Status: Odd news report
I find this a bit hard to believe. According to
this news report "Almost a third of young Britons have passed off a ready-made meal as their own creation in order to impress someone, according to a survey by the Department of Health on Monday." Sure, it's common to joke that something is homemade when it's not, but usually it's easy to tell the difference between ready-made and homemade. The same survey also found that "one in 10 had never cooked a proper meal for themselves because they 'don't know how'." I find that easier to believe.
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Offer a catering service that delivers meals (or sells them for take-out). But you make sure there are a few little mistakes in the meals. The cassarole is a little burned, there are a few hairs in the soup, the salad is a bit wilted, the gravy is lumpy, and so on. That way everybody will think your customers made it themselves. Maybe even provide mismatched, and unmarked, containers for them to take the food home.
Perhaps it should say "...claimed to have passed off..."
It's likely a lot of those people were too dumb to notice how unsuccesful they were at passing things off.
If people can fall for it with food from a fast food resteraunt, they definitely could if you get food from a more upscale place.
P.S. Big Gary...if you do that, you should see if you can get a deal with Tupperware.
Tonight I'm having garlic and cheese pizza-bread with fusilli in a fresh pesto sauce and a side of salad.
Ingredients: -
garlic butter (bought),
mozerella (bought - pre-grated),
chedder (will grate my own),
pizza base (bought),
fusilli (bought),
pesto sauce (bought),
salad (will chop/mix my own).
So, did I make this meal, or the supermarket?
It also is possible that, for example, many of the respondents were counting trivial things such as store-bought mashed potatoes, roast potatoes, microwaveable rice or oven chips as examples of fake food.
Besides, I find it extremely unlikely that at least 22 percent of Britain's 16-24 year males - not just amateur cooks, but all males - have been in a situation where they were expected to cook for someone else. It's been a couple of years since I was 24, but from my personal experience you can't trust young people; they lie, they are feckless, they are lazy and they are averse to hard work.
"from my personal experience you can't trust young people; they lie, they are feckless, they are lazy and they are averse to hard work."
I'm waiting for the "Christmas?! Humbug!!"
I would admit it anyway.
A friend of mine runs a cooking class at an adult learning school, and he has the most appalling stories to tell about cooking.
I can also make the requisite microwave pizzas.
Those countries were the ones under discussion, so 'twas not even personal.
What are the other two courses?