The Food Monologues

Both my older sisters are in the catering trade and tonight, both of them came round to visit. Well one of them came to collect her child, who was being looked after by my mum, and the other one came just to see my niece after she closed early because her extractor fan had broken down again. As I was dozing off in the corner, my sisters started to talk shop. When the discussion came to the price of potatoes - chips to be precise, it brought a smile to my face. Especially when my eldest sister started reviewing the qualities of various supermarket brand of frozen chips. Apparently, Tesco frozen chips are not very good - they take too long to cook and their texture isn't right. Iceland have good chips - though they are on the thin side. Her husband prefers the steak cut chips. The there are Kwik Save chips which, though on the thin side, fry to a golden colour, have a nice texture and are reasonably priced. Then the conversation moved onto the quality of long grain rice, and apparently though Costco rice is very reasonably priced, it apparently needs more water to cook - so does that mean that you get more rice for your money?