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When I ordered scrambled eggs on toast in a café in Forest Hill last week, I asked for ketchup and they brought me a little pot of the stuff. I could tell straight off that it would only be enough for one slice. It made me smile because I’ve been listening to Mickey Flanagan’s What Chance Change series on Radio 4. It’s a really good four parter with a mix of stand up and interview material, as he remembers his East End working class roots in Bethnal Green and compares them to his now middle class existence in East Dulwich. In one of the episodes, he recounts the exact same thing that happened to me in Forest Hill, happening to himself in a local café. My way of dealing with the situation was to ask for more Tommy K when I had finished the first pot. Mickey’s way of handling the issue, was to think of it as sampling a bottle of wine in a restaurant, telling the waitress that it tasted good and could he have the rest of the bottle please. Genius…