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Saturday 17 May 2008

The Spectator's Notes

Charles Moore's reflections on the week

Returning from school, our son offers an important and, so far as I know, new theory, developed by him and his friends. He says that the taste buds in the roof of the mouth are duller than those on the tongue. Therefore food on bread, tarts, cheese-biscuits etc., is always eaten the wrong way up. I have conducted a series of experiments — with toast and marmalade, with hummus and oatcake and even with yesterday’s parsnips and oatcake — and find that the theory is true. The relatively boring bread/toast/biscuit should stick to the top of the mouth, allowing the rest to give greater pleasure below. The problem, of course, is that most food thus inserted into the mouth upside down falls off before reaching its destination. Our son’s only answer to this is to make the toast perform an elegant somersault, rather like flipping a pancake, just before it passes the lips. But if his rule — which I have christened the Upper Crust Theory — takes root among chefs, I am sure a more technological solution can be found.

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