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Here's the deal. You have just had a really stressful day at the office and there is no Applegreen station for miles. On your way home you are so hungry, as my father used to say, so hungry, you could eat the twelve apostles and make a lunge for our lord!

Well according to wonderfully wacky trend hunter website some Iranian designers may have just the gadget for you. All you need is a small ice box or freezer in the boot containing a few grillable items and the Tailgate Grill pictured below. Just attach the grill to your exhaust pipe and after driving a few miles, hey bisto, a perfect hamburger. Perhaps you enjoy a well done steak, well, just put the boot down.

The tailgate grill gives new meaning to fast food. Forget that old line "too exhausted to cook", cook on your exhaust! The possibilities both culinary and comical are endless. For lovers of slow food, how about lamb with lots of garlic and rosemary on the M50. When your dinner plans backfire, attach your tailgate grill and drive!

Don't worry, the exhaust pipe just heats the sealed grill the fumes don't come in contact with the food.

Will it catch on? Who knows...ten years ago food was stationary. Now food is fast or slow, food goes, we eat it on the run, off the dashboard, I for one am not going to dismiss any food trend ever again.

To suggest that restricting in some way the sale of anything will reduce the abuse of it, seems to me somehow silly.

Now I know I'm only a humble (albeit senior) clerk in the complaints department, but I am not stupid enough to think, that by restricting the sale of chocolate, ice cream or chips people will not overindulge.

Similarly we already have strict laws restricting the sale of drugs yet the country by all accounts is awash with every kind of illegal substance. Should we restrict the sale of food to deal with the obesity problem?

Restricting the sale of alcohol is a reaction to the binge drinking phenomenon. What's needed is a change in emphasis in how we educate our children, what's needed is long term strategy, not knee jerk reaction.

Let's start teaching our kids how to make decisions. Teach them how to make intelligent choices rather than just cramming their heads with often unusable information just so they can pass exams. Let's prepare them to have a life as well as a livelihood.

It gets pretty frustrating sitting down here in the bowels of the office. Sometimes I just need to get things off my chest. The boss probably won't like it but what else should I do, after all, nobody's complaining!

Check out the Irish Independent article fuel prices fuelled by greed .

The article rightly advises that customers in the Dublin area would be best served buying their fuel at Applegreen and Tesco stations. In reviewing the rest of the country it quotes the cheapest and most expensive fuel prices, enabling motorists to get the best deal possible for their money.

There's one omission from the list. Over the last 4 years the Applegreen station in Urlingford, Co.Kilkenny exactly halfway between Dublin and Cork on the N8 has been consistently providing the cheapest fuel, on this, one of the busiest roads in the country. At the moment €1,14.8 for unleaded and diesel. The station also boasts an impressive food offer and free internet access.

Watch this space.