{"id":2993,"date":"2012-01-24T09:46:45","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T09:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/?p=2993"},"modified":"2012-01-24T09:46:45","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T09:46:45","slug":"article-food-in-britain-better-than-we-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/2012\/01\/24\/article-food-in-britain-better-than-we-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Article | Food in Britain: Better than we think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Roast-dinner-comp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2994\" title=\"Roast dinner comp\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Roast-dinner-comp-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Roast-dinner-comp-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Roast-dinner-comp.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last week dragged with it yet more news of the UK&#8217;s gastronomic inadequacy and ignorance of such nebulous concepts as &#8220;nutrition&#8221; and &#8220;balanced diet&#8221;. It&#8217;s been 20 years since the seemingly arbitrary\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dccps.nci.nih.gov\/5ad_3_origins.html\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/dccps.nci.nih.gov\/5ad_3_origins.html', 'five-a-day rule was conceived');\">five-a-day rule was conceived<\/a>\u00a0by a group of carrot-peddling fruit and veg companies in California, but it would seem that we Brits haven&#8217;t taken this particular stroke of marketing genius to belly, for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.onmedica.com\/newsarticle.aspx?id=6cb98116-2efb-4a40-a3b1-92427a8c2a9e\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.onmedica.com\/newsarticle.aspx?id=6cb98116-2efb-4a40-a3b1-92427a8c2a9e', 'we eat the fewest vegetables in all of Europe');\">we eat the fewest vegetables in all of Europe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Not only are we not eating our greens, according to a recent study\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metro.co.uk\/news\/887566-over-half-the-meals-eaten-outside-the-home-are-from-fast-food-restaurants\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.metro.co.uk\/news\/887566-over-half-the-meals-eaten-outside-the-home-are-from-fast-food-restaurants', 'over half of the meals eaten out');\">over half of the meals eaten out<\/a>\u00a0in this country are \u2013 gasp! \u2013 fast food.<\/p>\n<p>As ever, the press cherry-pick the naughty side of fast food and have us believe that we&#8217;re scarfing tonnes of cheese-slapped patties flopped between two halves of a bun with a squirt of acrid gunge and a side order of fries. This is, of course, bunk. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/lifeandstyle\/wordofmouth\/2012\/jan\/23\/food-in-britain\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/lifeandstyle\/wordofmouth\/2012\/jan\/23\/food-in-britain', 'Continue reading at the Guardian.');\">Continue reading at the Guardian.<\/a>..<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week dragged with it yet more news of the UK&#8217;s gastronomic inadequacy and ignorance of such nebulous concepts as &#8220;nutrition&#8221; and &#8220;balanced diet&#8221;. It&#8217;s been 20 years since the seemingly arbitrary\u00a0five-a-day rule was conceived\u00a0by a group of carrot-peddling fruit and veg companies in California, but it would seem that we Brits haven&#8217;t taken this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[102,322,366,1000,509,1086,856],"class_list":["post-2993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-british-food","tag-french-food","tag-guardian","tag-italian-food","tag-mcdonalds","tag-pret-a-manger","tag-word-of-mouth"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1zdji-Mh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2995,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993\/revisions\/2995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}