- Carping about the way cabbage is cooked in Britain is like shooting a sitting bird with a gun that isn't licensed, on a Sunday out of season.
- More dehydrated, deep-frozen and pre-prepared foodstuffs, the end of the Chinese restaurant and the dawn of cous-cous parties.
- To adults the language of 'disco' participants is as esoteric as that of two scientists swapping gen on germ warfare.
- The enormous increase in Italian restaurants since the war has given pasta a head start, and although a considerable incursion has been brought about by the pizza, I do not think this will be permanently ensconced.
- When it comes to cooking, the best friends of a working woman with a family are a three-tiered steamer and a casserole.
- We approached our new microwave oven with the trepidation of two people returning to a reactor station after a leak.
- If people really want to be conned into paying out two and three hundred pounds for a restaurant dinner party, then prices will continue escalating until there is one monumental explosion.
- There's only one convenience in convenience food: profit for the manufacturers. It's a load of muck.
- Alas, the time has come for us to declare two meatless, main-course meals each week.
- The rule is that "You Shall Work and They Shall Play and Never the Twain Shall Meet."
- No tiddy puddings like trifles, jellies and awful ice-creams like guffy squodge.
- Conceal every fragile ornament you possess and throw every available cushion, pillow, or palliasse on the floors and staircase.
- Make no decisions about the choice of discotheques, let them make their own choice.
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