Instant pleasure-seekers Winter's a particular bad time for crimes against food. Some people don't want to brave the cold outside. Instead, they create something 'hearty' and 'warming' using nothing but a kettle or a microwave. They then refuse to allow windows to be opened to dispel the foul smell of plastic food because it's cold outside. If you thought the days of worrying about who to go to lunch with and where to sit ended at school, think again.
Canteens are a hive of petty politics and social humiliation.
You don't want to be seen sitting on your own. Or spilling minestrone over your boss. Or making a play for Janice from Accounts - and being publicly rejected. But we can't examine the subject of lunch without raising a glass of overpriced lambrusco to the people who have turned it into an art form - bosses. One of the perks of having risen to the top is taking three hours over port and pheasant and sticking it on expenses.