The food police are still at it. This time, it’s the barbie (not Klaus).
Beer, ice-cream, crisps, Indian takeaways, chips and anything in batter: normally, it’s a particular food type that gets blamed for helping the British to pile on the pounds. But now a whole style of cooking and eating has come under fire for encouraging obesity in the UK.
Research shows that Britons consume more than the recommended daily intake of calories in a single barbecue meal, with men often eating more than 3,500 calories and women more than 2,500.
Look, I know exactly how much my recommended daily intake should be. It’s whatever I decide it is.
However, the Boots research indicates that any advice on sensible alfresco eating habits is likely to be ignored:
Jolly good. Still, I guess Boots and the Tony Ferguson weightloss programme got a free puff piece out of it.
Tomorrow, I’ll be firing up the barbie again.
“the average helping includes two sausages, one-and-a-half burgers, two chicken drumsticks, one and a half meat skewers, fish, a baked potato, a green side salad, pasta salad, a desert and – for the sake of healthiness, no doubt – a bowl of fruit salad to round the meal off.”
Not at my place it doesn’t. Am I tight now?
“two sausages, one-and-a-half burgers, two chicken drumsticks, one and a half meat skewers, fish, a baked potato, a green side salad, pasta salad”
That’s ‘average’? Blood and sand.
I do wonder where they get their averages from. I couldn’t eat a fraction of what they claim.
Well, Mr Puddlecote, we tried it and we liked it. We’ll have some.
“Look, I know exactly how much my recommended daily intake should be. It’s whatever I decide it is.”
Lol….
They forgot to mention all the booze and fags we go through at barbies. They’re slipping.
Sorry, that’s not a barbecue, that’s a cookout. Barbecue is slow cooked (smoked). It’s an all day process and includes one or more of the following: brisket, ribs, shoulder, shank and/or loin either beef or pork. I t may also include whole chicken. It does not include burgers, it may include pulled pork sandwiches (except in Texas). It does not include sausage or fish. Again, that is not barbecue that’s a cookout.