Laudus Himself

In the sci-fi future when a pill gives you the feeling of a full, delicious meal, will there be a cheaper meal version or will all pills be equal? All meals are not equal, and with blissful ignorance I have swerved ordering food on short haul flights because I’m a food bigot. Nothing on the Ryanair menu is going to be any good, surely, just eat a disappointing Wetherspoons in the terminal and order Pringles and gin on the plane. That’s how travelling works. My girlfriend's niece, who is thirteen, loves a Ryanair lasagne, which I initially laughed at. Returning from Ireland, the Limerick airport breakfast was so horrid, dry and expensive I baulked. I'm not averse to a microwave meal, which is all I'm expecting from a pasta dish made in the sky. I needed some sauce. Did the phrase sky high prices come about because aeroplanes are expensive? You’re literally a captive audience and if you don’t cough up that cash who knows what the pilot will do! People went on a flight, had t...

A little bit of Hungarian food, drink and travel In Hungary I learned via television, which was all in foreign, that Hungary's favourite McDonald's special is the “Goosey Gustav”. Described by McDonald’s as “Beef patty, with goose liver slices fried on a contact grill, lamb's lettuce, sliced hot green pepper, grilled onions, slightly peppery sauce, in a shiny hamburger bun”, the idea of a foie gras burger had me staring at the TV advert I didn’t understand with dreams in my eyes. Who doesn’t want grilled goose liver on a burger, except for geese and cows. I’d say vegans but there aren’t any in Hungary, except maybe in a museum or zoo somewhere. A burger with grilled “foie gras” on top, in a brioche bun. Now if that sounds classy, it's because it is, but McDonald’s make it?! 24 hours into my stay in a country I immediately loved when I first came a few years ago, I had my Holy Grail. I had to try the limited edition Goosey Gustav. There for a week, my (Hungarian) girlfr...