Cuisine
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Konditorei Kormuth - Bratislava
"Before I even had a chance to register what on planet Earth was going on, we were explained that there was a €13 minimum spend per head as if it was a backstreet all-you-can-eat shitbox."
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Bisto - Curry Sauce Mix
"This Bisto curry sauce was like a corrupted memory of actual curry sauce"
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Riverford - Organic Mince Pies (Authentic Bread Company)
"I could feel my day slipping away from me like the £6.25 I had spent on this box of dropped-looking turds"
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Tesco's 6 Merry Mince Pies
"The filling felt like the taste equivalent of an asterix at the end of a word; easily unnoticed"
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Crackd - The No-Egg Egg
"Perfect for scrambled egg stock photography"
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Meatless Farm - Chickenless Roast
"It just tasted of, according to my notes at the time, 'eating the wrong air', which I can only unfold to be that it felt like something was really not right"
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Chado Tea Shop - Avo Toast & Istanbul No. 2 tea
"Looking like a small lost surfboard returning to shore along with the treasures and plantation of Atlantis placed atop"
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Arada Beyrut Cafe - Istanbul
"I had already lost my mind about the potential food combinations I could create. Cheese with honey? I am Greek royalty. Tomatoes dusted with exotic spices? I am a Mediterainnian millionaire. A doughnut with my coffee? I am an uncouth American. "
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Marmite Breakfast Biscuits
"I'd never thought 'this is what they probably smell when they push open a sarcophagus' prior to opening these"
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Pret - Pesto Salad
"Adding more grey to the flavour of grey"
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