I've been to the bakery today.
You see, my son quite likes on a Saturday morning to go to the bakery for some sort of biscuit - today it's a dinosaur biscuit - and while we're there, it seems churlish of me not to partake in something, after all I must have burned at least three calories walking there, and I wouldn't want to risk fainting with hunger on the way back. So, I decided that a sausage roll might be nice.
The trouble is, you can't just buy one sausage roll. Technically, yes, I suppose you could, but when the price for one sausage roll is in the region of £15,000 each, or four are on offer for just £1, you get four.
But what do you do with four?
They are provided hot, or at least warm, from being cooked this very morning. Over time they will become less pleasant as they cool. So it makes sense to eat them all up.
But is four sausage rolls excessive, as a mid-morning snack?
Well, yes, they are.
One is absolutely fine, and two is a good amount I would suggest which indicates that you are going to be involved in some form of physical labor (knocking down a wall, perhaps, or stopping a car rolling down a hill with nothing more than your burly muscles and iron will) and therefore in need of the energy provided by two sausage rolls, but more than two is excessive, however tasty and warm they are.
Don't get me wrong, they obviously have no calories because my wife isn't present to see me eating them. But the quantity is really just a bit too high for my conscience. If only they had been formed into a single really big sausage roll, then it would have been fine (or even chopped up into those mini bite-size sausage rolls you can get for buffets, you can eat an infinite amount of them)
Then I realise, wonder of wonders, that it is actually twelve o'clock - that means that they can be classed as lunch. And whilst four sausage rolls might be considered unusual for lunch, it's not absolutely ridiculous.
Except my son has now paused the consumption of his biscuit to have a go at the remaining sausage rolls.
I trained him well.
