French Fry Lies.
The Government have declared war on another front. The ultra-thin French fries.
Apparently, they make you fat, unlike the good old King Edward sliced in half and lowered into a vat of lard until vaguely warm.
Concerned about the vast quantities of surplus blubber currently wobbling between sofa and dole office, the Food Standards Agency are encouraging chip shop owners to produce even thicker versions, much like potato wedges.
Douglas Roxburgh, president of the National Federation of Fish Fryers, described the move as ‘totally unfair’.
‘They should be concentrating on fast food outlets who make the thin French fries, not the traditional independent chip shop,’ he said.
‘We will be opposing this as much as we can until they make it a level playing field and start asking McDonald’s, KFC and Burger King to change their chip sizes too.’
So, its not chips which make you fat, but the slender French fries which the French have been eating since the 17th century?
How strange that you never see a fat French woman; German, yes, English definitely; a few Spaniards that would be well advised to stay upright on their way downhill, but French? They are the thinest women on earth.
I defy you to find anything larger than a size 10 on sale in ‘normal’ clothing shops. Looking for a size 38 bra Madame? – Over there in the outsize department. Even the outsize department stops at a 16. The French don’t do ‘fat’.
Perhaps someone would tip the Foods Standard Agency off – it’s not the size of the chips, it’s how many of them that you eat!
MacDonald’s is hugely popular here, for an ocasional treat, not as a way of life. A four course lunch is the norm, for offfice workers and manual workers alike. They look appalled at the idea of ‘grabbing a quick sandwich’.
They start with soup. Not the thick soup with tons of sugar and salt in it that comes out of a can, but a nourishing vegetable soup, home made, fresh. That will be followed by ’something with lettuce’ – raw fresh vegetables, perhaps some cold cooked salmon. Enough to fill a small side plate, not a dinner plate. A glass of wine, and onto the staples of daily life, a fresh cooked steak or the inevitable duck, with a handful of French fries, followed by a small piece of cheese and fruit. Every day. Eaten slowly over an hour or so, in heated conversation with everyone else at a table for 10 or 12. Invariably 10 euros all in. It is part of French culture.
Food isn’t served on an oval platter piled high with chips. Pizzas aren’t advertised as being ‘double crust and oozing with cheese’ – a little of the finest quality, served slowly, eaten slowly, in good company.
They don’t get fat.
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March 5, 2010 at 08:00 -
Oooer, I’d better stick to M&S for my size 38 FF bras then. And they do a lovely line in stretchy dirndl skirts, just the thing for the pauncy and haunchy woman of indeterminate age.
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March 5, 2010 at 08:01 -
*paunchy*, not pauncy..
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March 5, 2010 at 09:16 -
Unbelievable. Even the law-abiding citizens of this country are never safe from intereference, intimidation and harrassment to the point where they are often driven insane or out of business or both.
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March 5, 2010 at 10:19 -
best pair of french fries I’ve ever seen!
we’ll soon be able to tell this government (hahahaha) what to do with their petty little control ideas
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March 5, 2010 at 10:44 -
From their social affairs corrspondent. The Mash was on the case yesterday. http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2527&Itemid=81
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March 5, 2010 at 11:03 -
I am starting to derive a perverse pleasure from deliberately exceeding the Government’s daily limits on all sorts of things; I don’ really feel much of a man unless I’ve had a least eight ‘units’ of whisky (a unit is the same as a swig, right?), smoked in a public place and then breathed in the second-hand smoke I just breathed out, not eaten any fruit or veg (except chips) and now it looks like french fries are to be added to the menu.
Leave me alone!
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March 5, 2010 at 11:07 -
Perhaps someone would tip the Foods Standard Agency off – it’s not the size of the chips, it’s how many of them that you eat!
We cannot be controlled (yet). Food manufacturers can. They are the plate Police.
The Food Standards Agency is not about food standards but making meals healthier. : ( They even have a 20-year plan. They are wedded to sustainabilty and telling us what is best for us rather than simply trying ensure food is safe to eat.
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March 5, 2010 at 11:25 -
Anna,
While I agree with you over this you will have to stop telling world plus dog how good it is over here or we’ll be over run with them. In fact there is a small village near me where over 60% of the properties are owned by people from other EU countries – the village is almost dead until the summer.
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March 5, 2010 at 11:47 -
The key thing is eating slowly so that you body has a chance to react to your filling stomach and signal your brain that you feel full. That ensures that portions are kept small. Then it doesn’t matter what you eat so long as you eat a variety of foods, not Fish&Chips everyday in small portions, and you then stay nice and healthy.
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March 5, 2010 at 12:18 -
Can somebody please, please sack these clowns? Why do these nannying hectoring twats even exist?
Grrrrr
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March 5, 2010 at 20:46 -
I’d laugh if I didn’t think that eventually they’ll be handing out peace time ration cards to control what you eat. And the irony is maddening. I mean really – take a look around the House of Commons. Its hardly filled with svelte examples of the human race – swollen guts and gigantic backsides abound. Plenty of surplus blubber there.
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March 5, 2010 at 22:51 -
In an effort to cut the fat, we bought one of those machines that bathes copious amount of potatoes cut into whatever thickness is preferred, with one tablespoon of oil. It is made by a French company. It makes the worst chips ever tasted.
Useless information: French women have more “thin” genes than those of any other country in Europe.
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