Well one of my more popular posts is a piece I did on Giles Coren, a food critic for the Times who also likes writing scathingly on the working class part-time in his articles.

You can imagine my surprise then when I opened an issue of The Sun and found his grinning mug, taking part in a taste tester on…tinned beans. In his original article I wrote about, he quotes a biologist lamenting fried breakfasts because they contain things like baked beans, so I was surprised to see Giles Coren now taking money to review them in the newspaper most widely read by the working classes.

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A rather charming piece of vitriol has been written by food critic Giles Coren, you may know him for creating programmes advocating taxing fat, in The Times.

The essence of the piece is how bad the Great British fry-up is (Yes, I thought I’d manipulate your emotions by putting in the words ‘Great British’ and imply that Coren is in fact anti-Our Great Country, the swine), but he fills it with some astonishing vitriol and stereotypes not worthy of the raggiest of student rags.

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