The Random Blogger

These words were favourites of my house master, back in the days when I was at boarding school, whenever he spotted some unlucky pupil who wouldn’t eat part of his school meal.

Given the generally low standard of food – they could even mess up the simplest of meals – then these words were heard quite often, and they were, I have to confess, directed at me on more than one occasion too.

I always did resent this phrase, as it had struck me from an early age that there were some foods that I simply did not like for reasons I couldn’t explain.

I’ve often wondered, since then, why (more…)