Paul Johnson in the Spectator a few weeks ago wrote about the wonderful foods of his youth. A letter a week later felt he had missed one food in particular, the glorious chip butty - chips laid on two slices of well buttered bread.
Which took me back to an interview Cliff Michelmore conducted on his "Tonight" programme about forty years ago.
A food expert was saying how dangerous it was to eat potatoes (I lie not). When Cliff said "what about the famous chip butty?" the expert replied briefly with the words "Certain death".
Time passes. The potatoe evolves in the "expert" mind such that it becomes practically a necessity for it to be eaten for reasons of health.
Perhaps it's time for "health/food experts" to go the way of dinosaurs. Or maybe to be placed on two slices of well buttered bread and consumed.
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