I Lost My Vegetarian Virtue to a Bacon Sandwich: One of My Fattiest Choices, It Turns Out | Bidisha Mamata

While teetotalism has replaced veganism as something people tell about themselves rather than something that has a personality, the harmful effects of processed meat remain a serious problem.

A recent study from the University of Cambridge has found that eating the equivalent of two slices of ham a day leads to an increased risk of diabetes.

Obviously, eating 730 slices of squeaky, soggy pink supermarket ham a year – 732 in a leap year – isn’t good for you or your reputation. Britain still has a monarchy, but no one wants to be the Diabetes Ham Queen.

I was a vegetarian for three years when I was a teenager, until my virtue was undone in the classic way: by a bacon sandwich. I was on a family vacation in the US and my aunt fried up crispy, sizzling bacon on the stove. She added thick-sliced ​​white bread, toasted it, and let it soak up the bacon gravy from the pan. She mixed it all together with a smattering of butter and mustard, and it melted together into a chewy, crunchy, hot, salty, oily, biting goodness. For the rest of the two weeks I ate a bacon sandwich every day and it was fantastic.

Yes, you should not eat processed meat. Just like smoking, drinking coke (I mean Coca-Cola of course), hard liquor cocktails, and cheap flings with toxic narcissists, just because something seems cool, looks great, and feels great every time, does not mean it is good for you.

Karma for Asda?

I don’t go to nightclubs, but I do go to Asda. The last time I went, the guy behind the counter said to me, “You only ever come here on a Saturday night and you always pick on me.” Well, that’s the end of it, unless I want to be chopped to pieces, featured on a crime podcast called Cleaner Call-Out: A Spill in Aisle 9 and eventually found in multiple bags at the online order collection point forever.

I’m not the only one looking away, as the chain’s shares fell more than 6% this summer. Is it failure, or is it karma?

Decades ago, the supermarket came to our region and completely drained the high street, leaving only the thrift shops, betting shops, chicken shops and nail salons.

With its freezing air conditioning, gummy sushi rice and impressive selection of giant bras, it has something for everyone. It’s a great place to watch people steal meat, or shuffle around in a nightgown and flip-flops, cursing out staff.

I once heard a local drug dealer shout at an Asda employee: “I make more money in a week than you make in your entire life.” Maybe he could give some money back to the company.

Critical mess

There has been a mega marketing disaster over a mega disaster movie as mega studio Lionsgate has been caught making up quotes (from real film critics) about director Francis Ford Coppola. His dystopian megaflop, Megalopolisa self-funded folly – sorry, unique vision – will be released in the US in late September.

To add another layer of mega meta fatigue, the fake quotes are all negative and in reference to Coppola’s previous films. With this misleading strategy, Lionsgate tried to imply that Coppola’s poorly reviewed earlier works were eventually recognized as masterpieces. Except the films were rightfully praised at the time.

What a brain teaser! Here is the truth, no joking necessary: ​​by all accounts, Megalopolis is bad. Mega bad.