In article , PeterE writes
You could be right but when I eat in pubs I rarely go for the 'poncy' stuff I generally stick to mixed grills, gammon, steak and ale pies and the like.
I know staff at three of the pubs and they do cook 'proper' food to order, it might not be organic or local but it's home-made and good value, Yorkshiremen don't chuck their brass away on rubbish, well only once :-)
Mike
Er, how can it be "home-made" if it's not "local"?
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In article , PeterE writes
My wife bakes 'home-made bread', are you saying it's not 'home-made' because the flour isn't grown in a field next to my house?
A pub can sell 'home-made' food with the meaning to most people that the food is cooked on site, only the pedantic would interpret this as meaning that the food is actually grown in the pub garden, reared in the pub pig farm and slaughtered in the pub abattoir.
Mike
In that case it is clearly home-made. A pub brewing its own beer from barley grown many miles away still qualifies as a home-brew pub. But how many pubs bake their own bread?
If it's "home-made" it implies the dish has been made up on site from basic ingredients.
"Home-cooked" means nothing more than a bought-in pie has been heated up on the premises.
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There's an internet cafe near me which advertises home-made soup.
The soup is not made on the premises (there is a planning condition on the site which prevents preparation of hot food).
They also sell a full breakfast.
In both cases, they claim that the food is cooked somewhere else, and reheated at the cafe.
Trading Standards aren't willing to take action over the "home made" claim, because they say it doesn't have to be made on the premises.
So I'd say that, legally, the term "home made" is meaningless.
Robin
----- Original Message ----- From: "Robin Cox" Newsgroups: uk.food+drink.real-ale Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 2:14 PM Subject: Re: what the price for a pint of beer in england? on avarage
As far as I know, your descriptions are correct Peter.
"Robin Cox" replied
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*You* might say that, but the following extract was actually taken from a Trading Standards website, and it doesn't sound 'meaningless' to me ! ***"Care must be taken in the use of supplementary descriptions, 'home made' should *only* be used in relation to food *made on the premises* principally from primary ingredients".
"It is an *offence to display misleading or incorrect information*".
***Hope this helps ?
Dave
So TSOs are inconsistent, that shouldn't surprise anyone.
When you see the phrase "home made" in relation to food or drink how do you know what it actually means if some TSOs won't enforce misuse of the description?
Robin
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