Minor indignation has greeted the news that Marks & Spencer labels some of its teeny salads as “for two”, meaning the calorie count (and fat, salt, all the good stuff) on the nutritional information is halved. The salads are “primarily designed as a side for a main meal”, M&S told the Times.
Your lunch is already off track when you are masticating your way through a plastic pot of roughage; splitting it with someone would be worse than any sharing plate standoff. In the interests of journalistic rigour, I tested a dainty M&S “Serves 2 Supergreen Salad” and, honestly, two sporks duelling among the “verdant mix” of cucumber and edamame would be carnage. You would both end up coated in “fruity ginger dressing”. I wouldn’t trust two of my bantams to share it.
