In Competition No. 3340 you were asked to submit a poem calling for a particular food to be banned.
It was Julie Bindel’s impassioned anti-balsamic vinegar piece that prompted me to invite you to share your culinary bêtes-noires (three of mine – Battenberg, tripe and Liquorice Allsorts – cropped up in the entry).

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