Oh, The Good Old Days

I succumbed to the allure of free food. So sue me. It was the same deal as last year, pretty much, except the nibblies were even worse.

You know what angers me? Those little pie crust things you buy, and people put little fancy bits of stuff in them. Today it was a chunk of beetroot and some white stuff. And the other option was a dead tomato with a squirt of pesto (which my colleague noted looked like 'someone had squeezed a pigeon over it').

My issue, is that as soon as I taste that pie crust, I'm reminded of party pies. Delicious, cheap, unpretentious, mouth-burning party pies. But then you keep chewing and what do you get? Tinned beetroot. I object to this on moral grounds.

If you're going to get all la-de-da, change it completely so I don't get reminded of the far superior predecessor. It's like they've scraped out my party pie out of spite, and gone, 'now, lets track down the most rubbish alternate filling we can find, call it something French, and charge ten times as much.'

Come now.