Well, obviously, it will be a hell of a rugby match, but as culinary clashes go it could have been better. Look at whom we could have had: the food heaven that is Italy, the haute cuisine of France, the seafood paradise of Portugal, not to mention Argentine beef, Japanese sushi and New Zealand lamb (although discussing food with All Blacks fans can be risky: I once mentioned kiwi fruit and they thought I was questioning their sexuality).
But instead of an explosion of flavour in the scrum, we have South Africa and England: home, respectively, to salt cod with apricot jam and the doner kebab.
Nevertheless, let us persevere. No country is a culinary desert: or even a dessert. For our World Cup final