India Knight Makes A Meal Out Of Supermarkets
INDIA Knight says “Supermarkets are selling us out”. Enough of this cheap protein, massive choice of ingredients, ready meals, availability and value. What we want is something else. And India Knight knows what it is, and how to get it.
Says she in the Times:
I realise I am speaking from a fortunate standpoint: I can afford to pay a little more for organic and locally sourced ingredients, and I use my local butcher and fishmonger (which I’m lucky to have: both are a dying breed) because I would rather eat fantastic meat once a week than mechanically recovered slop on a daily basis. But actually I question the whole “value” status of supermarkets, not least because whenever I go to one I end up buying a pile of stuff I don’t actually need or, indeed, want; stuff that, more often that not, ends up being thrown away (shamefully).
Anorak resists the urge to reprint the entire article and file it under “beyond parody”. Instead we just strip out a few juicy bit, our choicest cut being:
Rubbish highly processed food is not cheap, whereas you can make enough rice and dhal for six people for about £1.50.
Genius. That’s the food budget and the obesity crisis polished off. We can all eat Indian food, like those Indians whose life expectany is 63 (men) and 66 (women), less than the 77 (men) and 82 (women) in the UK.
India Knight was born in 1965…
February 18th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Ah yes India! Personally I’ve nothing against the place and I’ve always liked a good curry, though they are harder to find here in Wisconsin.
I used to work with a Indian gentleman who retired recently. At his retirement party someone asked him if he would be returning to India, his wife laughed and said “No no, it’s a terrible place, they still have the plague there you know”
He didn’t specify which plague, and I took his word for it being terrible, I guess he would know.
February 18th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
What a remarkable coincidence, David, that’s almost exactly the same as this bit of dialogue from the Seinfeld episode “The Betrayal”:
Usha: Don’t go. India is a dreadful, dreadful place.
Zubin: You know, it’s the only country that still has the plague? I mean the plague! Please!