This latest clean eating craze is pasta joke
First they came for the bread, then they came for the dairy. Now, in a display of breathtaking chutzpah, the clean-eating brigade have done for pasta.
Thanks to the likes of Deliciously Ella advocating the use of spiralising – where an instrument of torture is used to turn courgettes into ribbons of “courgetti” – sales of pasta in the UK are at a record low, with consumption predicted to fall further over the next three years. Even in Italy, per head annual consumption fell to 15.2 kg in 2016, a drop of almost a kilo.
Whatever are we to make of this?
I’ve tried spiralising and I have to say: it simply doesn’t cut the mustard. If it’s pasta you are after, then no amount of mutilated vegetable is going to answer your carb craving. If it walks like a duck and it quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck – but spiralised food does not pass this test. I fear that, soon, we will no longer be able to buy anything as simple as a cheese sandwich in a supermarket. Have you seen the quinoa-based-madness that now passes for lunch in Marks and Spencer and Pret a Manger?
The enemy is not a bit of pasta from time to time. It’s our fear of it.