A great deal if not most of the pleasantness of food has been hijacked by Big Foodie, ( the food version of that manipulating and money making shower Big Pharma ). Using advertising, with a good deal of salt, sugar, refined and processed dairy, carbohydrate, protein and fat they are manipulating our taste for all food.
The real difficulty now is that we have the ‘need’ for the taste and texture and seek it no matter how bad we know it is for us.
Crisps are a prime example and they have become almost de rigeur, at least a small portion, in kid’s lunches in the UK - sliced potato burned in much used fat till it is crisped and flavoured with familiar items like cheese, sausage and mash, onion in packet where the retained fat in the potato can become rancid.
The popularity of such rubbish foods will persist till there is something to take their place.
That is the challenge!
What could be nicer for a sweet that apple pie and cream. The cream is probably the healthiest bit but the apple usually has refined cornflour as a carrier with added sugar. The pastry is fat and refined flour, the latter being probably the most unhealthy of the two with almost certainly some sugar as well.
Imagine the pastry being of a high fibre flour and butter, the apples being tart Bramleys, no sugar but a dash of lemon juice and cloves in a carrier of gluten free flour and some psylium to make the carrier a little gelatinous and to make the apple pulp a continuum.
The cream stays as it is, whipped into peaks, and then the contrast comes between the relatively sweet cream and the sharp apple and lemon. Textually and taste wise all contrasting and fabulously healthier than the usual sweet mix.
Note that I said healthier not healthy! It's just a step on the way to getting the taste buds in a new frame of mind.
