Category Archives: Food/Drink
Not such great expectations
Although it won’t be obvious to you, dear reader, the last two blog entries are related in a way. To clarify, here’s a brief anecdote from our walking trip in Kent a couple of weeks ago… The B&B where we … Continue reading
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The attitude to food crime
Saturday’s Guardian carried a story about the “food detectives” employed by the Food Standards Agency to fight the illegal meat trade. Given the paltry £200,000 of FSA money allotted annually for this campaign, it’s no surprise that criminal gangs are … Continue reading
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This little piggy went to business school…
And that’s not all. Being a meat-eater myself, I might not have come across Vegan Porn if it weren’t for the link in MemeMachineGo!, one of my regular reads. But I did. And there I learned about marketing pork to … Continue reading
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Cool to be a beefy lass
Randomly following links, lily-padding from blog to blog (like a blogfrog, naturally), I came across Cool 2B Real. The cutesy graphics and predominance of pastel colours looked like a typical young girls magazine, but the rather saccharine text (“… strive … Continue reading
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The world’s weekly trip to Sainsbury’s
Last week the Guardian ran an article in its Weekend magazine about the weekly food consumption of families in different parts of the world. For each of the families featured (in Mongolia, Mali, Turkey, USA, Japan, Bhutan, Cuba and Bosnia) … Continue reading
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