You know how it is, you have all these unanswered questions floating about in your head, so I thought I’d round a few up and chuck them out there. Some of these may have involved actual decisions being taken in actual meetings, which is a weird thought. 1: why oh why did anybody think that anybody actually cared whether their chips were hand cut or not? 2: what exactly is the combination of smells that makes Subway smell disgusting in exactly the same way all over the world? There’s an underground bus garage in the middle of Brisbane, a pretty malodorous place as you might imagine, yet the strongest smell that greets you when you get off a bus is the Subway. 3: Who suddenly decided that raw red onion was an essential ingredient of garnish? Come to that, what’s garnish for? 4: When the road’s dug up in UK it’s called road works, right? Why, in Oz, is it called road work? (If it’s just the Aussie mania for shortening things, they aren’t trying very hard.) And why is it still road works in New Zealand?

See what I mean? These are all questions that must have answers. But » Continue Reading.