Council Buys 4m Portions of Frozen Chips

From the collection of

East Anglian Film Archive at the University of East Anglia

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Council Buys 4m Portions of Frozen Chips

East Anglian Film Archive at the University of East Anglia
Chelmsford
1987-02-16
Sound

Essex County Council bulk buys chips ahead of predicted price increase.

Bags of frozen chips equivalent to around four million portions have been purchased by Essex County Council to save the ratepayers' money ahead of predicted price rises resulting from a poor potato crop. They have also bought frying oil in readiness with an eye on the European surplus known as the 'olive oil lake'. The 40 container loads of chips will be stored ahead of distribution to the Council's 700 schools and 100 social services and residential homes as a staple part of their meals. In Chelmsford, Essex, county supplies officer Tony Bartholomew explains the £30,000 saving over scenes of dinner ladies and schoolchildren.The reporter was Surrey Beddows for this video made to be shown in a news story on Anglia Television early evening news / magazine programme About Anglia.

What We Ate

If 'we are what we eat', then we're definitely not who we used to be...

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36 videos in this collection

School Dinners Suck

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2004

Genetic Engineering and Farm Animals

1997

Organic Farming At Mangreen Farm

Mangreen Fm
1987-07-01

For a Takeaway

South Shields
1996-08-02

Foot And Mouth

2001

Curry City

Bradford
2000

Butcher Tours Schools in Lincolnshire

Grantham
1985-09-19

Health Foods Introduced to School Dinners

Stowupland
1985-07-09

Tucker's Crisps Use Unpeeled Potatoes

Norwich
1986-05-16

Here and Now

West Bromwich
1986-02-16

Vegetarian Cooking

1991-11-09

The Dales Diary

Kirkby Fleetham
1994-09-12

Bletchley Receives EEC Free Beef

Bletchley
1987-01-28