Fried bread is nothing unusual, it's a standard part of an English fried breakfast. Using fat that's previously had bacon or sausages in it is always a good move for better-tasting fried bread.

Tesco's had (maybe still has) venison burgers. They were interesting, but not something I'd bother with again. Unlike venison braised in red wine, which is amazing.

I've developed a great recipe for flapjacks - blowing my own trumpet, but I've yet to find a shopmade version to match it. It makes a good alternative to breakfast (the way I make it, one slab keeps you going all morning) and never goes stale, so I used to take some when I went camping. Unfortunately, one Spring Bank Holiday I went climbing with a bag of these, and it got hot. Really hot. Now flapjacks are oats held together with cooked sugar and margarine, and in the heat all this gave way to form one squishy brown oat-textured bagful of mush, rather resembling a used pooper-scooper bag... I wasn't entirely surprised when I offered it around and everyone refused, but all the more for me, right?

Graham.