Any other dietary restrictions? According to Bower, minced or diced meat was never served. “Because they’re lesser cuts of meat,” she told Daily Mail Australia. “They could only be given to children or used for staff meals.”
They sound quite insecure, these aristocrats. Do they think you can catch lower-classness from eating the wrong foods? They do seem particularly worried. You’d think the money would provide some kind of peace of mind.
So what do the poshos eat? They apparently like to keep things simple: pork sausages and mashed potatoes with gravy, chicken and leek pie, jam roly-poly pudding, sponge cake, chicken sandwiches with mayonnaise.
Sausages, of course, are not made of minced or diced meat. Another Guardian porkie therefore.
What a stupid article.
The Graun tries to spread a bit of class envy amongst its ever dwindling publicly employed middle class readership.
Anyway that sounds like my diet, except I avoid potatoes these days. But I do eat a lot of carrots or sweet potatoes to compensate.
Who is that complaining about the speling ?
What a load of areshloes.
The article reads like a Nish Kumar or Rufus Hound bbc “comedy” monologue peppered with short bursts of canned laughter.
I had a Saturday job as a teenager working in a butchers. A joint of beef that had passed its sell by date would be taken round the back, sniffed to see it was ok, trimmed, then recut as a lesser item such as stewing steak or diced beef. It was then put back on display with a sell by date of two days at the most. If if hadn’t gone by then it came back again and was minced with a sell by date of that day. Mince almost always sold without me having to reduce it. All perfectly safe food hygiene but they really are “lesser” cuts.
They obviously consulted their esteemed leader on the subject of sausages, of which he’s an expert. No, they are not minced meat. Yet. Circumcised, obviously, but not minced….
When I was but a lad our butcher sold (i) mince, and (ii) steak, minced.
Mum bought the latter. Consequently when I was served mince after an away rugby match I had to ask a team mate what it was.
(Exaggerated only slightly for effect.)
>: why do posh people eat such beige, bland, boring food?
*sigh*
Another ‘white people don’t use spices’ article.
>When did she work for them? In the late 19th century? It was, admittedly, more than 20 years ago. But their habits and routines do sound a bit Victorian.
Uh, what? The 19th century was 20 years ago? And it sounds ‘Victorian’ because it . . . was?
My great-grandfather was a butcher and, by all accounts, prided himself on the quality of his product. A family story goes that when a customer complained that his mince was more expensive than his best steak, the reply came, “Of course it is. It’s made oot o’ my best steak”.
I’m just a regular prole and not particularly rich, but I can’t think that there is any kind of food that I don’t eat because it’s too pricey.
Don’t the aristocracy eat a combination of a) what nanny prepared for them in the nursery, and b) what was served at public school?
Aristocrat does not equate to “rich”. Same as Musk may be the wealthiest man in the world, but might be strapped for actual cash on occasion.
As Jim points out, most aristo’s tend to keep to the “comfort food” they got used to/fed in public school.
In that they’re not unique, since most people tend to keep to what mama fed them , and are slow to change anything. Most people are not culinary adventurers.
Try and feed rice or pasta to your average hardworking 1950’s Stout British Labourer the Guardian pretends to represent…
All of the stuff mentioned is classic british “cuisine”… In and of itself an item of mirth outside of the UK… And inside it, given that sir PTerry regularly poked at it in his books.
@Grikath: the labourer might have chanced his arm with tinned macaroni!
So posh people eat food that you cannot have delivered by Deliveroo. Instead they eat food that is cooked fresh from wholesome natural ingredients. Why is that a problem?
@ Grikath
I am not aristocratic in the slightest but I got a scholarship to Public School and I most certainly do NOT eat anything like the school meals which were pretty awful. There was a “Tuck Shop” which sold food during break and after lunch, we all brought food from home at the beginning of each term, we got well fed on thre “exeats” each term and every term I was one of the substantial minority sent for a medical check because I had lost more than half-a-stone (3.2kg) in weight during the term.
Actual aristocrats probably got fed nice food as small children and developed a liking for it but Public School food – NO.
This is so English. No one else gives a shit about what other people eat.
“…most people tend to keep to what mama fed them , and are slow to change anything.”
Is this true? Both my parents and my wife’s parents had/have the most horribly conservative and unadventurous taste in food. We tend to eat a much wider range, from traditional English meat and veg and fish & chips to Italian and Indian style food.