It is a useful feature in poor countries where the diet might otherwise be unbearably bland and stodgy.

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The sight of such unusually open dispute encouraged an outburst of enthusiasm from a public that had grown inured, under Mr Ahmadinejad, to a bland, adulatory media diet.

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In other words, creating structure in your diet doesn't mean that breakfast, lunch and dinner have to be bland affairs.

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