Mark Wadsworth: Reader's Letter Of The Day

Wednesday, 2 April 2014

From The Metro:

The best way to get people to eat more fruit and vegetables would be to redefine toast as a fruit.

Andy, South Yorkshire.

A K Haart said...: So toast and marmalade becomes two fruits - I like it.; 2 April 2014 at 13:56
Derek said...: Why isn't this man Minister of Health?; 2 April 2014 at 15:34
Mark Wadsworth said...: AKH, you could go for raspberry and strawberry jam on toast, include the butter and that's four a day, two slices of that and you are ahead of the game.

D, because he has a sense of humour?; 2 April 2014 at 20:05
Bayard said...: Well, half a can of baked beans is already two of your five a day, so yer full English is three with the tomato, four if you have mushrooms and the full five with the reclassified toast.; 2 April 2014 at 20:19
Mark Wadsworth said...: B, nah, that's double counting the tomatoes (in baked bean sauce, presumably one of your two in the half-tin).

But if you have potato waffles, that's technically a vegetable, and a cup of coffee made from coffee beans, I think you can round that up to five.

Does butter count?; 2 April 2014 at 20:24
Bayard said...: Surely you can't double count. Wouldn't five portions of tomatoes fulfil the criteria, or indeed a tomato and a can of baked beans?

I don't think butter has any vitamin C in it?; 3 April 2014 at 08:16

Wednesday, 2 April 2014