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Competition

Food for thought

25 March 2023

9:00 AM

25 March 2023

9:00 AM

In Competition No. 3291, you were invited to provide a profile of a well-known person in which their qualities are compared to items of food or drink.

A commendation to Chris O’Carroll for his gastronomical portrait of Jeremy Clarkson – ‘…the scorching sarcasm he deploys in lieu of wit manages to combine the sadistic fire of Ghost Peppers, Carolina Reapers and the like with the sorry shapelessness of a bland swede mash or a gummy tangle of damp pasta…’ – and £25 to the winners.

Mr Lee Anderson is a giant cock-on-a-stick, Goose Fair’s abiding sweet treat, a sticky Nottinghamshire delicacy with...

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