You Are Awful (But I Like You): Travels Through Unloved Britain

by Tim Moore

Scotland appears to have carried through a major devaluation of profanity’s dominant currency, the Fuck.

I plumped for a ‘pizza supper’. The last word added a veneer of nutritional respectability to my order, suggesting a balanced meal with representation from across the food groups. But in Scotland it simply means ‘and chips’.

Chinese Lemon Chicken has been described in print as ‘the most offensive gastronomic insult to any indigenous culinary tradition’,