Dinner

[sospan_fach]

On the side of my dinner tonight (on the box it came in, rather), at the beginning of the little paragraph about Refunds If You Are Not Satisfied and Your Rights As A Customer, was:



It's great that you've chosen this Toad in the Hole...

Emphasis mine.

Whut?

It is not remotely great that I have "chosen this Toad in the Hole" (and for the sake of fluffy ferrets, I hardly hand-selected that particular one lovingly out of all the inferior ones nestled in the Iceland freezer cabinet). It is lazy that I have chosen this Toad in the Hole. It is cheap. It is displaying a quite disturbing insouciance towards the nutritional value of my daily food intake and, by extension, my overall health, if you want to push it, because Lord knows, I'm not exactly expecting a gorgeously balanced and delicious meal out of a suspiciously greyish-coloured slab of frozen food that cost me all of a quid!

Great. Pffft.

Ahem.

I'm not entirely certain why that got to me so much. How ridiculous. But I found being confronted by such alarmingly jocular and buoyant enthusiasm to be fairly out of left field, yes.

It wasn't a bad dinner, actually. ;)

[And no, I am not procrastinating whilst hacking through typing up the Black Peter discussion, at all; why do you ask? ;) ]

Comments

[kathie-d.livejournal.com]

Dude, that was an emergency. Packets were allowed!

That 200 mile walk I did? We cooked real food every night. :P

[sospan-fach.livejournal.com]

That's because you and B. are Ray Mears Types, and initiated into mysterious culinary arts I will never grasp if I try from now till Doomsday. :P

You know that kerfuffle a few years ago, when Delia Smith reissued all her Basic Cooking books, and critics claimed she was "patronising her audience" by including instructions on how to boil on egg? I felt like sending her a thank-you card because it meant I didn;t have to keep ringing my dad and asking him how long to leave it on the cooker for.

Speaking of which, vaguely appropriate icon as it sort of resembles an egg-timer. XD

[kathie-d.livejournal.com]

Haha, the only reason I can produce something vaugely resembling a meal is because in my house you either try or you starve. There is no instant food. >.>

I had that Delia book dammit, and I still do my eggs her way! I wasn't one of the ones saying it was patronising, trust me!