slemslempike: (nemi: argh)
[personal profile] slemslempike
I wish that The Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes was actually about food in novels. Rachel Conroy would be the Chief Exec, having risen up through the organisation after piloting a revolutionary programme of comprehensive cataloguing and practical testing. The ACNFP in my head provides information on modern subsitutions for out-dated ingredients, runs workshops encouraging writers to develop characterisation through imagining the eating habits of their protagonists, and of course, is the organisation at the bottom of articles about the Famous Five wearily pointing out that lashings of ginger beer is not a phrase from the books. Their stalwart management board are resisting growing political pressure to take on a role in promoting healthy eating - one bright spark who suggested warning stickers on books such as "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" has found themself in the rationing and austerity division, heading up the Insects as Survival Nutrients team, in the hope that this will cure them of having counterproductive ideas.

Date: 2013-10-10 10:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] callmemadam.livejournal.com
You amuse me, too.

Date: 2013-10-10 10:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] slemslempike.livejournal.com
:) Thank you!

Date: 2013-10-10 03:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] katlinel.livejournal.com
I'm assuming that somewhere is a sub-committee concerned with the Rehabilitation of Turkish Delight In Fiction, in response to Sayers and Lewis.

Date: 2013-10-10 03:32 pm (UTC)

Date: 2013-12-01 06:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] miss-whiplash.livejournal.com
I like you!

Profile

slemslempike: (Default)
slemslempike

July 2023

S M T W T F S
      1
23456 78
9101112131415
16171819202122
23242526272829
3031     

Most Popular Tags

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Page generated May. 29th, 2025 07:23 am
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios