Doorstep diet is now the order of the day

I HOPE you’re sitting down because what I’m going to tell you is so shocking you may never look at anyone under 40 in quite the same way again. It’s now considered normal for that age group not to wake and make themselves a cheap cup of hot coffee in their own kitchens as you or I do.

Instead, many of these youngsters will open an app on their smartphones and order a takeaway coffee and croissant to be home-delivered by a man on a bike.

If you don’t believe me, go onto the Starbucks website (other coffee chains also have websites) where a black coffee to your door will cost £3.60 and a latte £3.95. I warned you. Shocking!

Imagine a world where instead of popping the kettle on or ambling out to the shops you were so idle and spendthrift that you got your morning coffee handed to you on your doorstep without moving a muscle.

I regard this as the height of decadence. And also, such a waste of money during the cost of living crisis. I mean, would it even be hot by the time it arrived? And I like it hot!

To my mind, the takeaway Starbucks is a symbol of a once proud nation in irreversible decline.

Some facts and figures. The NHS already spends £6billion a year on the obese who, according to a new report from Cancer Research UK, will number a whopping 21 million in 18 years’ time.