| A bad cook is made not necessarily born. Bad food | | | | pepper sauce, ketchup - you name it, just so long as |
| and bad eating habits provide an honours course in | | | | the flavour of the food is quelled beyond recognition. |
| bad cooking. Some children will simply not let a | | | | This is of course a wonderful boon for bad |
| vegetable pass their lips. This ridiculous attitude usually | | | | restaurants. All they have to do is to put all the |
| persists throughout a grossly unhealthy life. | | | | flavour-killers in a basket on the table and the poor |
| There is absolutely no excuse for really bad cooking. | | | | diner does the rest. |
| If we could get the worst eaters and bad-habit | | | | Or the really bad cooks at dodgy eating spots get |
| perpetrators into a learning programme, they would | | | | away with it by killing their food with chilli, garlic, |
| soon see the folly of their ways. Whether that would | | | | gravy, wine sauce, whatever - just as long as one |
| change them is entirely up to their own conscience, | | | | distinct flavour dominates any attempt at delicacy. |
| however. | | | | Wash that pasta when you pour it from the cooking |
| I have found that single people who drop into the | | | | pot, overcook those peas, carrots and beans, use |
| pub for drinks after work become addicted to bad | | | | bad, cheap ingredients, burn that bacon in fat. Cook |
| food. After a few drinks they are no longer bothered | | | | the chicken to death. Incinerate - a scorched earth |
| by the bad quality of whatever they eat. So mush so | | | | policy is your key to success. And recycle leftovers - |
| that when you foolishly put a plate of well-prepared | | | | go on - you can become a dreadful cook. All it takes |
| food in front of them, they disregard it in favour of | | | | is dedication and a stubborn refusal to acknowledge |
| knocking back the drinks. | | | | any delicacy. Yup - bad cooking takes practice. |
| Bad eaters become addicted to condiments: Salt, hot | | | | |