Taste The Exotic

It never fails to amuse me, never fails, to find flowery descriptions of the way food is prepared to somehow make you feel that it is worth paying a little bit extra for. Phrases like handcut is a particular favourite for crisps or chips.

My favourite though is from the Pizza Express menu. You can't add chicken to your pizza at Pizza Express. No, at Pizza Express you get torn chicken. Ooh, sounds exotic, I'd like to pay an extra 50p for that.

Actually, what Pizza Express are telling you is that instead of using a knife the chef is just going to tear a bit of chicken up with his bare hands. Well, I hope he's washed the piss off them first.