Consumers of potato chips were required to taste chips whose flavour and appearance were obviously different.
Four things that don't deep fry Believe it or not, there are some things whose flavour isn't improved by being dunked in boiling oil.
By far the most popular canned fish flesh in this country is tuna, of course, though for me it is a fish whose flavour and texture can often be disappointing and whose provenance is riddled with alarming environmental worries.
La Grotta Ices – whose flavours currently include peach leaf with raspberry ripple and mulberry granita –is typically made from organic milk, free-range eggs and up to 50% fresh whole fruit, plus a dash of cream.
Funnily enough, the only dish whose flavour was a little muted was the lamb – round these parts it is as good as any in the world, so that was unexpected.
This little restaurant is an absolute delight and consistently delivers well-measured portions of Japanese dishes (from £6.90) using locally sourced seasonal ingredients, whose flavours are both clean and satisfying.
Flicking through a plethora of Thanksgiving-themed cookery magazines from the United States, however, I discover a young pretender to the pumpkin's crown – "the shapely butternut squash" as Jill Dupleix terms it, whose flavour and texture are frequently deemed superior to those of its more bulbous cousin.
If I set out to make a list of the best, most memorable wines of my life – wines whose flavours and textures I can still remember years after drinking them – there would be several closely typed pages of reds, whites, even orange wines, before I reached a pink.
Mindhorn is built on a teetering tower of self-aware showbiz failure whose flavour will be familiar to any connoisseur of British TV comedy from the past 10 or 15 years; it is a little bit derivative – and, inevitably, the comedy is mostly frontloaded into its premise and opening act.
Liverpool Craft Beer Co's White Fox, tasting so sweet after that relative hop bomb, is another innovation (a wheat beer bitterly and tropically loaded with US hops), whose flavour dimensions are so layered and well-balanced, that it is one of my favourite new wave beers.
