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Fast Food = Poor Diet + Poor Cooking Skills?

You never are far away from fast food; you can ring for a take-away, order on the internet or walk into one of the many high street fast food outlets.

Are we a nation of fast food addicts? And does it have an effect on cooking ability? The answer could be a bit of both.
It has been implied that this rise in the fast food culture has had knock on effects. Firstly, we are perceived as a lazy, obese nation that finds it only too easy to get a take-away. Secondly, it has been suggested this has led to a lack of ability of cooking at home. These opinions can be viewed as a huge generalisation.

Great Britain was once ridiculed by their European cousins for the lack of taste to the bland food that appeared on dinner tables up and down the country. Now our fair isles can hold its head up high and can be thought as one of the most adventurous and diverse nations for food.

I, for instance consider myself to be relatively healthy. I am not by any means a health food freak that will happily eat raw carrots and seeds but I do like variety in my diet.
If it wasn’t for the humble fast food outlets, I doubt I would ever experience the delights of a Mutton curry from my local take-away or even the pleasures of finding somewhere at an unsociable time to eat a kebab after a night drinking beer. My tastes buds have been woken up to new styles of cuisine, food that I would never have the chance of eating.

There is, however, two sides to every story and there will always be a percentage of people who will virtually live on take-away food. By this I mean, would you feed your toddler kebab and chips? Well, some people do, Jamie Oliver brought it to the attention of the British public by educating a Rotherham family. He made them aware of the health implications for them, if they carried on eating this food for much longer. He also proved that you can save money by cooking meals at home. Not only that but the family bonded more by cooking together and socialising at the...