This year has not seen the usual proliferation of huge tubs of chocolate. Neither of us can really eat much chocolate without suffering from dumping syndrome, so it has been best to not have too much temptation. Over the years there has been a lot of heated debate in the family about which selection tubs […]
Entries Tagged as 'Food'
A good year for the roses
January 2nd, 2023 · Comments Off on A good year for the roses · Life
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Shameless Plug for a local business
February 13th, 2019 · Comments Off on Shameless Plug for a local business · Life
This afternoon Jayne brought to my attention the website lovebeanbuffet.com. Crawley locals may well be familiar with the Love Bean cafe in the town centre, especially if they are anything to do with the council. It is the nearest food place to the Town Hall and so is almost the staff canteen for the place. […]
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Food, glorious food
January 3rd, 2019 · 1 Comment · Life
Things are very much looking up as far as food is concerned. In the summer I was finding it increasingly harder to eat. More and more things became impossible, until I got to the point where all I could manage was Weetabix and soup, and then I couldn’t manage Weetabix any more and could only […]
Golden arches over London
November 23rd, 2017 · Comments Off on Golden arches over London · Life
I have spent the last couple of days visiting London for some meetings. On Tuesday I was in Stratford, practically in the shadow of West Ham’s stadium and on Wednesday I was at St Katherine’ Dock. So much has changed since I was last in London and compared to when I used to live there […]
The Loving Hut
July 30th, 2017 · Comments Off on The Loving Hut · Life
The Loving Hut sounds like it should be something to do with psychedelia and the swinging 60’s, but it is actually a new-ish eating place in Southgate that has an entirely vegan menu. While I am not vegan myself, or even vegetarian, some of the family are and they have been raving about this place […]
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It isn’t even a real word
July 12th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Life
In these austere times I’m sure we all find ourselves leaning away from brands a little bit and towards supermarket own label foods. One thing I’m eating at the moment is ASDA ‘Wheat Bisks’ but seeing the box something struck me: the name doesn’t actually mean anything officially. Look up ‘bisk’ inthe dictionary and all […]
Reasons to be cheerful
February 13th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Life
These are indeed miserable times: redundancies, below-inflation pay rises for yet another year for most of those in work, services deteriorating everywhere, NHS being dismantled, education system being turned into Gove’s own personal brainwashing operation, atrocities in Syria, and everything else. Sometimes it is hard to find anything to be cheerful about, apart from the […]
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The Sprouts of Wrath
December 14th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Life
It was xmas lunch day in the canteen at work today. As usual the staff there put a lot of work into the preparation, presentation and cooking, and while our canteen is never going to get any Michelin stars it was a good mealespecially for only a few quid. And yet I was a little […]
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A cat food question
July 20th, 2011 · Comments Off on A cat food question · Life
I was feeding the cats this evening when something occurred to me. This is not an attempt at Michael McIntyre-style observational comedy, but a genuine question. Cat food comes in various flavours: beef, duck, lamb, turkey, salmon, chicken, tuna. None of this is part of a cat’s natural diet and the obvious question is why […]
Heinz outsauced
May 26th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Life
The latest bit of churnalism in the Guardian is about Heinz coming almost last in a blind taste test of tomato ketchups. Interesting because it undermines two brands simultaneously: Heinz and Malcolm Gladwell.