large booking at restaurant- how to split the bill?

missbiggles1

Frogletina wrote: »

I stopped learning French at 16 - is there a vegetarian option on the menu? I think I lived on omelettes on the few occasions I've been to France.

Never mind, I'll just have a pudding and champagne

frogletina

There are many restaurants that offer a vegetarian option these days, plus places like pizza restaurants. Unfortunately, that isn't one of them.:)

Homeownertobe

missbiggles1 wrote: »

I'd be more bothered whether everybody in the world had enough to eat rather than being concerned that those of us in the pampered West are eating "clean", particularly when it means spending unnecessary extra money to do so.

And that's an option for you. I don't see it as an either/or. It's a personal choice.

Pollycat

Homeownertobe wrote: »

And that's an option for you. I don't see it as an either/or. It's a personal choice.

I don't mind people making personal choices (in all aspects of life, not just food) as long as they don't bang on about it to me as nauseum.

suki1964

silvercar wrote: »

Skimmed milk isn't watered down full fat milk, it is milk with the fat removed.

That is why the vitamin / calcium levels are the same, it is just the fat that is removed.

Actually vitamin A is added to skimmed milk as the natural occurring vit A is removed along with the fat

moneyistooshorttomention

I rather thought I'd read research that indicated some of the "goodness" had been removed from milk in the process of skimming it. One of those tables that said "Full fat milk has x% of this, y% of that" and then went on to indicate that "Skimmed milk has lower %age of this and lower %age of that".

My general take on skimmed milk tends to be "If I'm going to have to pay the same for my milk whether its full-fat or skimmed - then I'll buy full-fat and get my money's worth and not have the 'skimmings' made into whatever other product the manufacturer decides to use it for and get the profit from "my" food" iyswim.

onlyroz

silvercar wrote: »

Skimmed milk isn't watered down full fat milk, it is milk with the fat removed.

That is why the vitamin / calcium levels are the same, it is just the fat that is removed.

The "watered down" comment was in relation to low-fat coconut milk I think.

onlyroz

missbiggles1 wrote: »

I'd be more bothered whether everybody in the world had enough to eat rather than being concerned that those of us in the pampered West are eating "clean", particularly when it means spending unnecessary extra money to do so.

Trouble is that it's those of us in the pampered West who are getting obese due to our poor eating habits.

Pollycat

onlyroz wrote: »

Trouble is that it's those of us in the pampered West who are getting obese due to our poor eating habits.

Some - OK, a lot of - pampered Westerers are obese or getting obese through poor eating habits, but not all.

In my early 60s, I no longer have the 24" waist I had in my 20s but I still wear size 12 trousers and can kick up my heels and run for a bus without having a heart attack.

I don't eat 'clean', I'm not a vegetarian or vegan but still manage to eat healthily.

TBagpuss

Georgiegirl256 wrote: »

I don't like any wine tbh. Just wondered if there was a big difference?

'Champagne' is a controlled name so can only be used when it is grown in the Champagne region of France. Prosecco is the Italian equivalent and Cava the Spanish - they use the same varieties of grapes.

In my experience, you get charged for the 'champagne' name, so you normally get better quality wine if you buy prosecco or cava than if you spend the same amount of money on Champagne.
At present, I think Prosecco is getting more fashionable and well known so it isn't quite as cheap as it used to be

But I would normally expect a £10 bottle of prosecco or Cava to be bettter than a £10 bottle of champagne.

Person_one

Pollycat wrote: »

I don't eat 'clean', I'm not a vegetarian or vegan but still manage to eat healthily.

The whole clean/dirty thing is just another symptom of our massively unhealthy psychological relationship with food in the west.

Food, eating and size have all become far too closely linked with morality, class and judging a person's worth. Its not really about health in any meaningful way.