Why can’t I find good plain Yorkshire food?

From: RW Place, Huddersfield.

LATER this year, we hope to celebrate our silver wedding anniversary and so are looking for hotels/restaurants which can provide a range of “proper meals”.

According to what we see, very few venues are able to deal with our dietary problems. They can only offer meals which contain every conceivable spice, herb and other garnishes.

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We have personally visited some and on stipulating what we want we have been turned away because catering for us would mean an unacceptable deviation from the resources.

One of us is diabetic and according to them they have no idea what diabetics can and cannot eat.

For example, we attended a function where the meal was to be delayed and on asking if they could supply something which would temporarily prevent a hypoglycaemic episode the chef could only come up with crisps and salted peanuts.

Two venues did in fact say that they could help us, only to find that when the meal was brought to the table, guess what, it contained spices and so forth.

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When we pointed this out we were told that “that there was only a little in and so it would do us no harm”.

Well it jolly well would, the terms none, nil, zero, zilch, mean exactly that.

We are repeatedly told that chefs have been taught to the highest degree in the best kitchens.

So surely they know how to cook a meal for someone with acute dietary problems and diabetes.

Can anyone give us menus with a selection of suitable fare?

It would also help if the menus were in English. Yorkshire people like to know what they are eating.

We do not want to have to rely on the good old soup and scampi in a basket.

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