Stupid stupid stupid

I went to the gym the other week (that's not the stupid bit).

I felt a bit hungry, but I remembered that they had some sort of vending machine with sports drinks and snacks like cereal bars.

I thought I could manage a cereal bar, so put my money in the machine and pressed the buttons.

Unfortunately I must have pressed the wrong'uns, because what came out was something quite horrible.

It was from the makers of Lucozade, it aimed to provide energy, and it was a sort of gel, the basic content of which was glucose.

It came in a tube, and what you had to do was to cut the end off and sort of squeeze it into your mouth.

The taste was disgusting (just sweetness), the colour and consistency bland (think wallpaper paste) and overall it just provided calories to make you fat without any of the offsetting positives in terms of appearance, taste and feel of, say, a nice bar of chocolate.

Now here's the stupid bit: as I had spent good money on this rubbish, I consumed it.