The Yorkshire pudding has always been a cost control device, albeit a domestic one. You are supposed to serve a plate-sized one, with gravy, as a starter, and then people don't eat as much beef. I pr… (View Post)

You are right. I quite like the breakfasts, they are about average some cafes are worse, some better. You can't guarantee better without paying twice as much. I quite like the chicken wings or shawar… (View Post)

I think the big failure was the failure to create a sovereign wealth fund for the proceeds of North Sea oil, the proceeds from the sale of assets could have gone into that too. And while I agree with… (View Post)

Let it go bust. Buy it for a pound. Rinse the shareholders. Fire the directors for gross misconduct, without compensation. This is how capitalism is supposed to work. Profit is the reward for risk. (View Post)

Allegedly from Hamburg, presumably a sort of frikadelle which of course is Danish, but then so was Altona and the western part of what is now Hamburg (View Post)