Some people prefer margarine and others prefer butter. I dislike margarine because its texture and colour is supposed to emulate butter and yet it is nothing like butter. The ‘buttery taste’ copies are not butter like, they are just a smudge nearer than ordinary margarine.

Vegetarian bacon, burgers or sausages should not really exist at all because there is no such thing. They also taste nothing like the meat they are emulating but vegetarians have no basis for comparison.

Fakes never match the original whether it is food, a painting or the latest offering of TV’s huge bucket of competitive star, wannabe, talent or skill programmes, ‘The One and Only.’ I have never understood why anyone would want to create a tribute act or band rather than something original. Even less do I understand the reasoning behind a programme where the winner; having been voted through each week and gone through all the highs and lows of the performances; only gets to be a copy of someone famous, something they were doing already.