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Carvery gluttons in pub horrified me ; "THERE is no love sincerer, than the love of food," wrote George Bernard Shaw. And he wasn't kidding.

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From: Express & Echo (Exeter UK)
Date: 20080723
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"THERE is no love sincerer, than the love of food," wrote George Bernard Shaw. And he wasn't kidding.

My girlfriend treated me to a Sunday roast at a popular food pub in East Devon and it became evident to me, that some people's interest in what they put in their stomachs seems excessive, to the point of pure madness.

In an age where obesity has become the new herpes, the ne plus ultra of social exclusion, is it any wonder, that the creed and zeal of the gourmet has vanquished protocol and etiquette from our dining tables?

In a demonstration of absolute gluttony and access to excess, I looked ...

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