The Reids wrote:
> Following up to Edmund Lewis
>
> > I have never actually seen a chip buttie,
> >
> >Crikey! How can you live in the UK for umpteen years and not......
>
> 56 years, not a sniff of one :-)
>

> >I think it was appreciated to some extent pre-industrial Revolution,
at
> >least among the more well-to-do. However I think what we are seeing
is
> >a re-emergence of that appreciation.
>
> There are books written on it, the causes are legion. Protestant
> work culture, WW2 and rationing, anglo saxon culture, anti
> catholicism, anti eurpoeanism, early industrialisation and so on.
> Certainly, somehow, by victorian times, the young Mrs Beeton was
>

I've got a book about it somewhere
I'm probably a little too young to have seen the full force of the
change, but I've grown up thinking that food as late as the 1950s
conformed to all the worst British food stereotypes- boiled everything,
shoe-leather meat etc. This is based on what people of that era have
told me as much as anything else.

>
> > and like
> >> the US, food has changed drastically over the last 30 years. It
> >> hasnt reached the bottom of the pile yet, hence Jamie Oliver and
> >> his school dinners campaign.
> >
> >Came 25 years too late for me :-)
>
> Sounds like your mum cooked like mine :-)

She cooked OK actually- it's school food I was primarily on about. And
don't get me started on hospital food either (didn't Oliver target that
as well?) :-0

Edmund