"Aaaaaarrgh ****! Somebody PLEASE make it stop!" - BB features editor Andrew Williams goes into panic when a glitch in his out-of-office reply starts spewing out emails to every single message in his inbox, some dating back to 2005, with one baffled recipient hit with an astonishing 109 emails in 10 minutes

"One of my aspirations was to source as much local food as we can. We are looking into a sty containing four happy, fat Gloucester Old Spot piglets, just across the road from the café where their meat will eventually be served." - Leona Williamson of St Werburghs City Farm Café in Bristol wins The Guardian's outstanding ethical achievement award for its piggy proximity. 31 March

"It’s just like French bread – and besides, potatoes have iron" – Luis Ramirez, a baker in Lima, Peru, where the military has begun eating bread made from potatoes – potato baguettes, braided potato loaves and mini-potato croissants – to combat rocketing wheat prices

"The meat and potato ones are really good" - Simon Davey, manager of Barnsley FC, on the pie delights that awaited Chelsea FC owner Roman Abramovich before last weekend's crunch FA Cup tie between the two clubs, having promised the Russian oil billionaire a free pie if he turned up for the game. Following Barnsley's shock victory, we're guessing the tycoon left instead with pie on his face.

I’ve quizzed [colleagues] on the content, and I’ve been amazed to watch the influence these kinds of books can have on an organisation – James Nolan, CEO of Sara Lee Fresh Bakery, tells USA Today about the book that helped him most in his career, the disturbingly titled Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done

“We’ll do our damndest to be the lowest priced [grocer]. We will be as aggressive as possible with prices. I’m not going to squeeze suppliers, but I am going to be very assertive.” - Andy Bond, the chief executive of Asda, quoted in The Guardian offering some soothing words to suppliers

"Google is white bread for the mind... it’s filling, but it doesn’t necessarily offer nutritional content" – And we thought white bread was a good thing! Professor of media studies Tara Brabazon, at University of Brighton, frowns upon students using Google for research instead of the library

“The 12 months ahead promise to offer significant competition across the grocery sector” – Market analyst IGD sticks its neck out