Category Archives: Food

Mono

I almost forgot about Mono. I feel pretty bad about that; after all, it’s a fully vegan bar. The food’s great and none of the beer contains fish. 

They even have Sam Smith’s stout on draught. 

We ate there yesterday and the pizza was gorgeous. They even allow bike parking on the stage.

M&S

I have to say, I’m quite impressed with Messrs Marks and Spencer. While having left us many years ago, in body that is, they’re still producing cool things. 

For example, their ever growing range of gelatine (melted down bones and tissue) free sweets. 

But, this very evening, I have purchased a packet of their crisps. Salted, multi-coloured crisps. 

Naturally, one would assume that purple crisps would contain food colourants. And, perhaps, that chemicals are needed to prolong their shelf life. 

But, no, that’s not the case. These crisps have only three ingredients. 

13th Note

Ok, so maybe we’re now in the 13th Note rather than on a train. The second pint of stout in Mono persuaded me that I needed a falafel burger. And a pint of West’s St Mungo. 

MacSorley’s next I think. Then perhaps a train. 

Curried eels

I just came across this on the Eels website. 

I did know about the vinyl release of old eels albums, but I’d believed to have sold out. I was (first) happy to see that they’re on sale again, but (secondly) less so, because I don’t have a turntable. I’d buy one, but then I’d have to find somewhere to put it. So, maybe not. 

However, a short while ago, I enjoyed a very nice thali. 

Jalapeno

My second in command and I are now in the Herb Garden for food. I’d not noticed the lighting before, despite having been here several times previously. 

The extra Jalapeno wasn’t my best ever decision though. But the pizza was nice. In a lethal hot kind of way. 

Corpse consumption

I suspect that this will not happen in my lifetime, but it’s strange (or not so) how studies carried out years ago are only in recent years being replicated on a scale which makes them reportable in the mass media. 

It’s nice, in a not so nice way, to see the findings of those early studies being vindicated. 

For example, the acceptance that consuming processed animal bits can massively increase the risk of cancer, not to mention heart attack. Then there are the other, now accepted, related ailments. Type II diabetes for instance. 

There’s one certain fact though. It’s only a matter of time before we (vegetarians and vegans) will rule the ‘civilised’ world. 

Like I say, maybe not in my lifetime. But it’s moving in the right direction.