It wasn't Glasto's toilets that shocked me for once (hurrah for hospitality tickets). It was the food - and the people serving it.
Unfortunately, I failed to notice until I'd half scoffed it that the baked Camembert was a week out of date. A one off, I thought. Yet when I checked the others, they were the same and the manager just shrugged when I pointed it out.
Unsettled, I started scrutinising things more closely and noticed a woman with what appeared to be a nasty cold sore on her face - which instantly brought to mind 'food guru' Gregg Wallace. I can't remember which series of Masterchef it was, but he too sported what looked like a cold sore and it quite put me off. Food and cold sores don't go together.
Neither do Wallace and documentaries on the evidence of Recession Bites (10pm, BBC2, 30 June). Adopting a Ross Kemp-lite persona, the pug-faced one barked his way inanely through this 'investigation' into the impact of the recession on our eating habits.
Apparently people are being more thrifty and ditching pricy organic for budget ranges. Who knew? And the revelations kept coming. Wallace challenged 'average' mum Nina to switch her usual weekly shop for a Tesco Value shop and - wait for it - though it was cheaper, it didn't taste great (indeed, she threw out the mince, though that possibly said more about her cooking than the meat). After the SWOT analysis of Tesco's budget range, we were inexplicably treated to a soundbite from Justin King. Then Nina was sent off to do her shop locally, which guess what, she didn't find as convenient as shopping online. The only surprise was when she did her entire shop at Iceland and gave it a big thumbs up (sorry Malcolm).
This was a wasted opportunity. As well as King and Walker, the programme featured a number of industry heavyweights, but their contributions were reduced to meaningless soundbites.
And don't get me started on the experts who were presumably wheeled out just in case we doubted Wallace's credibility. My favourite was the brilliantly named Marcel Knobil. But while he talked like one, he wasn't the biggest - that honour was all Wallace's.
Unfortunately, I failed to notice until I'd half scoffed it that the baked Camembert was a week out of date. A one off, I thought. Yet when I checked the others, they were the same and the manager just shrugged when I pointed it out.
Unsettled, I started scrutinising things more closely and noticed a woman with what appeared to be a nasty cold sore on her face - which instantly brought to mind 'food guru' Gregg Wallace. I can't remember which series of Masterchef it was, but he too sported what looked like a cold sore and it quite put me off. Food and cold sores don't go together.
Neither do Wallace and documentaries on the evidence of Recession Bites (10pm, BBC2, 30 June). Adopting a Ross Kemp-lite persona, the pug-faced one barked his way inanely through this 'investigation' into the impact of the recession on our eating habits.
Apparently people are being more thrifty and ditching pricy organic for budget ranges. Who knew? And the revelations kept coming. Wallace challenged 'average' mum Nina to switch her usual weekly shop for a Tesco Value shop and - wait for it - though it was cheaper, it didn't taste great (indeed, she threw out the mince, though that possibly said more about her cooking than the meat). After the SWOT analysis of Tesco's budget range, we were inexplicably treated to a soundbite from Justin King. Then Nina was sent off to do her shop locally, which guess what, she didn't find as convenient as shopping online. The only surprise was when she did her entire shop at Iceland and gave it a big thumbs up (sorry Malcolm).
This was a wasted opportunity. As well as King and Walker, the programme featured a number of industry heavyweights, but their contributions were reduced to meaningless soundbites.
And don't get me started on the experts who were presumably wheeled out just in case we doubted Wallace's credibility. My favourite was the brilliantly named Marcel Knobil. But while he talked like one, he wasn't the biggest - that honour was all Wallace's.
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