This survey absolutely does not have any link to inflation. Even the headline is a bit sneaky. There’s a decline in the popularity of roast dinners and there is high inflation is a better title.
I’m not going to give up on a roast dinner – but it’s chicken or pork these days: the days of lamb or beef being affordable are long gone. As a kid we’d quite often have roast lamb, but it’s getting on for thirty quid for a leg. Which is odd when the farmer barely gets paid that for a whole sheep at auction. Someone’s making money and it ain’t the poor bloody farmer.
It can be made cheaply if you cook for more people and then rotate who cooks each week.
Just don’t treat it like a dinner party
I don’t understand this headline. A traditional roast is one of the most economical ways to cook, with plenty of leftovers for dinners later in the week…
The cost of cooking it alone have gone up massively, that will be enough to turn off a lot of people. Throw in cost of meat and it becomes even more unappetising. That does not even consider the number of people who cannot afford to store the ingredients due to lack of adequate fridges/freezers.
I mean, it has been summer. And who the hell eats a roast in summer?!
I’m British. I’ve never ever understood the hardcore love of a roast. It’s all overrated.
I also think Yorkshire Puddings are dull biegeness, and I’m a Yorkshireman.
I’m not even being facetious.
Each to their own, if it makes you happy and content, good for you.
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This survey absolutely does not have any link to inflation. Even the headline is a bit sneaky. There’s a decline in the popularity of roast dinners and there is high inflation is a better title.
I’m not going to give up on a roast dinner – but it’s chicken or pork these days: the days of lamb or beef being affordable are long gone. As a kid we’d quite often have roast lamb, but it’s getting on for thirty quid for a leg. Which is odd when the farmer barely gets paid that for a whole sheep at auction. Someone’s making money and it ain’t the poor bloody farmer.
It can be made cheaply if you cook for more people and then rotate who cooks each week.
Just don’t treat it like a dinner party
I don’t understand this headline. A traditional roast is one of the most economical ways to cook, with plenty of leftovers for dinners later in the week…
The cost of cooking it alone have gone up massively, that will be enough to turn off a lot of people. Throw in cost of meat and it becomes even more unappetising. That does not even consider the number of people who cannot afford to store the ingredients due to lack of adequate fridges/freezers.
I mean, it has been summer. And who the hell eats a roast in summer?!
I’m British. I’ve never ever understood the hardcore love of a roast. It’s all overrated.
I also think Yorkshire Puddings are dull biegeness, and I’m a Yorkshireman.
I’m not even being facetious.
Each to their own, if it makes you happy and content, good for you.