this is a joke. sadly NOT

[donkey too]

Olympic food advertised as A great 'British' Menu

Porridge and maple syrup, made with UK oats and milk — £2.20
Toasted tea cakes, with Yorkshire butter — £2.10
Carrot and cucumber sticks with red pesto hummus — £2.50
6 Jerk Red Tractor assured chicken wings — £3.50
Red Leicester British cheese with British apple chutney and Farm assured lettuce on Oxfordshire bread — £3.80
Jacket potato with Dingley Dell bacon and Freedom Foods chicken in a herb mayonnaise, served with roquete and watercress salad — £5.80
Pole and line caught tuna and sweet potato British salad — £5.90
Freshly carved Dingley Dell hog roasted Red Tractor pork, served in Oxfordshire cross hatched bread roll with mixed leaf salad and assorted accompaniments — £6.50
Grilled Red Tractor chicken burrito — £6.50
Penne pasta Red Tractor chicken and mushroom white sauce — £6.50
Thin crust stone baked 10" pizza with spicy pepperoni, spicy beef, basil and oregano — £7.50
Farm assured Scotch Beef with Long Clawson Stilton Pie, Irish mashed potato with Red Tractor Cream and British butter and onion gravy — £8.00
Cod and chips — from £8
Singapore noodle, stir fried egg noodle, chicken, prawns, char sui Pork, chilli and shredded peppers in a hoi sin dressing — £8.50
Lamb Rogan Josh served with Pilaf or Saffron rice — £8.50
The Olympic menus - Drink
Bottled water - £1.60
Fairtrade tea from £2
Fairtrade coffee from £2.60
500ml bottle of Coca Cola - £2.30
330ml bottle of Heineken - £4.20
London 2012 red wine 18.7cl - £4.80

 

[Makzine]

I must be in the wrong country then

 

[Teutone]

it's always the drinks what strikes me.

£2 for hot water and a tea bag!

or £2.30 for a can of fizz!!!!

 

[donkey too]

the actual descriptions got me especially the cheese sarny one. and the pork sarny. was the pig run over by a red tractor or what?:wacko:

 

[Firefox]

Nearly £5.00 for a 187 cl glass of red wine.... phew!

 

[robjmckinney]

Standard Fare

Anything in this area of the country is expensive, I live in Cambridge eating out regularly and these prices seem pretty standard sadly!

 

[Makzine]

the actual descriptions got me especially the cheese sarny one. and the pork sarny. was the pig run over by a red tractor or what?:wacko:

Your not going to blame me for that just cause I got a red tractor :mad1: :drive:

 

[David & Ann]

I paid £1.20 for a cuppa. Tea was weak, so I asked only for an extra tea bag. £1.00 Sir, he says. So I drank the weak tea.(normally, I usually carry tea bags in my pocket) Really.☺☺☺

 

[ricc]

as a sponsor of the games visa have insisted that all card transactions done at the olympic venues are visa ones , mastercard, american express etc wont be accepted...

 

[groyne]

maple syrup

Pole and line caught tuna

roquete

Penne pasta

Thin crust stone baked 10" pizza with spicy pepperoni, spicy beef, basil and oregano

Singapore noodle, stir fried egg noodle, chicken, prawns, char sui Pork, chilli and shredded peppers in a hoi sin dressing

Lamb Rogan Josh served with Pilaf or Saffron rice

Yeah, a truely great British menu.

 

[Teffy]

Indeed, it would be interesting to know what part of Britain most of those ideas came from. Where is the Yorkshire pudding? The Cornish pasty? The meat and potato pie? The bangers and mash? At least there was fish and chips.
Our branch of Morrisons has had a refit and the new version is full of fancy what I call foreign stuff and hardly any plain honest British food to be found. I've nothing against the occasional curry or something like tacos for a change but not all the time.

 

[NomadSue2011]

British menu

Wot? No Roast beef with Yorkshire puds? No black pudding (not that I'm a fan!). Egg & chips? Chip sarnies / Egg sarnies? Cucumber sandwiches? Traditional cream tea? :mad1:

 

[Channa]

If you consider the amount of floor space in a supermarket to the ready meals, to stick in a microwave quite scary.

It seems pastas and Asian food lends itself to this notion, bangers and mash seems to be the only British offering.

I find it quite sad, we are becoming reliant upon the ready meal.

We are losing the ability to cook in my opinion, when was the last time you saw a child covered in flour and cake mix...learning from grandma?

I don't blame anyone, the stereotype of husband working housewife home making is a thing of the past..in modern times pin money is a thing of the past and couples have to work to survive.

On a positive note, sausage and new potato bake for me tonight fresh onions , beutiful jersey royals. Finished off with melted cheese....all in a remoska
Channa

 

[fofeg101]

That menu is merely indicative of the utopian diverse culture we now enjoy in the UK, similarly, the daily gun battles in Birmingham, the majority of which go unreported.