I wonder if he's any good at cricket.

"Hugh Christopher Edmund Fearnley-Whittingstall".

I have, for a long time now, sarcastically, wondered if folk with 3 initials are good at Cricket.
It all started with A.P.E.Knott. There have been quite a few others I can't, offhand call to mind.

However - Hugh Double-Barrel has a series on currently "War on Waste" The most recent was on about Cosmetic vegetables.
In it he told us that many Supermarkets set ridiculous standards for their Veggies. An example he gave was 20 tons/tonnes (He didn't tell us) per week of Parsnips a farmer had to dump because they were:-
Too Short or too long or too fat or too thin or slightly curved or an inch broken off the end you wouldn't use anyway.
I had a glance at this lot and reckoned "yer average" supermarket might have refused some, looked O.K. to me.
Example:-
"In total, she is forced to throw away 30-40% of her parsnip crop for being ‘imperfect’ — not bruised or deformed, but not fitting the ‘cosmetic standards’ of the supermarkets — sometimes by only a few millimetres. That amounts to 40 tonnes of vegetables each week: enough to ......"

I was amused by the sign as we entered (See extra) but couldn't resist a poke at rampant lunacy. Another of his findings was that people will chuck out bacon if it's been open 2 days irrespective of use by date. One even discarded things a couple of days before Sell-by.


"Food waste costs the average UK household £480 per year."

There's a mad bugger somewhere throwing away £960, coz as sure as The Lord made little Taties they're throwing away OUR share as well.