Watching as much "food TV" as I do, preparing "quality" meals isn't that hard. Plus, what with all the media interest about how people in the UK are catching up with the US, when it comes to being a bunch of fat bastards, it makes me wonder.

The other day, I had to accompany my parter, Clare, to the local branch of Tesco's, we got the stuff we were short of, and stood in the queue for the tills. While waiting, I glanced around and the people who were arranging payment for their shopping were both women (unsuprisingly). The thing that I did notice, was that they were both fucking huge. Real big fat fuckers!

Then I started watching the items that they were purchasing. I wasn't suprised that they were both such fat bastards, the amount of shit that the checkout person was scanning across the sensor had to be seen to be believed.

All prepackaged, fat/salt/sugar /additive laden rubbish. Even if they happened to have large families, there was enough calories to feed a small African nation!

Clare tried to justify their actions, with that "they probably don't have time" excuse. Well these days, that just doesn't work as far as I'm concerned. They'd probably have "more time" if they got of their fat fucking arses and stopped filling their brains with shit from the TV.

Ok, it does take a bit more time to make a proper meal, that it does to open a packet of shit and microwave it.

But why to the food manufacturers use so much salt/sugar/fat/whatever ? because when you "process" food, it becomes bland and hideous looking pap! So they add salt/sugar/fat/additives, to make it "taste nice", and to look better, oh and so that it has a longer shelf life (yes, ok, lets be real about it, to make more fucking money).

Unfortunately, it's the consumer that doesn't seem to realise that this kind of "food" is slowly but surely killing them.

Of course, it's the likes of the food manufacturer that have realised, that while the quality of their product, might be shit, it tastes good - so they are falling back on that old trick of nature, that if somethings pleasing to the taste, it's probably safe too eat, if it tastes bad then it's probably not safe.

We Brits, are so obsessed with out petty minded xenophobia, that we haven't worked out why other European nations are so fussy about what they buy for food. To start with, it seems that their societies are a lot less fucked up than the UK. Less obsessed with time, or the lack of. So it's taking the bastards that make the shit that a large proportion of the UK eat, longer to squeeze the same levels of profit out of them.

And no, I rant about this kind of thing all the time, but I'm not perfect. Some of the shit does really taste good and as a result, occassionally I crack and have to have a quick "fix" of something. Often it will be chocolate, sometimes it will be that real processed dogshit, a pot noodle. The very spicy ones are fucking lovely, but whenever I'm about to crack - especially with the pot noodle, I look at the price, and I remember that at about a £ a shot, it's cheaper to go to the little Chinese store in town, and buy their instant noodles instead. More varied flavours and about half the price. If I then still want the noodles tasting more hot/spicey I can always put some fresh chilli in.

So come on, you fat bastards, take the time to make "proper" meals, and leave the instant processed dogshit where it belongs, either on the supermarket shelves or in the rubbish bin.

Oh!, the older I get, the harder it is, to get off my soap box !

Bugger, caught out again! No, nothing that I've seen in the media recently has grabbed my attention enough to reproduce/comment on it here, but I've taken to watching a programme on the UKTVFOOD satelite channel, called "food uncut".

Food Uncut is quite an interesting concept, it's only half an hour long, but tries to cover a wide variety of subjects. Yesterday, they had an article about food blogs.

The annoying thing was, that they only seemed to focus on apparently well known food blogs. Well they might be well known to some people but not too me. Maybe thats my fault though, as I don't really get the time too sit at the computer and search for food blogs. Or food articles per se (hell, I'm writing this during the Sweden Vs England match at half time).

Ha! I mean, even the latest edition of the aforementioned programme is recorded on my "Sky" PVR device. It can take a day or two for me to see the recorded material.

The article on food blogs was a little like the programme. It's aimed at a curious demographic. I'm sometimes confused who it's directed toward, but it appears to be mainly a "middle class" thing - even though the take up of digital TV has a higher level amongst the "working classes" (apparently).

The programmes mainly static "anchor" presenters, seem to have a good understanding of their subject. Though I sometimes wonder what actually qualifies them to talk about the subject - except for the reasonably regular "guest" chef - Jean Cristophe Novelli (apologies if I spelled the name wrong) who is a reasonably well known (and michelin starred, I understand) TV chef.

The other two ? Stephan something or other, well I first saw him on the Channel 4 programme called "full on Food" (I think). Actually, thats where I saw Merrilees, who seemed to take over from Stephan there. They then turned up on food uncut.

I suspect that she is also an experienced chef, but I don't know as so far I haven't looked to see if she has her own website/biog'/whatever.

Perhaps it's just me being lazy. Or perhaps, because I'm not fazed by people with some sort of show biz' notoriety, that I don't give a fuck, but I suppose I'll have to look!

Apart from that, the programme is quite good, and reasonably informative - though some of the recipes are a little highbrow. Some ideas of what might make "normal" food a little more interesting would be good.

Not all of us have these "top" restraunts/delli's/fishmongers/etc etc just round the corner like the more affluent parts of London seem to have. So some of the ingredients are a bit hard to find.

Maybe it's just that I've missed the point of the programme. Hey! I'm not perfect. I just don't like the idea that we have to eat so much shit i.e. what the supermarkets would prefer to feed us because it looks pretty and comes in an appealing box (and the accompanying price tag).

I will also try to keep this updated more often though!

Pip Pip!