Culinary comparison

In Competition No. 2772 you were invited to liken a well-known figure, living or dead, to a foodstuff.

This challenge fell on somewhat stony ground, producing a small if distinguished entry in which politicians featured strongly. Here’s a flavour of George Simmers’s Tony Blair pudding: ‘The inviting exterior has no real content, but is a glossy shell which quickly deflates, degenerating too soon into a brown mess with a bitter aftertaste…’ David Cameron hardly fares better. Tracy Davidson compares him to a sponge pudding: ‘The slightly blotchy, puffy top half struggles to maintain composure and consistency when faced with any heat.’ And for G.M Davis ‘cooled, congealed rice pudding’ brings to mind Ed Miliband’s speeches: ‘earnest, mollifying, predictable, passion-free and somehow glutinous, with the sticky consistency that held cold rice pudding in an inert, reliably dull block.’