Day 016 - 22 Jul 94 - Page 27
1 A. Could I have a copy of those, please?
2 MR. RAMPTON: They are in tab 6.
3 MR. JUSTICE BELL: After table 2 in your statement, tab 5, was
it?
4
MR. RAMPTON: 99B in tab 6 in the yellow bundle, sorry. Volume
5 V, turn to section 6.
6 MR. JUSTICE BELL: 99B.
7 MR. RAMPTON: 99B.
A. Yes, I am there now.
8
MS. STEEL: I have not had much time to look through these, so
9 I cannot ask a great deal of questions, but I think
yesterday we were talking about chips. I was asking you
10 to make a comparison between a potato and McDonald's
french fry. I think you made some kind of -- I do not
11 know whether "sneering" would be too strong a word --
comment that children preferred to eat chips to boiled
12 potatoes or any other type of potato?
A. Well, if you interpreted it as sneering, I apologise
13 -- I did not mean that. But certainly it is true that in
many households children -- as your Lordship pointed out,
14 their mums actually prefer chips to boiled potatoes --
I do know that many schools that have attempted to
15 introduce or to offer boiled potatoes or maybe baked
potatoes as an alternative to chips invariably find there
16 is a much greater demand for chips.
17 Q. Bearing that in mind, do you think that these diet plans
that you have drawn up for children are realistic examples
18 of what children might eat?
A. Let me just look through again. As you probably
19 realise, we have prepared five different diets for the
Saturday and then separate diets for all the other days of
20 the week. You will see that they contain shepherds pie,
chocolate biscuits, fish fingers, roast chicken, chicken
21 curry and rice, breaded chicken portion, battered cod,
chip potatoes -- chips are in there as it happens on one
22 of them -- Yorkshire pudding and roast beef. These are
all pretty common diets and again, at the end of the day,
23 it is up to each individual household what it is they
choose. If they want to choose chips with everything and
24 cauliflower cheese with lots of things that are high in
fat, again I am sure we are both agreed that they will not
25 meet the dietary recommendations for the whole week.
26 Q. Do you know how many children like eating All Bran for
breakfast? Do you not think something like Frosties or
27 Sugar Puffs are more likely?
A. I have no idea.
28
Q. You do not know?
29 A. They may or they not do. It probably depends on what
their own personal preferences are, to what extent their
30 parents try to influence then.
