Saturday afternoon - 3 to 5 pm - there's 2 hours of my life I won't get back.
Why? Because I spent doing my best bovine impersonation, along with about half of Sydney's population, at the [NOT] Good Food and Wine Show.
This is my fourth visit and last. It started off as a way to showcase interesting, often small, food companies and their offerings. A chance to taste some things you might not see at the supermarket. An opportunity to see some chefs in full flight (Big Jay and I saw Gordon Ramsay a couple of years ago, which was entertaining if odd, with the audience screaming like he was a rock star... and if anyone recognises rock-star-style screaming it would be me).
Anyway, this year I went with my mum and sister and it was awful from the very first minute when we were squeezed in there like toothpaste going back into it's tube. There were so many people we barely got close to any of the stalls and only tasted a handful of items. Most of the time we were shuffling along with the throng, having our feet stepped on and my nanna trolley (which is useful for bringing home the sample and "Show Special" bags) tripped over.
The moment I knew this show had lost the plot was when we spotted the Lean Cuisine stand. I don't think there's any real need to spell out why I think a Good Food and Wine Show is no place for Lean Cuisine.
What I don't understand is why they can't break it up into "sessions" and only allow in a limited number of people for each session. It just seems logical to me. That way it would be an enjoyable experience rather than one I couldn't wait to get out of.
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Ah dear, when will you learn! Now Taste of Chicago, that is good!
Ugh! Sounds like an extremely unpleasant experience.
And Lean Cuisine?!?!?! What were they thinking?
Unfortunately it is the big multi-national companies that have the money to be there!
Which reminds me, I recommend you go and watch a DVD called "Food Inc". Kind of like a Michael Moore doco. Scary stuff!!
This morning that so called Master Chef Julie Goodwin was on the tele cooking pizza. Everything came from a jar, including the pizza base.
I am well fed up with food being turned into a pile of over commercialised glamourised bollocks. Case in point, Lean Cusine is not food, it's an abbomination.
Who is that person leaving the comments in Mandarin (?) . I think the google translation was Lost in Translation!!
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