The View from the Hill on Friday 11th June

At what point does a pre-packed Waitrose sandwich become inedible?

I ask this question because Mrs B asked me to pick her up a mixed pepper and houmous sandwich yesterday, which I did (I had tuna and cucumber - 251 calories) but I was a little confused on the date front and have just realised that its display and use by date were yesterday!

So my question is based upon the need to identify at what point did the sandwich transfer from edible to inedible status? Was it at exactly midnight? Or do you think it might have had some weak lettuce or some anaemic peppers and so drifted into inedibility a little earlier? Perhaps the strength of the bread will allow the sandwich to cling on a little past the midnight deadline - perhaps the houmous is made from very resolute chick peas and bolstered by a little garlic they are able to save the sandwich and extend its life through until lunchtime today?

Anyway, I think it safer to simply get a pen and change the date so Mrs B doesn't realise what she's eating.

I hear on the news that football fans in Derby are going to march in protest on the city square this lunch time, they are protesting that the Council will not show the World Cup on the big screen tv they have there. I think the very fact that they will be protesting shows that the council is right! You don't want lots of unemployed drunken yobs cluttering the centre of Derby every day of the week - save the big screen for more gentile events like the ballet.

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"But hummus. When did that happen?...but there's a restaurant down the road that that's all they do. That is isn't a proper meal, that's a side-order innit? That's like having a restaurant just floggin' tomato ketchup."

Karl Pilkington