Anyone in the food or restaurant business will tell you what a pain health and safety rules can be. So let’s rely instead on a bit of common sense. Just because something’s been kicking around in the fridge for a while or has passed its use by, doesn’t always mean it’s off, does it? All that scrubbing down isn’t necessary every day, surely? If you’re served something which looks or smells dodgy, take some personal responsibility and don’t eat it! OK, some people may end up in hospital or even die. But the economy will thrive and survivors will end up with stronger stomachs, better able to cope with travel to far off places. Worth a punt, Boris?
“Why people over the age of 55 are the new problem generation”
I suspect that many a ‘boomer’ might be pleased with the ‘problem generation’ label. When they were teen- or twenty-somethings, their parents’ generation may well have either despaired of them or worried about the world into which they were emerging as adults; it will ever be thus.