Crappy Food Writing

[gfweb]

"melty cheese" I read as a property of the cheese  ie meltable.  "Melted cheese"  refers to the state of being melted at the moment.

[Alex]

1 hour ago, gfweb said:

"melty cheese" I read as a property of the cheese  ie meltable.  "Melted cheese"  refers to the state of being melted at the moment.

 

Yes, that's what @liuzhou wrote earlier today -- and I concurred. So now we're three. Does that constitute a quorum? 

[liuzhou]

Does an English breakfast make men more attractive?

https://www.itv.com/news/2024-03-07/does-an-english-breakfast-make-men-more-attractive

 

I have rarely read such semi-literate garbage in my life. 

 

The UK's ITV (Independent Television) site almost guarantees typos and tortuous sentence structures in every story but even ignoring that, this is patent nonsense.

 

Must have been a slow news day.

 

[Tropicalsenior]

52 minutes ago, liuzhou said:

Does an English breakfast make men more attractive?

Are you not at least tempted to test out the theory?

[liuzhou]

54 minutes ago, Tropicalsenior said:

Are you not at least tempted to test out the theory?

 

Not in the least.

 

[liuzhou]

I just read this comment in response to an article on a certain internet food site.

"I often ate lotus seeds growing up in congee..."

Was the writer growing up in congee or the lotus seeds?

 

 

[liuzhou]

The UK's Independent Television News (ITV) is one of the few foreign news sites not blocked by Beijing's paranoid censors.

 

Unfortunately, it is semi-literate at best. Typos and downright errors are the norm. They routinely use 'infer' when they mean 'imply', one of my many pet hates.

 

This garbage assaulted me this morning before my first coffee. Unforgivable!

 

"William Maughan keeps 30,000 free range hens near Darlington. Like all British farmers his birds are vaccinated against salmonella."

 

All farmers aren't vaccinated! All farmers' birds are! Which is what they meant to convey.

 

Grrr!

 

https://www.itv.com/news/2024-03-19/polish-chicken-imports-may-be-banned-as-salmonella-cases-rise

 

 

Edited August 15 by liuzhou (log)

[liuzhou]

A defence of 'glugs'.

 

Don’t give me precision in recipe quantities – I like a glug, a splash or a bunch

 

[gfweb]

Unless all the brits i see on BBC are eating French breakfasts I think the evidence favors "no effect"

[gfweb]

10 minutes ago, liuzhou said:

A defence of 'glugs'.

 

Don’t give me precision in recipe quantities – I like a glug, a splash or a bunch

 

 

Classic Raynor. A no content column.  1000 or so easy-reading words that leave me no better informed. (As if that were possible in the first place)

[Katie Meadow]

I'm good with a glug or a splash, but not a bunch. Maybe a handful? Bunches are arbitrary divisions made on the basis of your grocer's pricing guidelines. Here in northern CA a bunch of chives is typically no thicker than a small pinkie finger. In Atlanta we found bunches of chives consisted of about ten times that much. For the same price or less.

 

I agree with posters who are annoyed by endless overwritten preambles to a recipe; most of them are inane and repetitive to say nothing of poorly written. But what irritates me the most is the paragraph titled: "Why you will love this recipe."

Edited August 16 by Katie Meadow (log)