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by 55 North
Let them EAT CAKE!
Julia Child, an American TV chef equivalent of Fanny Craddock, once said: “A party without cake is just a meeting.” Boris Johnson and all those involved in the lockdown parties rumpus probably agree.
However, it will doubtless be leaked that, while Britain was bunkering down, Downing Street staffers were filling up suitcases with Victoria sponges to keep “meetings” in full swing. And they probably got them from Tesco. It appears the canny supermarket giant is now selling cakes (a steal at only £7.50) specially designed for meetings (just in case you want to celebrate but government restrictions don’t permit you to throw a party).
Boris would do well to remember Marie “Let them eat cake” Antoinette.
She too was indifferent to the suffering of the masses and partied on regardless. Look where that got her.
The Week In Retail has launched a competition to celebrate partygate. To enter, guess how many Tesco Party Meeting Cakes would fit in a large suitcase.
Pop your answer on the back of a P45 and send to 10 Downing St, London. There are no winners. Except perhaps Rishi Sunak.
BURNS SCUPPERED
News has reached The Week In Retailthat “the UK’s poshest haggis” is tobe served at a Lake District hotel’sBurns Night celebration.
The Borrowdale Hotel nearKeswick is promising “a night toremember” by serving the traditionalScottish dish on a silver-plated carving trolley worth an estimated £25,000.
There’s a couple of things wrong here. First, a 25 grand carving trolley does not a posh haggis make. Katie Price turned up to her wedding in a horse-drawn glass carriage and nobody thought she was Cinderella. Except perhaps Peter
Andre, god love him. Now, we’re not comparing the former glamour model to some minced-up sheep lungs, but you can pick up a haggis for less than three quid.
Who knows, the Borrowdale might even be serving Grants Premium Haggis (£1.50) straight out of the tin. Delicious, but not posh.
Secondly, what about those white plastic castors? Even Katie Price wouldn’t give them house room.
