When I was in the UK years ago, a friend offered me a slice of bread with a creamy brown spread on top.

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Those who walk into the kitchen in a state bordering on panic and breathlessly eat slice after slice of bread and butter not even tasting it until the panic can be drowned in an almost meditative routine of chewing and swallowing, spooning and swallowing.

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