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Holy breadsticks

IDLY studying a packet of Sainsbury’s grissini breadsticks, Chris McManus noted with approval that they were “Torinesi grissini”, so presumably from Turin. But the small print on the back says “Produced in Italy (incl. Vatican City)”.

“Doesn’t that suddenly transform both the Vatican and these humble breadsticks?” Chris observes. “Who would have thought that bakers toil at the back of St Peter’s, hand-rolling grissini?” Then: “Are these, perhaps, Holy Grissini?”

Sainsbury’s uses the slogan “Taste the Difference”. Surely, Chris,…

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