Fyfe Robertson looks at the way British eating habits have changed in the last generation, due to modern methods of food technology and production and the influence of food from around the world.
Fyfe’s food Odyssey sees him trying gourmet French cusine at the Imperial Hotel in Torquay, visiting an organic farm in Suffolk, an old-fashioned grocers in Ennis, County Clare, Harry Ramsden’s fish and chip restaurant in Guisley and a food factory at Alveston – where restaurant quality meals are made on an industrial scale.
Finally, Robbie visits the Arkady Mills near Manchester, to witness something that could potentially revolutionise the way we eat and farm in the future – soya beans are being processed to create imitation meat. Fyfe samples a Scotch Egg that is entirely meat free.
Songs written and performed by Ian Campbell.
Clip taken from Robbie, originally broadcast on BBC One, 7 August, 1975.
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21 Comments
Can't get enough Fyfe!
Just half a century ago, you could find some Scots who were proud to be, or at least identify as British.
A better name for Soup Kitchen? How about Broth L?
"Cook! Where's my suppah?" Give me one of Gran's home-made Cornish pasties from the 60's please. Best bought pasties in Kernow? Gear Farm Pasties, just outside Helston. They're proper splann!
Did this guy sing the songs too? He's funnier than Bob Dylan hahahahaha
Excellent
There are, historically speaking a lot of really good social history TV presenters.
And then, up there somewhere in the ether, there is Fyfe Robertson.❤
The old shop in Ennis, Co Clare makes the BBC. They must have been excited when the BBC came
Love watching these Robbie episodes. Wish I'd grown up with him on the telly! Ah well, plenty of catching up to do
It's an absolute pleasure to watch and listen to Fyfe.
He was clued in to the hilt.
21:42…Lol
This is disgusting and can't watch beyond one minute!
Dude singing sounds Like James May, belting it out.
Can you imagine what he would have out of lab created meat!😮
It’s hard to believe such a great culture would commit suicide.
I'm hungry
Robbie… Legend…. Wish the Beeb could make something like this today.
If anyone is wondering, the Chinese restaurant (Willow Green) and the adjacent chemist's (AC Stockwell) shown around 18:40 appear to be in Ealing High Street, London. You can confirm this at London Picture Archive (cat. # SC_PHL_01_614_82_2754), albeit in that photo from 1982, the restaurant already has a different name (China Garden).
Fyfie – what a splendid bloke! We'll not see his like again.
P.S. Back in '75 fish 'n' chips was still considered good protein & complex carbohydrates… What a much sadder world it is 50 years on.
If they removed all the protein from the flour before making it into bread, there would be no gluten and the bread could not rise. Thirty minutes of talking about food by someone who doesn't know very much about it, complete with an absolutely ridiculous number of outfit changes.
This documentary was put together like a master piece, the camera man did a fantastic job.