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my latest challenge "national food campaign"

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  • ShepsSheps Posts: 2,236
    Let's hope so @B3 🙂
  • war  garden 572war garden 572 Posts: 664
    edited April 2023
    i doubt it since given what people here claim happen in their allotments
    I am surprised anything grows. given every one seem to feeding bugs
    and other wildlife.  
  • BenCotto said:
    And when you’re on the French exchange and your host’s mother motions to ask at dinner if you’d like more, don’t say, “Je suis pleine.”
    And my Dutch friend who announced she was fed up after dinner. 
    Beautiful North Wales - hiraeth
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    edited April 2023
    i doubt it since given what people here claim happen in their allotments
    I am surprised anything grows. given every one seem to feeding bugs
    and other wildlife.  
    When I was a child I think I was in awe of USA. Everything there seemed bigger, brighter, more exciting. It was the epitome of modern and I would listen avidly to Alistair Cook’s ‘Letter from America’.

    What has happened to that once great nation? How did it get to stagnate? They elect a President who is a laughing stock and yet he elicits besotted admiration from a large chunk of the country. They have mass shootings more than once a day but the Republican Party is proud to do nothing about it. The power infrastructure is a mess, public transport is non existent in many areas, climate change deniers are listened to, QAnon idiocy is believed, food is adulterated, the NHS is viewed as a Commie aberration, their banking system has only just emerged from the 1990s and, as we see from the post above, environmental awareness is pitiful.

    I just feel so sorry for the outward-reaching liberals of America who must curl up in embarrassment at their red-necked countrymen.
    Rutland, England
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Sadly, what you say about the USA could so easily be said about us: Brexiteers, racist hate crimes, children stabbed to death most days.

    I worked with Americans in most of the worlds trouble spots, and could not have wished to meet a more dedicated, talented, and generally interesting bunch of people.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • Jenny_AsterJenny_Aster Posts: 945
    punkdoc said:
    Sadly, what you say about the USA could so easily be said about us: Brexiteers, racist hate crimes, children stabbed to death most days.

    I worked with Americans in most of the worlds trouble spots, and could not have wished to meet a more dedicated, talented, and generally interesting bunch of people.

    I take great exception to @Pundoc lumping Brexiteers in with racist hate crimes and children being stabbed! I voted Brexit seven years ago and would certainly do it again. There....now I've said it! So perhaps I'm not so welcome on this forum? 

    This is how things escalate on a forum. It's called 'flaming'! Flaming is the goal of an Internet Troll. See how trolls work? It's best not to feed them...

    Trying to be the person my dog thinks I am! 

    Cambridgeshire/Norfolk border.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Could I as why you would vote Brexit again @Jenny_Aster? Just interested. Not criticising. You have a right to your opinion.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • the reason asked is I tried 40 different places and search terms 
    to try find anyone or any institutions( libraries, museums, historical
     societies, local council offices and etc. to find if anyone of them has 
    copes in there collections. all responses were negative.  that why asked 
    question because I had exhausted all other possible place. I hoped
    someone here might have another idea for  where look. 
         

    the reason asked is I tried 40 different places and search terms 
    to try find anyone or any institutions( libraries, museums, historical
     societies, local council offices and etc. to find if anyone of them has 
    copes in there collections. all responses were negative.  that why asked 
    question because I had exhausted all other possible place. I hoped
    someone here might have another idea for  where look. 
         
    P.S.
    Did you trawl the depths of the Women's Institutes records. World renowned for their recipes, food related topics and publications?

    i am guessing the paucity of information might be related to the fact that people involved with culinary work were usually considered 2nd class citizens who were often illiterate so unable to record anything.

    Ruth Mott. The Victorian Farm. Another historical expert.



  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497

    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Whilst you are entitled to your opinion, @Jenny_Aster, I am entitled to mine, and I believe that Brexit is the worst thing that has happened to this country in a generation.
    It is certainly not flaming.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
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