I was going to do a rant on how official advice on food, diet & nutrition is couched these days in boring numbers, counting rules, league tables of healthiness
Food is meant to be delicious, a pleasure, something to be shared
To evoke memories of childhood
To vary with the seasons
To act as a kind of social glue
Then I realized how difficult it is to have a public discussion of food in these terms
It goes way beyond mere political correctness. One treads a minefield. Risks involvement in all kinds of cultural, moral, political stand-offs
Religious sensitivities – some as unexpected as alcohol in crisps
All sorts of new, liberal secular moralities. Animal cruelty, food miles, fair trade
Even the re-emergence of the class war
What is Tescos for?
To keep the hoi polloi out of Waitrose
