“The knowledge economy is something where we can drive GDP growth,” Thilthorpe said, “it is of major importance.”
Thilthorpe agrees that it has taken a long time for policy makers to react to looming skills shortages.
“The penny has dropped – it took a long time coming. It is very difficult to deny that IT has become absolutely ubiquitous,” he said. “People are beginning to understand that if they get stuff right they can reap the benefits very quickly.”
- EU warns over European IT skills crisis, TechEye.net, March 22, 2017.
2. I asked our server if the fruit in the “fresh fruit cup” was in fact fresh. She looked slightly puzzled, as if not quite understanding my question. She began talking about how it was in a cup, and it was fresh, but it was in a cocktail. (I think she meant cocktail liquid or syrup perhaps.) It was this and it was that. I found her answer confusing, but she did appear to be totally sincere and trying.
Finally I said, “Is the fruit actually cut up in your kitchen and put in a bowl?”
That’s when the penny dropped. She replied, “No, it comes in a tub from Sysco.” (Sysco sells processed foods that allow restaurants to cut back on labour.)
So, my question is, why call this stuff “fresh fruit” on a menu? Has the term been co-opted to mean bottled, canned, tubbed, preserved, dried or powdered? Personally, I’ve always been under the impression that fresh fruit meant fruit that had come — with possibly an intervening plane or truck ride — pretty much straight from the orchard or field.
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