The latest Real McCoy’s branding wheeze is “MAN CRISPS”. “McCoy’s are unashamedly for men.” says the brand director (who is A WOMAN), “We want to celebrate all that’s great about them, by giving them a […]

At the annual Tween’ Christmas And New Year Freaky Trigger Pub Crawl we always do a list. Such themed lists in the past have included the FT Top 100 Films Of All Time Ever 2003 and the FT Top 100 Songs. Many are started and not finished. But th[…]

Marks And Spencers new Steak and Blacksticks Blue sandwich – very rich, very flavoursome (and a lovely combination of tangy cheese, sweet onion relish and steak which manages to hold its own against both). Also very expensive – though it[…]

Link with clip of Martha Rosler’s Semiotics of the Kitchen (requires Quicktime) as mentioned on yesterday’s FTatLoP. Sadly, my own video of the merciless blunt object destruction of a load of digestives would not upload to YouTube last ni[…]

(or “heterogenous ideas yok’d by violence together” as dr sourpuss johnson had it)
item #1: GOURMET PRINGLES[…]

Guinness Red, in it’s unnatural environment, yesterday.
Your reporter’s verdict is v similar to existing feedback, tasteless and quite unexciting. Had to follow it up with several other pints of normal Guinness to shock tastebuds back int[…]

Guinness Red has finally arrived!! Despite claims on the website it wasn’t available in Great Queen Street O’Neills*, but we managed to trek the 400 yards round the corner to the Shaftesbury Avenue one where we saw the exciting new pump n[…]

The pie debate has been rumbling on FT since the dawn of time itself. For the uninitiated, the positions can broadly be termed the performativists and the formalists.
The latter attempt to draw a line that encompasses the common or garden pie in past[…]

As we all know the square root of sausage is square sauasge! But what I didn’t know until today that an alias of square sausage was “Lorne sausage”! It certainly doesn’t say that on the packaging of my square sausage – w[…]

Post Lollardry, the brief moment of inspiration re the anti-euphemism of Pigs In Blankets got some of our listeners texting in angrily. Namely that my pig in batter version was shot down in flames. So further scientific research happily proves that e[…]