Food and water (From The Northern Echo)

Food and water

6:13pm Friday 20th March 2009 in Staff Blogs By Joe Willis, Regional chief reporter

I hope the recession does for bottled water. There's nothing that makes me fear for the future of the human race more than people paying a whole English pound for half a litre of council pop, as my dad used to call it in the 80s when bottled was just a gleam in a marketing man's greedy little eye. Damn it that's more expensive than beer. "But sipping endlessly on a bottle of water with a top that resembles a nipple keeps me hydrated and helps me concentrate", I hear you think. Of course it does. Before bottled water, office workers were often found in a big dried up heap under their desks.

And another thing, pubs selling home-made food. If I wanted home-made food I would stay at home and cook myself. If I go out to eat, I want food made by someone who is paid to cook and I want it made in a proper kitchen with a walk in fridge and a blue neon thing that zaps flies.