Re:British Rail’s short experiment with travelling pubs
by fnord123 on Thursday April 16, 2020 @09:36AM
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Plums grow in England. I don't know where you got the idea that they aren't possible to be local produce or the idea that you cannot run a good restaurant more than 15 minutes drive from a plum tree. I think the food mania is in the room but it's not coming from me.
Re:British Rail’s short experiment with travelling pubs
by mhh__ on Thursday April 16, 2020 @09:33AM
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> I've just google image searched for the Spitalfields Market, apparently people in here believe that plums and avocado grow just outside of London (because that's what I saw in those photos).
London is only 35 miles away from the sea, how far do you think it is to a field.
As to your Van Drive: For example, Brixham (160 miles) is a popular place to get high quality seafood for the posher end of the restauraunts, this is ~3hr30. Getting fresh ingredients to london is a completely solved problem.
Re:British Rail’s short experiment with travelling pubs
by mstade on Thursday April 16, 2020 @09:53AM
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I was really confused by this comment because Spitalfields market as far as I know isn't really a food market, or at least isn't these days; but what they're probably referring to is New Spitalfields Market, i.e. not the one in the City. I wonder why they chose the same name as the old market, super confusing.
What I'm saying is that London cannot compete with countries/provinces where plums or what have you grow just a 15-min van drive away from said restaurants, and as such calling a city like London "the food capital of Europe" is a joke. Anyway, also calling Napoli the "food capital of Europe is a joke" because of its size and population density, I can assure you that a 2- or 3-hour drive to the South can get you to some random Calabria small town with way better food than you can get in most of Napoli.
But the food-mania is high with many people who think that just because a place happens to have money it also has good food.