I’m going native. One of my most recent purchases was a slow cooker. A monster capacity tub that cooks stews and other marvellous meals overnight or during the day. So I can throw a handful of ingredients in there in the morning – it spends the day cooking ever so slowly and then there’s a whole hot meal ready for me when I get back. Great. The food has been pretty good so far and there’s nothing like cooking a piece of cheap meat for 10 hours to give it that fall off the fork tenderness…
Here’s the puzzle – guess what accessory I received with the cooker…..it was a carry case. Yes really, a heavy duty case for the cooker, like a little tent for the contraption when I go camping. It took me a while to work out what the case might be for – it is because Americans DO carry food to places – eg for potlucks and similar meals are all transported in these things, presumably in their carry cases. I now have visions of hordes of yummy mummies clutching Louis Vuitton carry cases for their slow cookers…..a new market niche perhaps?
The real mystery to me is why they would supply the thing without a lid that closes. Yes really. So given that nobody here actually walks anywhere, it would have to be carried, in its case, in the back of one of those mobile blancmanges they call cars here. That’s just crazy.