[{"_1":2,"_40":-5,"_41":-5},"loaderData",{"_3":4},"routes/__layout/tag.$name",{"_5":6,"_7":8},"tagName","food review","posts",[9,30],{"_10":11,"_12":13,"_14":15,"_16":17,"_18":19,"_20":21,"_22":23,"_24":25,"_26":27,"_28":29},"id",1167,"title","Today's Pret","excerpt","Tried three things at Pret today. The mozzarella sandwich was bland, the \"cranberry\" cola is mostly grape juice despite the wholesome marketing, and the lemon cake is probably not handmade but decent enough to order again.","body","\r\n

More than mozzerela: basil, rocket, mozzerela, pine nuts, mysterious sauce. Good in places but mainly bland, and mozzerela doesn't feel very substantial even though it's very good mozzerela. More basil would have made it more interesting. Generally not tasty enough, nor particularly satisfying.\r\n
Pret cranberry cola: Pret's marketing centers around the lack of chemicals in its food, so I was interested to see what was in \"cranberry cola\". The ingredients list: grape juice, carbonated water(40%), cranberry juice (only 10%), grape extract, citric acid, ascorbic acid, natural cranberry flavour. They have a cute little asterisk next to the two acids saying \"Don't worry, citric acid is just lemon juice and ascorbic acid is simply vitamin C. (we have to use the technical jargon to keep the food authorities happy!)\". So it's nice that they think to explain what the acids are, but then why is the \"cranberry\" cola more than 50% grape juice? That's not sounding too pure to me, it wouldn't have been hard to call it \"grape and cranberry juice\" would it? Unsurprisingly, it doesn't taste much like cranberry juice and is rather bitter, but refreshing if you're looking for a fizzy drink that's not too sweet and not just water.\r\n
I'm very doubtful that their hand-made lemon cake is at all hand-made, but I'm not very bothered if it tastes nice. Not particularly sweet nor (for the cake part) noticeably lemony, it's a bit heavy, but moist and filling. The top is the most interesting bit; it's been covered in coarse-grained sugar which has then had lemon juice sprinkled on it, which is a very nice and as you eat that suffuses through the rest of the fairly bland cake. So overall pretty good, might have it again.\r\n

","updated",["D",1063014370000],"created",["D",1063014370000],"codename","todays_pret","legacy_id","2837","published",["D",1063014370000],"draft",false,{"_10":31,"_12":32,"_14":33,"_16":34,"_18":35,"_20":36,"_22":37,"_24":38,"_26":39,"_28":29},1164,"Prêt-a-revue","I'm reviewing every product at the Pret a Manger near me. First up: a surprisingly good prawn sandwich, an excellent yoghurt granola fruit bowl, and a Coke. More to come.","\r\n\r\nI have a new mission in life, folks. Over the next few weeks, I am going to buy, sample and review every single product sold in the Pret a Manger across the street from me. I will post my reviews here, for the betterment of all mankind. So, kicking off with today's meal:\r\n

The deluxe prawn sandwich was definitely an experimental choice; you wouldn't catch me eating prawns in a sandwich. Or so I thought. Consisting merely of big prawns, fresh mayo and nice bread-with-bits-in, this sandwich was light, tasty and refreshing, without any sort of \"fishy\" flavour I was expecting. Very yummy indeed.\r\n
This was followed up by the Natural Yoghurt Pret Bowl. These are amazing creations. Fresh-tasting fruit in a medium-thick syrup of some kind, covered with a layer unsweetened natural yoghurt, covered in turn by a thick layer of crunchy honey-glazed granola and nuts, the three ingredients mix unevenly as you eat, producing a sweet-sour-crunchy-smooth mixture that's different every time. I thoroughly recommend these.\r\n
My drink today was an unimaginative Coca-Cola, which is of course the drink of the Gods. In future however I shall sample the range of Pret-branded drinks on offer.\r\n

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