From butchered bacon sandwiches to hot dog squabbles: six surprising food fights

Ed Miliband ‘enjoys’ a bacon sandwich. Photograph: Jeremy Selwyn/Evening Standard/Getty Images

Ed Miliband’s bacon sandwich

Was a photograph of Ed Miliband biting into a bacon sandwich to blame for Labour losing the 2015 general election? Perhaps not, but it did prompt a torrent of mocking coverage, memes and a cultural conversation that took in everything from class to antisemitism. And Miliband can’t seem to stay away from food controversy, telling Sky News “I wish I could have a cross-party consensus here with Kemi Badenoch. But I can’t. I think I need to persuade her of the delights of a bacon sandwich.”