A Marks & Spencer Cheese and Pickle Gluten Free Sandwich
On my way to Brighton today, I bought one of these sandwiches.
A Marks & Spencer Cheese and Pickle Gluten Free Sandwich
It wasn’t too bad, although the packaging wasn’t designed for people with a gammy left hand.
As you can see, I made a bit of a mess.
The egg salad sandwiches are much better, but all you seem to be ab;le to get is the cheese and pickle these days.
Are Lager Sales Going Down the Toilet?
I’ve never had a drink of lager in a British pub, as I’ve always drunk real beer.
Even now, I prefer one of St. Peter’s brewery’s real gluten-free beers.
But it would appear that according to this article, I am now becoming more typical as lager sales are falling.
Where’s the Gluten-Free Food at Eastfield?
I went to John Lewis today at Eastfield, to see if I could get some blinds. They were very helpful and I now have a good base price.
What I also wanted was a good late lunch to set me up for the weekend.
But could I find any gluten-free food? No! But then I didn’t check out all the restaurants. Surprisingly, I didn’t find a decent Indian restaurant, especially when you consider that a good proportion of the clients are of South Asian descent.
So in the end, I took the DLR to Carluccio’s at Canary Wharf and had an excellent meal there.
An Ideal Builder’s Mug
According to BBC Radio 5 tonight, some people have a special mug for builders to go with the builders’ tea. Someone e-mailed in to say they have an HMRC mug for builders.
How appropriate!
Food Labelling
They are talking about healthy eating and food labelling on BBC Breakfast this morning.
For many though, it doesn’t matter what you put on tins and packets, as it seems lot of people just eat take-aways like kebabs, burgers and enormous American sandwiches. Are they labelled?
Alistair Campbell on Alcoholism
Alistair Campbell has written a Panorama program on alcoholism, which is shown tonight.
As he was responsible for framing a lot of Nulabor policy, is there any connection to the financial mess that the Blair and Brown governments left us is.
Just looking at various cabinet ministers of the last fifty years or so, you can tell that some don’t have the healthiest of lifestyles.
Why Does Anybody Buy a Gas Cooker?
This house came with a complete set of appliances. Most have suffered at the hands of ten years of tenants, who looked after them as if they were their own and not the care you would if they were someone else’s.
The cooker didn’t suffer too much at the hands of the tenants, but judging by the fact that the microwave was in the garage and rather burnt, I would think the reason the cooker was OK wasn’t misuse, but no use!
But that doesn’t alter the fact that cooking anything as simple as bacon and eggs is very very difficult. Or it could be that I’ve cooked on a variety of AGAs for forty years and before that it was a sophisticated all-electric hob and oven!
So the next time a modern day Steptoe passes my door he gets it. And probably a double hernia as well, as it was obviously built by a company that knew weight could settle all problems. But not everywhere of course!
The cooker isn’t totally useless in that it can cook things that just need the electric oven or just one pot on a gas. so I can cook my fish pies or Moroccan Chicken Casseroles.
It’s just simple things like meat and two veg and of course bacon and eggs, that are difficult.
At least in the 1950s, you could always use them to kill the lamb before you ate it! Even that function has been removed on safety grounds.
Is This Optimism?
I took this picture on a very cold day outside Carluccio’s in Islington.
Outside Tables in the Cold
Is it the height of optimism to expect people to sit outside?
A Doggy-Bag Story
We had dined in one of Mumbai’s finest restaurants and they didn’t stint on the portions.
And we failed to eat it all!
So they gave us a large doggy bag and told us to give it to one of the beggars outside. We tried to refuse the bag, but they insisted.
In some ways it’s sad that mothers have to beg for their food in one of India’s richest cities, but they have put a system together to help.
US’s Legacy To German Pharmacist
Obviously, it a day for German stories, this one was on the BBC.
But at least it proves there’s nothing wrong with American lard, no matter how old it is.
The Anonymous Widower 