Worst Food @ Glasto

[Inhaler]

well, true. But if you're going to have a dedicated 'food court', i'd have thought that you'd want to put only what you know to be great traders in there. That was what I was getting at.

How many different food traders do you think there are, who can do enough business at temporary locations to financially support themselves?

Expecting any event to have it's own unique roster of traders is a laughable idea.

[Dipset]

Breakfast in general every day I found awful. Is it really that hard to make sausage and bacon baguette?? Also was the food more quite a bit more expensive this year?

[wetwipes]

Pretty Darned Poor: The Thali from The Thali Tent in the greenfields (I was sheltering from the rain). A bit of rice, a bit of salad and a small amount of entirely liquid curried sauce with no discernable substance whatsoever.

Compared to the wonderful Thali the following day from "Ghandi's Flip Flop" at the entrance to West Holts, for a similar price. Only sorry I never returned for the banana fritters I saw. And that I obviously missed out on the samosas everyone is raving about

[eFestivals]

Perhaps - but i do expect them to be of a sufficient quality - which most of it wasn't, especially at the ridiculous prices being asked.

Hmmmm, you get quality and shite on any high street. I'd say it wasn't possible to buck that trend in a festival when that festival needs to have as many food traders as it does.

(it would be possible to do at a smaller fest of course, but even that is likely to take a few years of tuning).

Any drop in quality this year - and I'd say there was a drop, but that's too anecdotal to be really meaningful - I'd guess at being more the result of the general economy than anything else. It's quite possibly the case that many traders are going for cheaper ingredients in an effort to keep their costs down to help keep their prices down, while also keeping their businesses profitable.

While the food prices for festival goers is high, at all festivals that's more the result (as a generalisation) of the festival's pitch fees than it is outright greed by the traders.

[jameshunt]

Surprisingly, as I am usually a huge fan of the Thali Cafe, but the one in the Park was ripping people off with nothing but sauce left in their supposedly Chicken curry. No joke, but between two servings of it we got one small piece of chicken in one of them an no chicken in the other. I can't help but think that their standards have dropped since they've opened half a dozen other cafes around the country now.

[Inhaler]

Hmmmm, you get quality and shite on any high street. I'd say it wasn't possible to buck that trend in a festival when that festival needs to have as many food traders as it does.

(it would be possible to do at a smaller fest of course, but even that is likely to take a few years of tuning).

Any drop in quality this year - and I'd say there was a drop, but that's too anecdotal to be really meaningful - I'd guess at being more the result of the general economy than anything else. It's quite possibly the case that many traders are going for cheaper ingredients in an effort to keep their costs down to help keep their prices down, while also keeping their businesses profitable.

While the food prices for festival goers is high, at all festivals that's more the result (as a generalisation) of the festival's pitch fees than it is outright greed by the traders.

[Dave The Hedgehog]

How many different food traders do you think there are, who can do enough business at temporary locations to financially support themselves?

Expecting any event to have it's own unique roster of traders is a laughable idea.

[eFestivals]

but I found myself going down most of the paths looking up and down seeing the same similar things onsale, just in different locations dotted around.

yup - but once you've been to a couple of fests you've pretty much done the mainstays, and they're mainstays because they're food that people are known to like, and they work for eating on the move at a festival.

You know, like, I want grated fulmar on my caribou burger from the Eskimo stand. Slay me a deer for fuck sake - no venison stands around that I saw. No Greek food? No South American cuisine? Bit of Lebanese for me; some decent Indian stalls but otherwise, food was a bloody disaster and the prices. My God the prices! I'll keep talking about that bloody crepe.

there was a whole market area of *just* South American.

So there was clearly a lot of stalls you didn't notice.

[Mardy]

Had some lovely crayfish up on Williams green

[Dave The Hedgehog]

there was a whole market area of *just* South American.

So there was clearly a lot of stalls you didn't notice.

[eFestivals]

Really!? Jesus...

Where was that?

in the Glasto Latino field, funnily enough.

[eatingglitter]

Had some lovely crayfish up on Williams green

[Mardy]

The Crayfish was AWESOME.

[thesecretingredientiscrime]

It depends. I said before I was half expecting from anecdotal experience that a festival as international and as popular as Glastonbury would have a more multicultural market feel. Granted it wasn't corporate food - no Pizza Express and so on - but I found myself going down most of the paths looking up and down seeing the same similar things onsale, just in different locations dotted around. You know, like, I want grated fulmar on my caribou burger from the Eskimo stand. Slay me a deer for fuck sake - no venison stands around that I saw. No Greek food? No South American cuisine? Bit of Lebanese for me; some decent Indian stalls but otherwise, food was a bloody disaster and the prices. My God the prices! I'll keep talking about that bloody crepe.

Edited July 4, 2013 by thesecretingredientiscrime

[Dave The Hedgehog]

in the Glasto Latino field, funnily enough.