to understand it. Some of them must be cooking from fresh for every meal. The only things I've got leftover now are half the cake, which will keep for ages, a few vegetables and a lot of cheese which again will last for quite a while.

We had the very last of the turkey soup today. I always stock up like mad before Christmas because there's nothing nicer than not having to give a monkeys about food shopping until it's all eaten.

This article was broadcast again this morning on Radio 4. I listened all the way through. Finished up not knowing quite WTF he was on about.

At first it seemed to be "if you can't pig out at Xmas, when can you?" - which I heartily agreed with. Then he launched into modern day more adventurous British cooking as compared with yesterday (our era!) and that's when I lost him. Then he was talking about food banks.

I think he meant, it's ok to enjoy food but not too much as the people at the end of the road might not have enough.

No shit sherlock. I think.

I didn't know about the heroin habit!

He looks as th0ugh he's never quite got over it.

I'm so relieved that others don't know what the heck he's talking about. It's always been an Emperor's New Clothes thing with me and his writing. You can fool some of the people some of the time etc etc [but y'can't fool us gransnetters...]

crimson it's the BBB syndrome! Bullsh*t baffles brains...

Peerhaps a résumé would be that we have totally lost our natural relationship with food. That more and more we oscillate between obscene over-eating and obsessive dieting, and that the huge number of cooking programmes on TV, whilst more and more ready-made and take away/fast food is consumed- is becoming totally ridiculous. And in many ways, it makes sense, no? He does make me laugh - so like many things, I do not seem to fit in anywhere (which is totally fine, lol). Bonne Année à toutes (et tous).

WE do eat well in Germany at Christmas but there is more the expectation of eating something a bit more special. I don't miss Xmas Pudding or mince pies anymore and have much less indigestion than when I continued to make them.

My complete family met up for an evening meal on Xmas Day and each brought a speciality for the buffet type meal. The children were soon finished and were dispatched upstairs to play and we grown ups sat on for 4 hours just talking. It was lovely. - and no TV!