Two Bad Stomachs for £2.50

When I caved and bought corned beef sandwich filler* the other night, it was a 2-for-£2.50 deal on Tesco Sandwich Fillers: the other one I bought was a seafood cocktail, which I demolished with fresh bread last night.

Then I felt woozy and nauseous, went for a lie-down, couldn't stay awake, had vivid and stressy dreams, and had a bad stomach this morning. I don't feel as headachy or as sick today as I did the morning after the corned beef, but otherwise effects are similar.

Maybe it wasn't the red meat content that upset my stomach. Maybe it was something else ...

It's time I worked out exactly what sets off my stomach: one thing in Tesco's favour is that they list ingredients online. (Just to clarify, I don't think the food items themselves were 'bad' or 'off' or anything: I think that one of the ingredients set off a recurring food-intolerance problem.)

* texture reassuringly un-meaty. I am still not tempted by large slices of dead mammal. Fish is quite fleshy enough.

( For my reference later: ingredients of both )

Link triptych

1. Joyce Stranger died recently. I adored her animal books when I was a child: much of my pocket money was spent on her novels about farm cats, wild creatures, and horses.

2. "What I learned to do in those apprentice years was make those stories run down my arm." -- interview with Gene Wolfe

3. 'Nothing acts as well as Fair Deal Homeopathy.' *snort*