Sometimes you just feel like giving up. Are you actually supposed to interrogate the waiter and then sneak into the kitchen to find the wrapper your food might have come in, just to make sure your restaurant doesn’t lie to you?

Council food enforcement officers investigated around 300 restaurants, retail outlets and food manufacturing premises, and found that one in five restaurant descriptions were misleading people. For example, New Zealand lamb was passed off as Welsh, Scottish butter and French brie were sold as Somerset products, ‘local’ ice-cream was found to be Carte D’Or brand, and local Devon ham was actually Danish.