NT they've really gone and done it now!

Based on the other two threads, am I the only Gran who's not a member of the NT?

(And I don't like cake)

Yep, Riverwalk definitely the only one!

Reminds me of yr 11 Food Tech GCSE controlled assessment.

'Modify a traditional flapjack recipe to make a healthier alternative.'

Trekking round a stately home, walled gardens and parkland needs a calorific reward IMO.

This is typical NT, more political posturing. They could just as easily have introduced this cake into their cafes as a new product, which it is, entirely different from basic flapjack, promoted it, perhaps made fewer flapjacks and nobody would have noticed.

But no, not them, they have to do lots of value-signalling about how politically correct they are in following government guidelines on sugar content. They will get a lot of free publicity, lots of complaints, they will withdraw the new product, go back to flapjacks, but they will be left with a bit more glitter on their value-signalling pc halo and can retreat to their offices and enjoy the feeling, once again of being holier than thou and slightly martyred because they meant so well but those ignorant people,the British public, wouldn't follow their guidance.

nope I'm not a member either and I make lots of cake but dont EAT cake

Let's hope Jill Archer does not take a trip to an NT property or she might express her feelings in a dangerous fashion.

I am a member, but a very disgruntled one.

We had lunch in an NT property last week, three adults, 2 children; 2 baked potatoes with tuna salad and colslaw, 2 chicken and vegetable soups (delicious) and a ploughmans. 5 empty plates and no cakes, no flapjacks or replacements, not because we were eating to approved government standards, just didn't want any, we were full.

Does this mean if we eat flapjacks we are homophobic?

I'm not a member but only because they don't have many properties in this area.

What have they done to the flapjack? Are we still allowed to say flapjack or does it now have another meaning?

A whole can of worms about flapjacks, as VQ says is there a hidden meaning ? and do we have to wear a lanyard to eat one ?

Anniebach

Have you read the link vq? That explains all.

Sorry for some reason didn't see the link....I'm having a flakey day [embarrassed].

Dear Lord, a healthy flapjack! That's a total contradiction in terms. Flapjacks are supposed to be squidgy sweet blocks of enamel stripping joy not a healthy seed bar. If I want to eat bird seed I'll share the feeding trays. If I want a gooey, sweet treat I'll have a flapjack.

I'm not an NT member... it's not been attractive enough to join. When I do go to a NT property, once in a blue moon, I'm happy to pay the admission fee.

I have a John Lewis card, they give me free tea and cake

H and I are not a members either.
We enjoy a good piece of cake though.

We are not members either, but regularly walk the Longshaw Estate in the Peak District which has a very good tearoom near the car park. When GS comes with us, he always has flapjack. I know he won't look at anything that has seeds in it, so he is going to be mega disappointed! Why not introduce the seedy bar thing alongside the flapjack and let people decide for themselves? Or can we not be trusted to use our own good judgement when it comes to eating healthily or not? Should NT now be called The Nanny Trust?

Exactly Greyduster. The National Trust has jumped on the health bandwagon. One of the joys of visiting their properties is a visit to the tearoom. DH thinks it's a huge great to have a slice of cake. Why meddle with he flapjack recipe? We are all adults, we don't need someone else to decide what we should eat!?

A choice would be a good thing. Sometimes I'm in the mood for something nutty and seedy, other times I just want a big wodge of syrupy, buttery comfort food, maybe with chocolate on top. Or even a small wodge; as someone says, the portions are often huge, so they could offer half-portions as well as large ones.

I'm not an NT member either and I don't really care what they sell in their tearooms but that is not a flapjack!

Wonder if they can be 'had' under the Trades Descriptions Act!

Annie a from me, too...

I live too close to our NT property to bother to eat there, but there's a lot of praise from them wot do. So the food must be good.

However flapjacks have a fixed list of ingredients otherwise they're not flapjacks. Definitely a breach of the Food Description Act.

Just as a matter of interest are we talking just English NT re the lanyard
and the flapjack?

We are! I am sure the Scottish do it better. Thankfully the sanctimonious prig of a director general of English NT is leaving. Hopefully, she will be replaced, by someone normal.

Well, anyone on the FODMAP diet (IBS) won`t be able to eat the new version because of the apricots and peaches, so that`s something else I can`t have when I want a treat after slogging round a stately home!

I don't like flapjack ( anyone want to make something of it?)