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British Expats (https://britishexpats.com/forum/)
-   The Maple Leaf (https://britishexpats.com/forum/maple-leaf-98/)
-   -   The country we left behind (https://britishexpats.com/forum/maple-leaf-98/country-we-left-behind-905910/)

scrubbedexpat142 Aug 15th 2018 12:45 am
Re: The country we left behind
 
Originally Posted by BristolUK (Post 12548606)
Clearly something has gone badly wrong, somehow.

scrubbedexpat142 Aug 15th 2018 1:14 am
Re: The country we left behind
 
I am not sure how valid this comment will be (hopefully others will give more informed opinions, for or against) but picking up on just one of the many cues in the article, the reference to chicken supernoodles, I see, looking just now, that a 100gram pack of supernoodles retails for ≥ 80p but a five hundred gram of own brand spaghetti for 50p.

Now I don't know what horrors are added to supernoodles to make the "chicken" flavour but I'll bet a 1000 forints that pasta could be "flavoured" with an off the shelf product pretty cheaply & effectively.

Relevant? Not sure.

Shard Aug 15th 2018 3:34 am
Re: The country we left behind
 
Originally Posted by Expatrick (Post 12548720)
I am not sure how valid this comment will be (hopefully others will give more informed opinions, for or against) but picking up on just one of the many cues in the article, the reference to chicken supernoodles, I see, looking just now, that a 100gram pack of supernoodles retails for ≥ 80p but a five hundred gram of own brand spaghetti for 50p.

Now I don't know what horrors are added to supernoodles to make the "chicken" flavour but I'll bet a 1000 forints that pasta could be "flavoured" with an off the shelf product pretty cheaply & effectively.

Relevant? Not sure.
Supernoodles are nutritional horror in themselves ! However, they're easier to "cook" as they only require hot water from a kettle, rather than boiling on a stove. It's certainly shameful if any child in Britain is going hungry through poverty, but more often than not the problem is poverty compounded with social and/or mental issues, all of which are better addressed by the state than food banks.

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scrubbedexpat142 Aug 15th 2018 4:08 am
Re: The country we left behind
 
Originally Posted by Shard (Post 12548803)
Supernoodles are nutritional horror in themselves ! However, they're easier to "cook" as they only require hot water from a kettle, rather than boiling on a stove. It's certainly shameful if any child in Britain is going hungry through poverty, but more often than not the problem is poverty compounded with social and/or mental issues, all of which are better addressed by the state than food banks.

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Yes, I appreciate this is a complex problem with multiple causes - & not one easy solution.

scrubbedexpat142 Aug 15th 2018 4:14 am
Re: The country we left behind
 
Originally Posted by Shard (Post 12548803)
Supernoodles are nutritional horror in themselves ! However, they're easier to "cook" as they only require hot water from a kettle, rather than boiling on a stove. It's certainly shameful if any child in Britain is going hungry through poverty, but more often than not the problem is poverty compounded with social and/or mental issues, all of which are better addressed by the state than food banks.

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The quotes from Duncan Smith & Rees Mogg remind me that in their brave new world from April 2019, all will be solved. :sarcasm:

Shard Aug 15th 2018 4:21 am
Re: The country we left behind
 
Originally Posted by Expatrick (Post 12548835)
The quotes from Duncan Smith & Rees Mogg remind me that in their brave new world from April 2019, all will be solved. :sarcasm:
They are both so astoundingly detached from reality.

scot47 Aug 20th 2018 1:46 am
Re: The country we left behind
 
Delusional f-wits who still believe in The Empire. The Wrath of the Almighty will fix them !

Shard Aug 20th 2018 3:03 am
Re: The country we left behind
 
Originally Posted by scot47 (Post 12551479)
Delusional f-wits who still believe in The Empire. The Wrath of the Almighty will fix them !
Moggs is quite the believer in the Almighty too, particularly the Catholic version (against abortion and homosexuality). The people of North Somerset must be in a complete social time warp to elect JRM as their representative.

BristolUK Nov 25th 2018 11:05 pm
Re: The country we left behind
 
Sainsbury's launches scheme labelling items useful to food banks
Dedicated shelf-edge labels alerting shoppers to food and drink items that are most useful to food banks are to be introduced by a major supermarket for the first time after a trial led to a three-fold rise in donations.
It's a nice idea and all but what an indictment on the way things have gone.

Shard Nov 25th 2018 11:31 pm
Re: The country we left behind
 
Originally Posted by BristolUK (Post 12599509)
Sainsbury's launches scheme labelling items useful to food banks

It's a nice idea and all but what an indictment on the way things have gone.
Yes, that's a point. I suppose it's a bit like the American system where charity plays a greater role in providing a social safety net than the state. Regressive.

BristolUK Nov 26th 2018 1:03 am
Re: The country we left behind
 
Originally Posted by Shard (Post 12599521)
Yes, that's a point. I suppose it's a bit like the American system where charity plays a greater role in providing a social safety net than the state. Regressive.
I guess in America, though, it was never different. Canada too, of course.

My wife used to marvel at the things I told her about the UK system. :(

BristolUK Jan 8th 2019 9:19 am
Re: The country we left behind
 
Food bank broken into
A fundraiser has been launched by Oldham food bank after a burglary in which items including cash donations, food and electronics used by volunteers were stolen.
:frown:

BristolUK Mar 19th 2019 11:39 pm
Re: The country we left behind
 
Rough sleepers to be offered stab-proof coats
Rough sleepers are to be offered stab-proof coats that turn into sleeping bags to keep them safe from attacks, amid evidence of growing violence against people living on Britain’s streets.
:blink:

Shard Mar 20th 2019 1:36 am
Re: The country we left behind
 
Originally Posted by BristolUK (Post 12656788)
The way things are going, I think everyone should be issued with one. :blink::unsure:

BristolUK Apr 1st 2019 11:10 pm
Re: The country we left behind
 
Children in low-income families suffer 'shame and social exclusion'

Things are a bit different to my day. On Monday we bought our dinner tickets for the week and handed one over on each lunchtime when we ate. Those on free school meals also got the same tickets so they were not identified.

There was no choice of food other than not eat something but there was no junk.
Schools identify children on free school meals (FSM) by restricting the food options that they can select, causing children embarrassment. Maddy, 16, described her embarrassment at being identified as being on FSM. “When she [lunchtime staff at the checkout] was like ‘You can’t get that, you’re free school meals’, like I was really embarrassed ’cos people were waiting behind me, I was kind of like “Oh my God”. And it’s like you’re really restricted to what you can eat with free school meals. So now I just get what I know I’m safe with … so a small baguette and carton of juice.”
What's on the menu, then, that the price difference is enough that some items are not covered for those on free school meals? Or is it the quantity?

And what is this "money on the card" that someone spoke of, something with a magnetic strip? Does it work the same way as dinner tickets used to?

Shard?


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