When it comes to one food staple, whole populations across the globe have been brainwashed into thinking it’s delicious, writes Robert Dessaix.
For well over a decade, the Golden Spurtle World Porridge Making Championships have been held in Carrbridge, Scotland. The winner, as you might expect, goes home with a Golden Spurtle trophy.called her the Rick Stein of porridge and featured a photograph of her holding her spurtle. “I can’t put into words how delighted I am,” Lisa said, touchingly. It’s not the sort of pleasure it would be easy for anyone to find words for.
However, at the top of my list of what’s vastly overrated is food: eating, cooking, chefs, recipe books … food, in general. It’s not just friands, either. Outside of Paddington or South Yarra, who would willingly put a friand in their mouth? Or a bagel, for that matter? A bagel tastes the way you’d expect flour, water and, on high holidays, a squirt of egg to taste: dry and disagreeable. So what’s all the fuss about?It’s patriotic cuisine that takes the cake.
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