AlitaliaMore pathetic airline food last week. I was starving but so rushed to catch my flight I didn't have a chance to eat properly so I had to suffer through this horrid little thing they call a sandwich. I thought the Italians could do better but am not surprised as Alitalia has been having a lot of trouble lately. So after a disgusting walk through Milan's Linate airport which should be burned to the ground as it is so grey and depresssing, they serve this fake toasted panini which has bresaola inside a sliver of butter and a sliver of ricotta inside it. Not even spread evenly, just in these two hard lumpy lines. It was gross but I had no alternative so ate it. The other options were biscuits but not sure what those would've been like.

Lucky me, I sat beside a troll who snarled at me behind her bifocals. Why can I not sit beside a socialble and mildly attractive person who doesn't get the pillow stuck in their arse crack due to their fatness? This happend on my last flight to Toronto! This pre-Christmas troll had scary facial hair, a big gut and clothes that were too snug and too short which meant that the blub was hanging out! I know I am going to rot in hell but people, when you are that fat a little extra material goes a LONG way! You are not a size 8 anymore.

And if you are so fat that you don't notice a pillow stuck between your ass crack then you need to cut down on something. Maybe start with that bag of candy she scoffed on the flight - pre her two glasses of wine and Coke and her meal. Seriously I wanted to crawl into the barf bag!

Can someone from BA read this and put me in a seat at Easter next to a normal person? I should be flying privately, non?

No more politically correct

David Cameron declared yesterday that some people who are poor, fat or addicted to alcohol or drugs have only themselves to blame. Read more.

He says we should stop being politically correct with these people and I agree - I am always disgusted at parents giving their kids lots of sweets and feeding them terrible food and watching them grow bigger and bigger without realizing how terrible this is to their health and future. I am also tired of people who are fat saying they can't help it - they can! Proper eating and exercise is the cure, not looking to the state for handouts and sympathy.

BREAKING NEWS FROM THE BBC TODAY!
(Is this the nanny state or something we should say finally!! to?)

-maybe I should apply to be one of the 800 cookery teachers ;)

(story from bbc.co.uk)
Cookery classes to be compulsory

Some children are said to have trouble identifying vegetables Children cooking

Cookery lessons are to be compulsory in England's secondary schools for children aged 11 to 14.

Pupils will learn to cook for an hour a week for one term. Poorer pupils' ingredients will be subsidised.

Cookery is a ministerial "expectation" but, as an optional part of the design and technology curriculum, is not currently taught in all schools.

The move is part of the strategy to tackle obesity, as experts believe 1m children will be obese in a decade.

The Department for Children, Schools and Families says that about 85% of secondary schools do offer cookery in some form.

It wants those schools to make the change immediately, and the rest by 2011.

I think it is important to act now and maybe we should have acted earlier Ed Balls MP Schools Secretary Chefs in the making?

The aim is to train higher level teaching assistants to do some of the teaching and to recruit more food technology teachers.

Schools Secretary Ed Balls wants to see 800 cookery teachers trained.

Speaking on BBC One's Breakfast programme, Mr Balls said the plan was tied in with the government's strategy to tackle obesity and improve people's health.

"I think it is important to act now and maybe we should have acted earlier," he said.

"It's not going to be just the technology of food, it will be how you can use simple ingredients, simple recipes, so that children and young people can be prepared for adult life."

He is promising to give schools £2.5m a year to help children from poor homes to pay for ingredients.

But critics have expressed concern about the practicalities of the idea.

Clarissa Williams of the National Association of Head Teachers said the training of food technology teachers had been neglected for so long it would be difficult to see the strategy through.

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This is an excellent idea! Most people don't have any idea how to cook even basic meals.

Chris, Salford, UK

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Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme Ms Williams said she was concerned about how schools would get all the resources needed.

"Cookers, microwaves, all of the utensils, all of that costs a lot of money. There's also the expectation that the children will bring the ingredients and for some ... that could be difficult."

The subject has suffered in recent years, according to the inspectorate, Ofsted, which traced the problem back to the introduction of the national curriculum in 1992.

This put food in with design and technology - alongside resistant materials, systems and textiles.

Shortage of teachers

Ofsted said pupils were often taught "trivia" such as "arranging toppings decoratively on a pizza" or using complex engineering computer-aided design software to produce simple drawings of icing on cakes.

Schools have been built or refurbished without practical cookery rooms John Dunford Association of School and College Leaders Heads cool on cooking lessons

Timetabling was made awkward by larger class sizes and a shortage of specialist teachers.

The "unique" way the subject was funded - with parents supplying or paying for ingredients - was also a fundamental problem, the inspectors said.

But officials at the schools department say it is a myth that there was once a "golden age" when everyone learnt to cook at school. This was never the case, they say.

The government is inviting people to send suggested recipes to: getcooking.consultation@dcsf.gsi.gov.uk