Ha! All a bit North Norfolk Radio, possibly 😬
(And it was a grown up conversation about poppies. So thank you)

Thanks for coming on!

I watched it about a year ago with some of my kids. I was astonished at how it had not aged. It’s a remarkable film.

🍣 You can read all about these amazing, strange sushi facts and why UK supermarket sushi is booming here.
By me for D.Mail.
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In fact (after rice) the biggest ingredient isn’t even chicken – even though one of M&S’s most popular sushi lines is ‘Chicken Caesar dragon roll’.
Top ingredient at Ichiban? Peppers. Cheap and colourful.
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🍣 But here’s another fascinating fact about UK supermarket sushi. Hardly any of it is raw. Nearly all salmon is either cured or smoked.
Why? It’s complicated. But most Brits don’t like raw fish.
The biggest ingredient by weight is chicken, not salmon 🧵3/5

❄️🍣 All supermarket sushi salmon is frozen. Why?
A) food safety laws. Freezing kills pathogens
B) frozen fish is easier to cut.
Here’s the machine which ensures every salmon slice for nigiri is 7g 🧵2/5

Many thanks! I learnt long ago that vanity is the enemy to newspaper colour writing

They’re not banned in UK. But no supermarket uses them any more because they’re impossible to recycle

🍣 You can read all about these amazing, strange sushi facts and why UK supermarket sushi is booming here.
By me for D.Mail.
🧵/ends

www.dailymail.co.uk/lifestyle/fo...

🍣🫑 🥒 🐓
In fact (after rice) the biggest ingredient isn’t even chicken – even though one of M&S’s most popular sushi lines is ‘Chicken Caesar dragon roll’.
Top ingredient at Ichiban? Peppers. Cheap and colourful.
🧵4/5

🍣 But here’s another fascinating fact about UK supermarket sushi. Hardly any of it is raw. Nearly all salmon is either cured or smoked.
Why? It’s complicated. But most Brits don’t like raw fish.
The biggest ingredient by weight is chicken, not salmon 🧵3/5

❄️🍣 All supermarket sushi salmon is frozen. Why?
A) food safety laws. Freezing kills pathogens
B) frozen fish is easier to cut.
Here’s the machine which ensures every salmon slice for nigiri is 7g 🧵2/5

…but the Waitrose Angela Hartnett morbidi – soft almond pillows of joy – are addictively good.