Unpasteurised milk. Jeez, what next? A smallpox revival? I don't drink milk unless it's been zapped, filtered, and irradiated into something that wouldn’t even recognise actual milk from a cow. I remember full fat milk as a child. It used to make me heave. The best thing Thatcher ever did was get rid of those little bottles of milk at our school, they'd sit there half the day, the cream steadily congealing into a trampoline of fat, and then we had to drink it, trying to recover some milk from the bottle through a process akin to fracking with a straw, desperate not to choke on a clot of lard from the top. I remember when David 'Donkey' Derbyshire went full on vomit after a bottle that had sat there sweltering for a good five hours of summer day whereupon he simultaneously ejaculated two jets of milk out of his nostrils, followed by his entire school dinner. At no point, did his mouth open, everything had to exit through the narrower streets of his nose. He started firing peas and carrots like a nasal Gatling gun before ending in a terminal snuffle of mashed potato and chewed up sausage that made it look like his brains were oozing out of his head (the only giveaway was that Donkey never had that much brains). You can't possibly know how traumatic that was to our young minds. I don't think our teacher ever returned to teaching.
France was a bit of a let down, all said, the big league surly waiters are evidently on their holidays. There was an burst of optimism on the first night when some foul gallic harridan desoléd us because we had sat in the ‘diners only’ section for our boisson before gesturing to a space that omitted spare seats and tables. I wouldn’t have minded but we were already surrounded by non-mange-ing boissonaires extraordinaires, or the fact that at nine euros for a puny europint, eating was probably cheaper. We just pulled a face and she went and hid in a cupboard. She might still be there.
Fab cheeseburger though. Note that London restaurants, a point means just that, not cooked in the heart of a star for an eternity.