I AM a Saturday afternoon regular at the Tesco, Prestwich, cafe which up to recently has been serving all-day breakfasts and saving me the trouble of cooking for myself.

I turned up last Saturday to find that under the managements new policy, which sees "breakfast items" taken off the menu from 11.30am, there were no sausages available to complement their equally non-existent mash, which wasnt available the previous week either!

I dont know what planet Tesco's managers are on at the moment, but earlier this year they were advertising a lunchtime special in the form of bangers and mash. Now, apparently, sizzling sausages are breakfast items not to be offered later for lunch, and "mash", I was told by an anonymous assistant, wasn't possible because they have to use small, frozen potatoes. So, it's chips (fairly large considering those small potatoes) with everything!

The cafe has also demoted the illustrious egg, which I would have thought was an all-day item to be addled, boiled, poached, fried, swallowed raw with milk or even thrown at deputy-prime minister John Prescott, depending on the time of day and the customers inclinations. This being so, I didnt bother to ask about the beans, which in this day and age are all-day items not breakfast specials.

Go into any local chip shop and if you want sausages and/or beans you can get em lunch and supper and any other opening times. However, not at Tesco, Prestwich; not any more.

So, in a word, Tesco, Prestwich farewell. In future Ill do my shopping wherever cafes have the good sense to regard the sausage as a food rather than a breakfast item.

PETER WRIGHT,,

Whitefield.