Would they want to?
I remember as a child some fruits and vegetables only being seasonably available or very expensive. One of the benefits of modern civilization in developed nations is supposed to be the availability of a standard of living beyond mere subsistence.
For whatever it’s worth, our good friend @Mangetout has done some excellent YouTube videos where he tries to make a meal for a single pound. This American is absolutely aghast at how affordable produce is in the UK. Does your government subsidize fresh produce or something?
It’s a whole day for a single pound. Which is even wilder. Though I remember on at least some, he allows himself some foraging in the great outdoors.
Is that to feed a single person?
Yes. –
Yeah, his foraging is a thing to behold. His knowledge about the wild mushrooms and plants of the UK is encyclopedic.
The soup he made from stinging nettles was so beautiful, I could almost experience the velvety mouthfeel.
Stinging Nettle soup? That sounds…horrific.
I know - it sounds like that guy will eat anything!
No, it’s a delicacy. Lots of work to prepare.
Talk about timely.
Must explain why he isn’t here to comment on his name being brought up – he’s been uploading his YouTube video.
This is both hilarious and somewhat dismaying.
So one pound is $1.20, according to Google.
Three meals for $1.20? Well, I guess it’s ramen for breakfast, lunch, and dinner… and that leaves me with $0.45 savings for the next day! Or so I thought, but I just checked prices on packets of ramen… apparently I have $0.03 leftover.
Well, at least I like cheap ramen.
The prices where @Mangetout is are quite a bit cheaper that in the US.
Random: 6 eggs @ 79p(.94 US) works out to 9.40 for 5 dozen. 5 dozen eggs cost 15 US at Costco. Regular grocery stores are running 18-22.
Just quoting because it’s awesome.
He’s not Mangepastout, after all
I live in an area where we have nettles and I’ve been stung by them. They are painful. The idea of a soup made from them sounds insane.
But I had the opportunity to try some many years ago during a St. Patrick’s Day potluck at an old job of mine, when someone brought it in. I tried it because other people were eating it and not dying. It was pretty darn good. You have to boil the nettles, then empty the water, and squeeze the moisture out of the boiled leaves and stems. Then add them to a soup (or tea, that’s a thing too). That gets all of the poison out and what you’re left with is pretty tasty vegetable. It’s sort of like eating spinach but with more of a peppery note, sort of like arugula. I now order it almost every time I find it being served somewhere (which isn’t often).
(I just realized we keep hijacking Pit threads with food talk, are people taking the “BBQ” part too seriously?)
Trying to wrap my head around this…