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Abbie
21-01-2009, 21:11
Has anyone else been watching this?

Some of it is really shocking! But its good
Abigail
21-01-2009, 21:58
I've recorded the episodes. I saw five minutes of tonight's program and it looks good.
di marco
22-01-2009, 11:34
i saw it in the tv mag when i was looking to see whats on, whats it about?
Abigail
22-01-2009, 12:09
Heston Blumenthal is trying to save Little Chef. The CEO has asked Heston to create a new menu.

I don't agree with most of the things he came up with. Who would pay £10 for a lancashire hotpot at a roadside cafe?
Siobhan
22-01-2009, 12:34
Who would pay £10 for a lancashire hotpot at a roadside cafe?
You would be surprised.. for example coaches going to catch a boat in hollyhead, if you have been travelling a while and it is the only stop, you will pay..
di marco
22-01-2009, 14:36
Heston Blumenthal is trying to save Little Chef. The CEO has asked Heston to create a new menu.

I don't agree with most of the things he came up with. Who would pay £10 for a lancashire hotpot at a roadside cafe?

thanks :) and i get it now, little chef as in the motorway services cafe lol i thought it meant a person! :rolleyes:
di marco
22-01-2009, 14:37
Who would pay £10 for a lancashire hotpot at a roadside cafe?
You would be surprised.. for example coaches going to catch a boat in hollyhead, if you have been travelling a while and it is the only stop, you will pay..

yeh i agree, although i personally would never want to pay that much, especially at a little chef, sometimes if thats the only thing to eat you have to buy it anyway, whether you think its too expensive or not
Abbie
22-01-2009, 16:07
The thing is, I agree with him cos the bettwe the ingreditents and stuff the more expensive, cos I mean lets face it theres a lot of crap in the food in food chains these days and hes just trying to mae this one better

Did you see what they scarbbled egg used to look like! :eek:
di marco
30-01-2009, 12:56
ASDA boss Andy Bond has blasted Britain’s celebrity chefs for being out of touch with reality.

The supermarket giant’s chief executive said while they’re plugging posh food – shoppers want bargains.

Writing in tomorrow’s Grocer he labels Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall “patronising” for pushing mums to pay more for free-range chickens.

He adds that Heston Blumenthal was “cooking up the wrong dish” by asking Little Chef customers to swap eggs and chips for quail egg couscous.

He said: “It sticks in my throat a little when highly paid celebrity chefs make sweeping assumptions about what people can afford, and preach to them about how they should choose to spend their hard-earned money.

“Without a dose of reality the celebrity chefs, many hold so dear, risk losing touch, and disappearing into obscurity.

“That would no doubt hurt them even more than the thought of too many chickens being crammed into a shed.”
pookie1968uk
30-01-2009, 13:13
he has a point really. its ok these chefs telling us what we should buy and eat but more often than not it costs a lot more and not everyone has the money to do this.
Abbie
30-01-2009, 16:47
He has a point although on the shows you do notice that the bargins we buy are sometime pure crap!
StarsOfCCTV
30-01-2009, 17:09
I've had ex-battery chickens as pets and the conditions where they were kept were horrible, one of the chickens had a bare chest when we got her because thats all they could do all day, peck each other. If they're going to be killed so we can eat them at least let them have some fresh air. So what if they're only a chicken? They're still an animal and still deserve some quality of life not just crammed into a shed full of s**t. /rant :o

People can buy less meat and eat more veg. Vegetables are cheaper anyway.
Abbie
30-01-2009, 17:10
I've had ex-battery chickens as pets and the conditions where they were kept were horrible, one of the chickens had a bare chest when we got her because thats all they could do all day, peck each other. If they're going to be killed so we can eat them at least let them have some fresh air. So what if they're only a chicken? They're still an animal and still deserve some quality of life not just crammed into a shed full of s**t. /rant :o

People can buy less meat and eat more veg. Vegetables are cheaper anyway.
No its fine I completely agree!
I mean yes we are gonna eat them but I think its horrible the way they are treated
di marco
30-01-2009, 21:11
i agree that not everyone can afford to pay more but thats the supermarkets and farmers etc faults, everyone should be encouraged to buy free range products
Chris_2k11
02-02-2009, 14:14
I started watching this then realised it was the last episode haha, looked good from what I saw anyway. I've actually never been in Little Chef
Abbie
02-02-2009, 18:05
neither have I, but I always wanted to when we traveled on the road to go on holiday when I was little I just thought it was really cool :lol:
di marco
04-02-2009, 19:50
we went in them a few times when i was little, we dont anymore though, the food is dreadful!