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twoscoops

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Warwickshire

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 05 1:27 pm Post subject:
Iï¿½ve not been there for five years, but I imagine youï¿½d get something decent. Apparantly that bloke out of the Royle Family runs a pub there, with hilarious consequences. Totnes was always a bit alternative, like Glastonbury without the queues outside the dole office.

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: North Devon

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 05 1:35 pm Post subject:
This place got a fantastic review in the Indie a couple of years ago.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45671
Location: Essex

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 05 1:48 pm Post subject:
Any idea where that is in relation to Dartington?

Behemoth

Joined: 01 Dec 2004
Posts: 19023
Location: Leeds

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 05 1:57 pm Post subject:
Go north and through Buckfastleigh (what a great name)

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 05 2:00 pm Post subject:

Behemoth wrote:

Buckfastleigh (what a great name)

Indeed. I'll check on multimap later thanks

alison
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Joined: 29 Oct 2004
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Location: North Devon

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 05 11:29 pm Post subject:
my brother used to work in Poole, Dorset, and bought a stick of rock at Niagra Falls, Canadian side, and it was made in the factory next door to his office!

twoscoops

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Warwickshire

Posted: Mon Oct 24, 05 11:57 am Post subject:

twoscoops wrote:

Also, whoï¿½s to say that yer man up in Lancashire with his black pudding is using blood from local free-range pigs? Just because somebody is producing traditional regional specialities doesnï¿½t necessarily mean they are using local produce. Note: There are many people in this country who make a good living from adding value to seasonal, local, produce.

So this is the guy from Rick's food heroes, Ireland's black pudding up in Lancashire somewhere. They had a stand at the Great British Cheese Festival in Cheltenham at the weekend, and I asked where the blood came from. Apparantly it has to be dried, and it comes from the Netherlands.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45671
Location: Essex

Posted: Mon Oct 24, 05 11:59 am Post subject:

twoscoops wrote:

Apparantly it has to be dried, and it comes from the Netherlands.

alisjs

Joined: 23 Jun 2006
Posts: 1497
Location: Conwy

Posted: Thu Nov 09, 06 2:57 pm Post subject:
went to buy uk peppers from ASDA today....found labels on the shelf saying West Sussex, but the cardboard boxes containing the peppers said Spain! Yes, I did indeed complain, and voted with my feet by not buying. You`ve got to watch them, haven`t you?

ros

Joined: 19 Jul 2005
Posts: 2469
Location: Beds

Posted: Sat Nov 11, 06 12:30 pm Post subject:

In the summer it's great, local fruit, salad from the garden etc.
Frozen veg can be good , english peas etc and the surplus from the garden frozen. But how do you pursuade the family that it's not necessaru to eat salad al year round? my kids complain if there are no fresh toms or cucmber to go with their pizza (yes I know that I should be grateful they're not bemoaning a lack of chips!)
We've got used to having cold stored, imported tasteless toms all year round
any ideas for alternatives?

Green Man

Joined: 23 Jul 2006
Posts: 5272
Location: Rural Scotland.

Posted: Sat Nov 11, 06 12:37 pm Post subject:
[quote="alisjs"]uk peppers from ASDA today....quote] Peppers grown in November? Even in tunnels they would have moulded. Cabbage, Sprouts or root vegetables, are what you should be looking for in ASDA in November.

alisjs

Joined: 23 Jun 2006
Posts: 1497
Location: Conwy

Posted: Sat Nov 11, 06 2:16 pm Post subject:
land cress is great in salad and currently growing well on plot....not seen it in shops, but then I haven`t looked... Also like beans (broad or french or runner) in salad, steamed and served cool.(from supply in freezer), and chopped courgette, and how about grated raw beetroot , or cubed cooked beetroot? Apart from that, local salads days are just about over I think

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
Posts: 32429

Posted: Sat Nov 11, 06 2:34 pm Post subject:

I must say, its really easy for me to be a 'food patriot'. Those veg that we don't buy can be got locally. Local onions in the greengrocers on Arbury Road, plenty of East Anglian meat in the butchers, a nice little farmers market in Cambridge on Sundays and a great little ordinary market there every other day, and another farmers market that travels around the outskirts of town. I don't worry about the occasional thing shipped from further afield in bulk.

Bagpuss, get a box scheme in! And buy the spuds in bigger bulk, store them in that old coal shed at the food at the foot of the garden (I'll go see if its watertight next time I'm round) or in the garage; doesn't get very warm in there does it? Get 'em in a paper sack or transfer them to a cloth one, they'll last fine if you don't use them fast.

bagpuss

Joined: 09 Dec 2004
Posts: 10507
Location: cambridge

Posted: Sat Nov 11, 06 10:06 pm Post subject:

cab wrote:

Bagpuss, get a box scheme in! And buy the spuds in bigger bulk, store them in that old coal shed at the food at the foot of the garden (I'll go see if its watertight next time I'm round) or in the garage; doesn't get very warm in there does it? Get 'em in a paper sack or transfer them to a cloth one, they'll last fine if you don't use them fast.

they may last but if we are getting spuds at a far greater rate than we are using them it is still pointless

I keep pondering a box scheme and one of these days I might actually take the plunge but we shall have to wait and see untill then I will do the best I can

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
Posts: 32429

Posted: Sat Nov 11, 06 10:55 pm Post subject:

bagpuss wrote:

Some of the schemes around here will do 'without potatoes' or what have you, then all you have to do is buy them separately; I happen to know a greengrocer not much more than a hundred yards from your place selling fenland spuds. Stored properly they'll keep fine.

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