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THE COMPENDIUM OF NOSH BY JACK McLEAN (JOHN MURRAY, pounds- 16.99)
FOR someone who has written a book in excess of 400 pages on the subject, there is a lot of nosh to which Jack McLean has taken a right scunner. Let's start with the letter "c" Corn-on-the-cob, opines McLean, is "perhaps the most irritating dish ever. There is no way of eating this without looking gross." He is similarly unimpressed by cous-cous ("quite awful"), crab ("very expensive and not worth the money"), crisps (part of the "perfect recipe for adolescent idiocy"), creme de menthe ("disgusting") and chewing gum ("beloved by louts and the mentally feeble. Footballers invariably enjoy it").See the full content of this document
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Jack's Food for Thought Not for All Tastes
With much of the above it is hard to disagree. As one wanders around a supermarket, through caverns measureless to man, one is constantly amazed by what one's fellow inhabitants of the planet are prepared to consume in order to keep bo...
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