I'm just enjoying a meal at a pub near North Shields. It's a nice enough meal, but not really nice enough to be better than what we might achieve at home. The real pleasure is in watching other people - and in that line I have one single observation:
"A broccoli floret served is very nearly always a broccoli floret wasted."
See these lads over the way there - they ordered fish and chips - and they got it, but they also got a dish of broccoli, carrots and mange-tout. Guess what went uneaten? They actually asked for it to be taken away before the meal started.
I /like/ broccoli, and I left mine. Why? Well...it had no context. I was given a dish of veg as a bolt-on to my meal, not because it formed an integral part of it, but because of a menu policy.
Where has the skill of putting a meal together gone? Does no-one consider the ensemble before bolting on the inevitable dish of veg? I think that if the nation is to enthuse about fresh veg, it needs to be served in an appetising way and in harmony with the other parts of the meal.
I look forward to a hearty future, filled with more relevant florets.
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