Just What Did They Expect?

[youngmafbog]

And why do we have to pamper to it?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5119791/The-food-far-Western-complain-detained-migrants.html#comments

[ToraToraTora]

what do they want? k1n Michelin stars!

[ToraToraTora]

let's send Gordon Ramsay in to sort out the cuisine PMSL!

[emmie]

i don't know the answer, but the sooner we solve the immigration crises in these centres the better.

[dave50]

Tough, eat it or starve.

[baza]

What did they expect, home cooking with benefits, no one asked them to come here.

[Butterbun]

I agree with dave50 @12.20

[ummmm]

I don't think much else can be said.

It doesn't appear that they've complained it's seems like they were given a survey to fill out.

[vetuste_ennemi]

/A report by Peter Clarke, the Chief Inspector of Prisons, said: ‘The food that we sampled was adequate, but most dishes comprised Western-style food and the menu lacked cultural diversity. The lunchtime meal consisted largely of baguettes or salad. There was very little in any of the menus to reflect the normal diets of, for example, Chinese or African women.’
Food should be suited to the ‘religious and cultural needs’ of detainees, said the report for HM Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP). Menus should ‘reflect the diverse needs of the population’.
However, managers were praised for preparing meals suitable for vegetarians, vegans and those with halal diets. Detainees also had access to kitchens where they could cook their own food.//
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Food should be suited to the ‘religious and cultural needs’ of detainees, said the report", and "Menus should ‘reflect the diverse needs of the population'".

Why? If they were particularly bothered by these trivia then, presumably, the detainees (the population?) wouldn't have chosen to leave the country where their "needs" were properly catered for.

Is there a flaw in that line of reasoning?

[ToraToraTora]

no flaw VE bang on

[Mamyalynne]

I agree with Ummmm, they have been asked their opinions and given them.

It's to keep chat sites busy.

[Togo]

Wonder what they were eating as they made their ways across the World to get here? Did they complain in the EU about the lack of culinary diversity?

[Mamyalynne]

Were they surveyed?

If not we don't know.

[dannyk13]

Detainees or not, how many on here would be satisfied to live on baguettes and salad?

[ummmm]

danny - that's lunch.

[Gladeian]

Just speed up deporting them. Their cuisine needs can be supported elsewhere. This pandering to what are probably mostly illegal entrants is sickening when we observe that the costs of welfare for our elderly and needy people are subjected to cuts.

[dannyk13]

I still wouldn't like to eat that every day.

[Togo]

The report also says that they were given(given mind with free access to the phone systems) mobile phones to enable them to contact family and friends. We must be mad. "Hi Mum it's lovely here all free and they let us moan about everything. Drop everything and get here. Tell everybody to do the same it's a piece of cake. Gonna complain about this phone though, I fancy one of the latest models."

[Mamyalynne]

Perfectly fine to moan about surveys being done, but don't have a go at those who answer the questions.

[paddywak]

They could always give them the old traditional prison fare,Porridge for breakfast Bread and Water for supper and 12 hours hard labour in between.

[vetuste_ennemi]

//Wonder what they were eating as they made their ways across the World to get here? Did they complain in the EU about the lack of culinary diversity?//

This question highlights the contradiction implicit in the report: diversity is not about sameness, it's about difference[i, isn't it? Their European travels have introduced the detainees to a wide variety of foods, all those French cheeses, all those Italian pastas, and now a boring English salas. The approved wisdom has always been that this is a [i]good] thing, not something to be excoriated. If European societies are enriched and strengthened by all this diversity, then presumably Afghans and Eritreans must benefit from it too. (And if not, why not?)

When Blair and co decided to make Britain multicultural and (in the famous phrase) "rub [our] noses in diversity" we were told then not to complain. So we ought not hear complaints now from (or on behalf of) others about having diversity "thrust down [their] throats".