Bad food is pretty easy to come by these days – on every second corner there’s a fast food chain or a Kebab shop selling something the colour and\/or texture of which can’t be found in nature. It’s pervasive, but it’s mediocre. And mediocrity is boring, people. <\/p>\n
What I find really impressive is food that is superlatively bad in some way – flagrantly stinky with no attendant taste, for instance. Or, more to the point, today’s lunch. <\/p>\n
Purchased at the office canteen (yes, yes, I should<\/em> know better, but obviously I don’t), it consisted of a few industrial spoonfuls of macaroni and cheese, and a handful of sad-looking leaves of red lettuce. The lettuce was fine – inoffensive and still somewhat crisp, if unnervingly warm. It’s the macaroni that I wish to discuss. It looked tasty and comforting – with nice brown bubbly cheese melted on the top and appealing looking specs of what appeared to be some sort of seasoning. And based on the texture, it contains a truly dangerous amount of cheese and possibly cream – I can actually feel my arteries hardening while I eat it. And yet it has no flavour at all<\/em>. None. It’s not that it’s underseasoned, or too sweet or needs a pinch of salt. It’s that it tastes of exactly nothing. It tastes like it’s got texture and that’s about it. Which I find remarkable – commendable even. Heart attack on a plate, but stealthily.<\/p>\n That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bad food is pretty easy to come by these days – on every second corner there’s a fast food chain…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}