Britons must abandon their obsession with food, says Will Self In a BBC blog entitled A Point of View: The British Vomitorium, he wrote: "It is arguably gastronomy that has replaced social democracy as the prevailing credo of our era. But whereas in the case of the National Health Service and state education it was politicians, social activists and campaigners who forged the new consensus, the vanguard of this chomping revolution was constituted by restaurateurs, television producers and celebrity chefs. "Once the working class were in chains, now they're in chain restaurants," he wrote. Mr Self, who was nominated for the Man Booker Prize last year, said that society requires "some sort of collective vomitorium." "What I think we should all do is throw up our very obsession with food itself, and enter the new year purged and able to forge a new relationship with whatever we happen to find on our plates," he said. Mr Self said that it is "undeniable" that in the past 30 years Britain has been transformed from a "culinary backwater - a stagnant reach in which floated the occasional meat pie or waterlogged cabbage" into a "foodie's paradise." Once upon a time our high streets were perhaps home to a chippie, a Chinese and an Indian. And this exemplification of the comic law of threes perfectly encapsulated the truth about our eating habits - they were a joke. But now, even the most desultory and cloned shopping zone in the most provincial of towns will boast five, 10 or 15 eateries, all jostling for business with their exotic offerings," he wrote. However he argued that Britain needs to tackle the hunger crisis that is still affecting many people across the country.