Breakfast with Brexit

A light-hearted post about ‘eating Brexit’

“This morning do you mind if we turn off BBC Radio 4?”, says Stephanie,  “I can’t stand anymore Brexit”.

Suddenly, we have a divine silence as John Humphrys’ voice tails off, leaving him to argue with himself.

Stephanie breaks the moment with a question. “What does it say on the side of the milk carton?” “And where do those berries come from?”

“Let me get my glasses”, I reply. “Well, the milk is British, and the berries apparently come from Morocco and Chile”.

We look at each other. Now, that is quite a good start, isn’t it?”, Stephanie continues. “A Brexit breakfast!”

All great ideas start with a light-bulb moment, and this was one of them. The question was – “could we survive Brexit’’? What would be the real impact on us of forfeiting French wine and Dutch cheese? Could we live off the land, or at least our British islands, former Commonwealth countries and British Protectorates? What about our beloved Argentina?

This became the challenge. We were to rehearse ‘life post Brexit’, on the assumption that tariffs announced today would make European Community imports prohibitive, or simply taste unpalateable.

We proceeded to draw up a list of what we consumed throughout the day, and the source from whence it came. . Our idea was to remove anything that comes in a lorry from a Channel port – from the European Union or imported through it. And this is what we found. There is a beautiful culinary post-Brexit, one that comprises intelligent choices without sacrificing flavour or diversity.

Sample menu

Breakfast – homemade roast nut and Canadian maple syrup gluten-free granola, homemade yoghurt, with berries from Chile

Whole bean coffee from Colombia / South African Rooibos tea

Lunch – Peruvian avocados served with home grown chives, Louisiana tabasco and Scottish oatcakes

Supper – English lamb with home grown root vegetables and rosemary from the garden, Poligonos del Valle de Uco, Mendoza, Argentina

Which only goes to show that it is possible to survive post Brexit. The question is, how will you cope?

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