Windmill's, bread, cheese & milkOk so I used to read these Steve Jackson & Ian Livingstone books when I was at School, called Fighting Fantasy series.
And this idea comes from this illustration in a book called "scorpion swamp". Where you are an adventurer travelling through a forest and you come across this open glade in the woods, where a man is sat against an old Oak tree, eating food from his picnic basket and carving slices of cheese from a huge wedge he has on an open piece of cloth.
This image really had me thinking about the fact that a lot of food is not natural in the sense a cucumber grows on a plant. It is man made food, designed for a purpose. Bread, cheese and large quantities of sugar rich milk were made to last. Back in the days around the roman times, even before when everyone did not have a horse and there were not shops everywhere you needed a lot of energy for your body that would last, and a loaf of bread or block of cheese would last days and you would be walking everywhere and doing lots of labour as well.
Now that there is food, coffee and more always close or within a car drive that type of food is not really required anymore for energy, it is more novelty, such as specialist french baking, cakes, pies, pastys nearly everything that is a snack has pastry, bread or similar and for what reason? just to hold the meat and veg inside?
I know that water has been introduced as well as many health foods but all this other food is still there around us in our environment all these extra energy sources that we eat and our bodys have had to adapt to all the extra unrequired energy... possibly adapting by shutting down or weakening the body functions that process this energy, because it might be compared to a "mobility scooter" where you have a scooter so dont need to use your legs so the muscles get weak. - where as you are obtaining so many nutrients, vitamin excess, carbs, sugars and so forth that the body parts that process those have shrunk as they are not needed to work as hard passing energy that needs to be used now. And instead it has adapted to store all the energy as fat.
When you take a drug like amphetamines, it ramps up that "reduced" processing function and squeezes more energy through to the usage function from the fat storage. Although this is further bombarding the processing functions further and even after getting slim with amphetamines, after you stop there is a rebound.
Instead if you found a medicine that worked the opposite to amphetamine and "starved" those energy processing mechanisms in the body, it would be like taking the "mobility scooter" away and having to use your legs again and regain the strength. The body would then have to work really hard to get energy through for immediate use and it would need to gradually grow back to full working capacity settings of sending food through the now "regrowing" convertors for immediate use and take it away from the stored fat reserves where immediate energy has been being stored.
Everyone has their own genetic settings either from random birth given physiology or from inherited "settings" where they would have a tendancy to get fat, or stay thinner regardless of what they ate, until habbit made changes or other genetic factors took effect. I actually may have explained this the wrong way around but the principle is similar. Also the genetic spread of more areas of fat also mean that someone who gets fat all over may be spreading the load contributing to their diabetes onset. But slim people who get it still may just have a underactive or overactive specific
Anyways. I do not want to criticise the bread industry or cheese industry or milk farming.. But those food sources are not "required" for energy like they used to be. Back in the history of time they were genius inventions that we needed for living and evolving. But now food has been made so easily available I think that those types of food should be "specialist" novelty foods for the connoisseur.. kind of like cigars used to be regarded. And I think they should be expensive.
I love windmills. And I think it is a shame a lot of them lost their sails during the war, for whatever reasons..
I do think they are very quirky and beautifull, but I can not stand the new modern wind farms which we do not really need because of other natural power sources like water. (wind would be better for vehicles)
Anyway... My idea is this pretty simple (if you have the same taste as me anyway)
I would like to see all or a lot of the remaining traditional windmills restored and working. I would like to see them made into "SPECIALIST BREADERY RESTAURANTS" where you can take the family out for the day and get to eat and sample all different kinds of tasty bread varietys, sandwiches and baking based foods.
You could get to look around the windmill, see it working, and they could have all kinds of interesting things to look at, even have a dairy farm you can look around and or cheese making section.
You could have it all on site or the actual restaurant in the nearby village with a restored village green.
I think that people would love to spend days out at these places.
Rather than huge bread battery mills pounding out 100,000 loaves of the same white bread, loaf after loaf.
They could even have pasty restaurants down south in cornwall.
I think you should pay good money for good breads and it should be a pleasure, not a snack. I think it should be less easily available, and only foods that have lower enegy should be easy to obtain for snacks. Obviously this is not a scientific evidence based idea.
"Bakers born and bread" are these bakers really proud of their baking traditions and history, or is it all about the "bread" - the ammount of money they are churnin out of huge mills on massive production numbers?
If I am wrong I am wrong, I put my hand up.... But I like the idea and I think that it would be a hugely rewarding day to day life running a specialist windmill and own restaurant than a bread battery mill.
Much more pride and they could have competitions against eachother for the best restaurant & windmill.
If you want to make money, work in a printing press i say.
If you want to make the best breads you can be proud of then restore a windmill, dairy farm or cheesery where people can enjoy coming to see you and you can teach them all about bread.
And regular shop might benefit our health & body type being restored to its regular settings by less energy food being put too readily available. It will not stop someone buying 20 breads from the windmill restaurant or store, but it will make it a lot less easy to make purchases we do not need...
(like special offers and other psychological selling weapons) That just add cost to the NHS.
Anyway I hope you like the idea, unless your idea of a good idea is kicking bus shelters through... in which case you might be better off finding a ninja master and training to break planks of wood or tiles with your bare hands and feet? lol. ??
Btw... I am just watching Wallace & grommit "A matter of loaf & death". Also I did think the new "Stallone" Warburtons advert was pretty decent.
I thought I would add this regional translation for a Teacake depending on where you live.. Even though recently a national "bun" term seems to be the norm.
Bap - a Teacake (universal term for small teacake in most supermarkets)
Stottie - Scottish teacake
Flatcake - a large teacake, but word used for regular teacake in Lincolnshire
Bread Roll - some regions word for teacake, (but meant to be a long teacake)
Batch - Cheshire & Manchester word for teacake.
BarnCake - Lancashire & Cumbria word for teacake
Pontefract cake - actually liquorice not bread!
Roll - Southern word teacake, confusing as they use baguettes a lot and a roll is supposed to be long not round.
Teacake - Proper Yorkshire word for the dam thing
Current Teacake - A TEACAKE WITH CURRENTS ADDED EXTRA
Hot Cross bun - a spiced exotic flavoured bread with a cross pattern on it.
Oatcake - be carefull what you say as this is in fact a pancake used instead of bread in the pottery's (Staffordshire)
Various brown bread versions of the above just to confuse the matter!
Just so you know what you are asking for... I just say Bread now. Lol. Less arguments! All those terms for a piece of bread!