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Well, I simply cannot understand why anyone would want to eat junk food in the

first place place said Sarah

spearing another sprig of rockets. Well I I nodded along with the rest of the

table but somehow I couldn't get an image of junk food out at my head. I mean even as the conversation turned to the

iniquities of the mansion tax I was beginning to construct my perfect junk meal.

It would I decided have to be fried, well fried, fried eggs, fried bacon, fried sausages, yes,

fried mushrooms, fried potatoes, fried fries, and great doorsteps of bread and butter, and huge

globs of brown sauce, and a giant mug of sweet builders tea.

Yes, indeed, not just a full English breakfast, but a calorific extravagance, a mortal

sin of consumption, if you like.

For give me, Father, for I have scoffed it must be my

readiness to imagine such gastronomic excesses which inhibits my willingness to

condemn the consumers of junk food.

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