re: #599 Killgore Trout

I became frustrated with the American Food Network (always airing shows about cakes) so I started watching the UK cooking shows. They’re really taking an interest in real food. Lots of shows promoting healthy eating and quality ingredients. When I was in the UK back in the 80’s the food was awful. I visit fairly regularly over the past few years and the food has become much better. Give the haggis a try, it’s really not that bad. Try pigeon too, it’s surprisingly good.

Yep - the level of UK food is far higher now than it was a couple of decades back. I think much of the improvement is down to books and tv programmes that expanded peoples culinary horizons. Everyone’s favourite from the 80’s was “Masterchef” which was presented by the American food critic Lloyd Grossman. Here he is being parodied by Reeves and Mortimer:

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