Food Man Chews!

Utabe is a cheese-loving, German-born supporter of any football team “that never plays”. She is our eleventh member, signing up for TSP in April last year. Since then she has averaged more than three posts a day, each of them either helpful, amusing, surreal or a combination of all three. She's active in the walking and photography groups and we're proud to make her the subject of our second chat.


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A visit to the Amerikan Hastanesi yesterday turned out to be much, much more than I bargained for. I had taken my wife to register her for our imminent arrival and have a chat with the anaesthetist about the range of drugs available for childbirth. This went pretty smoothly and we had a tour of the facilities and were impressed with what was on offer. I was also impressed that the patient relations officer had been of some assistance to Dick Cheney in March of last year. I know this because she ...

Do people with special dietary requirements get on your nerves, especially when you are catering for them? Does there appear to be no logic to what they profess? More importantly, how can your average omnivore fight back? Please don’t get me wrong, as I am certainly not condemning people who abstain from animal flesh on religious grounds either. That’s their choice and is one hot-potato I definitely don’t want to touch, thank you. But, what I am talking about is this modern myriad of irritating ...

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I’m just manoeuvring my reluctant trolley up to the desk when a female member of the airline staff comes strolling up to the front of the queue with three Filipino guys in tow. At this juncture, I lose the plot and defiantly shout at her that I hope they are not trying to jump the queue and that I’ve been waiting bloody ages. “Are they VIP’s or something?...” I add, whilst pointing out the first-class check-in desk to them “…Because if they are, they are in the wrong bloody ...

I deplore airports, all of them, some more than others, but I honestly and absolutely hate airports. It’s just so irritating and demeaning the way you are ill-treated by all the officials and cut-up by fellow travellers. From the minute you get out of the car at your departure airport, to the moment you get in the taxi at your arrival airport, you have suffered major abuse and humiliation and paid for the privilege. That’s right! We are the fully paying customers who receive this treatment with ...