'Authentic' Food.......As if!!!
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Heys,
Something that's been irking me is why pubs/restaurants/etc are labelling as many items as possible with popular buzzwords such as 'authentic', 'rustique', and 'homemade'. They try and conjure up images of someone's Nana slaving away in a kitchen at home mixing up the perfect meal. I made a point recently of being aware when eating out how many places are using these terms in their menus, and I'm finding they're common across most eating establishments.
Are terms such as 'homemade' allowed to be used without any form of rules/guidelines? For example in the bistro/pub we ate in last night my pudding was (and I quote) 'homemade chocolate brownie, smoothered in an authentic chocolate sauce, covered with lashings of cream'. I asked the waitress when ordering how was it homemade and she giggled and said she didn't know, she said the brownie was from a box full of them.
When someone says authentic or rustique to me I imagine some italian/french style small village and someone slaving away hand making everything!! I don't think of some food processing plant in Banbury, which i'm sure is the more overwhelmingly likely place it's been made!!
I 'know' in the grand scheme of things it means nothing, as there's wars, poverty, and all that jazz....this just baffles me how it's taken off in recent years!!
Something that's been irking me is why pubs/restaurants/etc are labelling as many items as possible with popular buzzwords such as 'authentic', 'rustique', and 'homemade'. They try and conjure up images of someone's Nana slaving away in a kitchen at home mixing up the perfect meal. I made a point recently of being aware when eating out how many places are using these terms in their menus, and I'm finding they're common across most eating establishments.
Are terms such as 'homemade' allowed to be used without any form of rules/guidelines? For example in the bistro/pub we ate in last night my pudding was (and I quote) 'homemade chocolate brownie, smoothered in an authentic chocolate sauce, covered with lashings of cream'. I asked the waitress when ordering how was it homemade and she giggled and said she didn't know, she said the brownie was from a box full of them.
When someone says authentic or rustique to me I imagine some italian/french style small village and someone slaving away hand making everything!! I don't think of some food processing plant in Banbury, which i'm sure is the more overwhelmingly likely place it's been made!!
I 'know' in the grand scheme of things it means nothing, as there's wars, poverty, and all that jazz....this just baffles me how it's taken off in recent years!!
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My current favourite is "hand sliced". It's all complete and utter bollox to make Brakes Brother's pre-made food sound sumptuous.
Lifesavers they are
Is that so? (more likely to say home cooked). Virtually any food could be counted as homecooked then!!
They don't fool me with their PR spun menus
..healthy option,I see.
And your point is?
To show you can't quote someone's posts properly?
To try come across 'clever' and 'witty'?
To imply I over indulge?
To draw attention to responsible eating? (ie carbon emissions)
To act a tw*t???
It was a pudding, what were you expecting?
You ever had a Vesta Curry?
So they can buy the brownie in already cooked, sprinkle some cocoa powder over to top, and call it home made.
Yes! when a student. Why, do they claim authenticity?