I quite like the idea of pointing to someone else’s table and saying “I’ll have what they’re having” and then being brought the same dish. And I mean exactly the same dish:

US farmers have been given the green light to produce cloned meat for the human food chain. In a 968-page report billed as a “final risk assessment” of the technology, the US Food and Drug Administration has concluded that healthy cloned animals and products from them such as milk are safe for consumers.

Ah, you know where you are after your grub has been given a final risk assessment. But what a future we’re creating for ourselves… imagine herds of sheep and cows that all look the same.

Something else that tends to look the same is the muck they drop on your plates at airports, but all that’s set to change now that celebrity chefs have got involved. Jamie tackled school dinners, but Gordon is looking to upgrade our Heathrow slop to first class:

A panoply of high-end shops and restaurants, including a branch of Harrods and Gordon Ramsay’s first airport restaurant, will greet passengers when Heathrow’s multibillion-pound Terminal 5 opens in March.

We only just defended bad names, but Plane Food? Really? Such a shame he can’t use some of his trademark foul language in the branding…

Photo credit: sheepish closeup by TheAlieness GiselaGiardino²³ (CC licence)