What's more, all day the office has been full of cakes and the smell of delicious pastries. In fact even now there's a pile of tasty-looking doughnuts stacked up in the kitchen.
Then, as if that weren't enough, I also had to look up a recipe, as I'm cooking for someone tomorrow. When fasting, more succulent ingredients are harder to imagine than a list of the things you throw into your basic slow cook chilli.
As part of the food quiz, I had to research how menus are put together. You would not believe the psychology that goes into it! I thought it was just the words that mattered but it's everything - word spacing, colour-balances of fonts, cases and justification of text - it's a proper science, and there are hundreds of papers devoted to the topic.
If ever I open a restaurant (and there are fewer less likely things I suppose) I will think about this in great detail.
I'd call it The Purple Piano or Tea & Symphony, or something like that.
Then I'd serve seventeen kinds of slow-cooker slop, including my specialties, Spicy Stew, Dollop o'Lasagne, and Chicken and Lemon Mulch... or the recent addition to my culinary repertoire, Bacon and Ham Sandwich with a Crescent of Crisps.
Don't ask; the meat needed eating.
Meanwhile, I'm trying not to think about food at all.
Mmm.... doughnuts.
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