August 8, 2008
It being August, and with our style of newspaper unlikely to join in the silly season's 12-month-old non-spottings of missing Maddy in Belgium (copyright: every national newspaper today), we came up with the idea for a reader's photographic competition.
And so it came to pass that a flood of images came rushing in, everything from kids on the beach, toothless grandads playing with spoons, dead jellyfish, grinning dogs and...
Well...
How to put this....?
Insane pictures from one guy and his food.
I refer the jury to item one, which is of a smiley face produced by the careful arrangement of four fishfingers, two hash browns, three fishcakes, and a mammoth amount of apparently very cheap tinned tomatoes - and an inexplicable arrangement of tinned fruit surrounded by vile looking custard above it. As well as the snapper, in the mirror:
Bad, I thought. Very bad.
But then it was followed by this, from the same bloke (and in fact was one of many, but this was the worst of a very bad lot):
Which, for those with bad eyesight - or indeed a perfectably understandable refusal to believe what they're seeing - is a tub of half-eaten but nevertheless clearly unwashed grapes, a glass of tomato juice, and then, as the main course, two apple and raisin strudels served cleverly on a bed of beef, mushrooms, onions and rice.
They're really out there, you know.
Be very afraid.
* The uber eagle eyed among you will notice a press cutting on the second picture, in the top right hand corner, that starts with the words: "I READ Justin Dunn..."
*shudders*
ajnspencer
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Darn it, more competition in my quest to be a photographer...