A friend of mine once opined that there is no such thing as an average black pudding. True enough, once the blood and guts are poached, it’s a sublime and magnificent sausage that would take an act of rank foolishness or carelessness like overcooki[…]

Hold on. This is supposed to be an article advising us the best ways to get really drunk hidden in an article warning us about how not to get drunk. Surely giving up drinking for a month is all about no hangovers. And yes, in a lot of ways it is. How[…]

The Rules Of Ruin Is An Occasional Item To Help You Get Very, Very Drunk In The Guise Of A Warning About Things Which Will Get You Very Very Drunk
Everyone knows that mixing drinks will get you more drunk than staying on one brew. The same people als[…]

Now we all know the French are the epitomes of taste, subtle cuisine and dumping tequila flavourings in their kiddie beer for no reason. Well Desperados, previously the be-all and end-all of stupid beer ideas has a few new chums to be laughed at by m[…]

being round about hungry o’clock my ailing eyes&tummy alighted on just such a site.
yes, a stout-hearted legend drives around the City of Angels sniffing out tacos (photos too!).
absolutely brilliant.[…]

the peach!![…]

First there was the Kit-Kat (it killed babies but was damn tasty).
Then there came the Kit-Kat Chunky: like a Land Of The Giants version of one Kit-Kat finger. But it retaine dthe red branding and was, on the whole, decided to be the most sucessful b[…]

Hotels have bars. Right, that’s enough excuse for me to blog this here. I was on Oxford at the weekend, and managed to wander over to where the prison was in my day. It was still there and it still housed people. But these were paying customers[…]

In the alcopop boom, there was one brand which was the little engine that could. Vodka Kick, or VK, had one core selling point which marked it out from the other foul tasting liquids in the sector. It was considerably cheaper. Thus when the bottom fe[…]

Way back in the past, when Week Of Quiz was a mere twinkle in our eyes, the biggest excitement of the week could be the quiz at The Shepherd’s on the Archway Road. It was a nice pub, it was a good quiz, but it was of course enlivened by the pre[…]