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PARIS 2024 OLYMPICS

‘Raw meat’: British team hit out at Paris Olympics food

France is known as the home of haute cuisine, but the British delegation has said it is dissatisfied with the food available in the Olympic Village, which it said included ‘raw meat’.

Published: 26 July 2024 16:01 CEST
International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach at a salad bar at the Olympic Village
International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach at a salad bar at the Olympic Village. (Photo by David Goldman / POOL / AFP)

The delegation has brought in its own chef, and has complained about the lack of certain foods and its quality, according to British media.

Andy Anson, chief executive of the British Olympic Committee, told the Times that a ‘radical improvement’ was needed.

“There are some things where there is not enough: eggs, chicken, certain carbohydrates,” Anson said, referring to meals at restaurant facilities at the Olympic Village, where athletes are housed.

“And then there is the question of the quality of the food; athletes are served raw meat,” he said.

Anson said the food issue is ‘the biggest problem at the moment’, and said the extra chef was brought in to meet the extra demand from the delegation.

A Team GB spokesman told AFP hours before the opening ceremony, that things were looking up. “The latest update is that we understand the situation is improving and being attended to by Paris 2024,” he said.

French sports newspaper L’Equipe quoted a firm responsible for catering as saying that it was aware of issues, including a shortage of eggs, and was working to increase supplies.

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  1. That’s because the British don’t eat meat unless it’s cooked to the consistency of shoe leather. Absolute dangers all of them.

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FOOD AND DRINK

Vegan Nutella to hit supermarket shelves in Italy and France this week

Italian food giant Ferrero on Tuesday announced the imminent launch of a vegan version of its popular hazelnut spread Nutella in Italy, France and Belgium, saying the move was in response to changing consumer tastes.

Published: 3 September 2024 14:29 CEST
Vegan Nutella to hit supermarket shelves in Italy and France this week

Vegan Nutella will no longer contain any dairy ingredients, which are to be replaced with chickpeas and rice syrup, Ferrero said in a statement.

“No compromises” were made concerning the taste of Nutella, launched 60 years ago and marketed in around 170 countries, the Italian company said.

The new product is to become available from Wednesday, it said.

“More and more consumers are opting to reduce, or cut out, animal products,” it said.

Lactose-intolerant people should, however, be careful about eating plant-based Nutella as it was being made in factories where dairy ingredients were used for other products, said Ferrero, which also owns the Kinder, Tic Tac and Ferrero Rocher brands.

Along with other food companies, Ferrero has come under criticism for using palm oil to make Nutella, thus encouraging the clearing of tropical forests to establish palm oil monocultures.

READ ALSO: Italy’s Nutella spread turns 60: from a factory in Piedmont to global success story

The company has since created a “segregated” chain for palm oil, which it says allows the tracing of its palm oil to the mills, “guaranteeing that it does not come from plantations subject to deforestation”.

Traditional Nutella contains sugar, palm oil, hazelnuts, milk, cocoa, lecithin and vanillin, according to Ferrero.

The spread has a cult-like following across the world, with American blogger Sara Rosso launching World Nutella Day in 2007. This is celebrated on February 5th every year, with fans sharing pictures and recipe ideas.

Among Nutella-inspired initiatives was a challenge to make a record-length Nutella pizza in Sydney earlier this year, stretching for a continuous 100 metres.

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