Comments on: Home cooked and home grown

by: exmonkey

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:56:44 +0000

As a tax payer - I give you full permission to put your feet up on the desk. You may also, with my blessing, twiddle your thumbs.

by: Stewart

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 12:37:05 +0000

That’s the problem, 50% of the population don’t know we exist, 49% of the population don’t believe we exist and 1% of the population phone us up and complain about ’scanty and frivolous’ things like ‘home cooked’ and ‘home grown’. So rather than waste tax payers money sitting with my feet up on the desk reading the paper all day, I thought I’d give some pro active thoughts on the subject……but now you’ve got ME thinking…do I actually exist??

by: exmonkey

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 10:51:12 +0000

Two things here.

1 - Thank you for your comprehensive and serious reply to a scanty and frivolous post.
2 - I still don’t believe that Trading Standards exist. Simply having a website is not proof of existence - after all God has a website and he sure as hell doesn’t exist.

by: Stewart

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 08:33:20 +0000

I doubt very much that the term ‘home grown potatoes’ could be deemed sufficiently misleading to force a farmer to remove the sign, the potatoes are grown at his home rather than e.g. brought from jersey or ayrshire, it would just be seen as another way of advertising that they are locally produced. ‘Home Cooked’ however is different, The food standards agency have guidelines for the term ‘home made’ which i assume would also be relevant to ‘home cooked’ which are,

72. In order to accommodate the production of meals and dishes on commercial catering premises, the term “home-made” should be restricted to the preparation of the recipe on the premises, from primary ingredients, in a way that reflects a typical domestic situation. This should not be
achieved simply by the assembly of wholly pre-prepared elements, or simple reconstitution from dry base mixes, but must involve some degree of fundamental culinary preparation. As in domestic preparation, it would be legitimate for caterers to use partly-prepared ingredients; typical examples could include the use of pre-prepared raw pastry, bakery bread
in desserts or stock cubes in sauces.

Yoy can get details of your local trading standards dept at www.tradingstandards.gov.uk by keying in your postcode. We are out there and it’s not really that difficult to find us !!