Too much or Too Little?

 

Well, here we are again at yet another lazy Sunday afternoon gratuitous food post. Pictured, our supper of pan-fried Welsh lamb cutlets, minted new potatoes and Greek salad. All very nice, I thank you: the lamb was lovely [and there's nowt but bone left on our post-prandial plates as evidence to the fact]; but O! how expensive has our national meat become. Thirty-four pounds a kilo! Each of these cutlets prices out at £3.12p apiece. I'll leave the older of you to ponder on this little factoid: when we did our first lamb spit roast down in Brynbella [I know it was thirty-odd years ago now], we bought a whole carcass for exactly that same amount of money: thirty-four quid. And as it was around thirty-five pounds in weight, that puts the per-kilo price then at around two quid. I'm not one to champion stupidly cheap, factory-farmed food or cost-cutting when it comes to farming, but it does act as a real wake-up call as to where our priorities lie in this world, with people being effectively priced out of buying decent food at the cost of [effectively] corporate greed. The corporate greed that penalises both producers and consumers through wholesale price and wage strangulation alike. There will ultimately be a pitchforks moment when a hard-pressed populace says enough and kicks back at the traces. I hope that I'm still breathing when that moment occurs...