fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago30 for a ready meal?!' Do Charlie Bigham's new dishes really beat going to a restaurant?
On the one hand, people clearly love them: about 31m dishes were sold in the past year alone. On the other hand, they generate a heap of mockery. The critique seems to be that only a gullible idiot would shell out up to a tenner on an oven-ready fish pie, chilli con carne or as one commentator once memorably labelled it a tray of Tory slop.
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