Most foodstuffs are derived from natural flavours, or in the case of strawberry sweets aspire to natural flavours. Even items which are glaringly artificial, like bright blue Powerade or Mountain Dew still try to suggest that their flavours are at le[…]

Casual Free Zone
Pubs in Leicester ban burberry and other (with apologies) chav brands. i had forgotten until a couple of weeks ago on a stag weekend that some bars/pubs still have “no trainers” policies (the lads i was with were otherwi[…]

The great UCI sandwich wars of 2004 — well, said wars aren’t going to erupt fully for another month or so, probably more. But they are incipient, as there are now three different places within walking distance from my office space that w[…]

y’k vagonu tekerlek
The above phrase is a (probably syntactically inaccurate) translation of ‘WagonWheel’ into Turkish. Which is what the Halley Pasta is, pretty much. Produced by snack manufacturing giants ‘lker, it’s[…]

I had a good day in Glasgow a couple of weeks ago. Some pleasant beers, excellent company and an interesting new city for me to explore. Oddly I probably had the classiest drink I have had this year in the Vodka bar there, which reminded me I should […]

The logic of Boots Meal Deal
The Meal Deal costs ‘2.49. You get a sandwich, a drink and a snack. You would expect naturally that you would be saving money with this combined purchase. Nevertheless with some of the sandwiches in the deal costing[…]

Expensive, French and in a mall — there’s this place called Troquet located on the fourth floor of South Coast Plaza (and yeah, we all look like the model guy pictured there, of course), which I’d been wanting to try for some time. […]

Finally, we got to visit what had come to be something of a holy grail for us in culinary terms…….
Vicky’s birthday seemed the ideal time to visit …..St John, Fergus Henderson’s house of great repute. There’s nothi[…]

I missed the Great British Beer Festival this year. I was not the only one. During my stay in Dumfries and Galloway we stumbled across the Sulwath Brewery in Castle Douglas. They had not been invited. Obviously Olympia is limited in space, neverthele[…]

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Do these Pret A Manger smoothies come with warnings on?

Freakytrigger reader Stuart McSkimming sent in this example which went, like a hand-grenade, after just three hours. Goodness me, I feel a consumer campaig[…]