Having just come back from the States, what surprises me most is not that people are fat, it's that they're not all really, really fat.

The food is hilarious: everything's sweet, and salty, and gobble-able. Like a divorcee in an over-21's nightclub, you get what you see (and you see a lot) and it's immediately available, but it's a little too eager to please. America is better than Britain in most every category that matters, but it's been nice to come back to food which doesn't give itself up quite so readily: austere, craggy, British food.



Too much for my palatte. Do you have anything more tasteless?