'Just cheese & biscuits will do me': Proof John Major really DID enjoy bland food revealed
JOHN Major was famously lampooned by TV satire Spitting Image as a grey man who lived on a diet of peas.
New files reveal John Major really did prefer unadventurous food
Now the Kew files reveal the former Tory PM really did prefer unadventurous food as he balked at a menu on his way to the Commonwealth heads of government meeting in 1991.
The premier was to travel on an RAF VC10 with wife Norma to the conference in Zimbabwe.
Items on the in-flight menu included supreme of chicken, grilled gammon Hawaii, ratatouille, avocado Waldorf, fillet of sole, cherries jubilee and fanned pears in calvados.
Plain food...Spitting Image satire
Stephen Wall, Mr Major’s private secretary, asked: “Do you regard any of this VC10 food...as edible? If not, if you could jot down three or four main courses you will like I will get the RAF to lay it on.”
Mr Major wrote on his aide’s memo: “As long as there’s soup and cheese and biscuits, I’ll be all right.”
Mr Wall then wrote to the Foreign Office saying the lavish bill of fare would not be needed.