2011-11-11
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2011-05-06
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Always good advice, this. (via Bossiness is in the eye of the beholder | Quad Royal, via unreliablewitness via pandemian via nevver)
2011-03-31
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vegansaurus!: Redefining Vegetarianism: Oh NO he didn’t! (via kkr !)
He retracted that later, but to be honest, I’m more annoyed about this:
his new restaurant, Nopi (he’s even re-defined London’s Soho; Nopi is an acronym for the Northern Piccadilly quarter where he’s opened)
Er, no. Just no. Soho’s been called that for three hundred years, and you don’t get to come in and rebrand it with a stupid restaurant name. Maybe - possibly - if your little venture is still there in a century we’ll think about it, but before then, can you bugger off back to Portobello Market with all the other posh gits and confine your overpriced cakes to the forsaken corners of West London? (Oh, and that store in Islington, but that place hasn’t been the same since the Great Estate Agent Takeover of the mid nineties, anyway.) Thanks.
2011-02-24
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A map of the places of origin of some Protected Geographic Products, from a BBC News magazine feature asking What exactly is a Cornish pasty?
2011-01-06
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2010-12-09
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2010-03-06
The British Junk Food Report
rentzsch wrote an interesting post on some of the junk food he tried while in the UK for NSConference:
The absolute most-important thing for a U.S.-based traveler to the U.K. is knowing what junk food you should load up on while there. Here’s our report:
Kit Kat Chunky: DON’T BUY. There are far better things to spend 260 (!) calories on.
Really? I love Kit Kat Chunky, although I have a particularly soft spot for the allegedly limited edition Caramel variant. Maybe I’m just dull, or perhaps the mix of biscuit and chocolate is just more my sort of thing.
Wispa: BUY. This was the least-interesting bar to me, but came up the biggest winner.
Its very concept didn’t appeal to me: an “aerated” chocolate bar. More than anything, it seemed like a hack to give you less chocolate for the same price.
If you try only one chocolate bar while in the UK, I recommend Wispa.
Wispa has a competitor, Aero, which is more air, less chocolate. It also comes in a mint version. Personally I find them a bit too light, but occasionally they’re right.
Wheatabix: BUY. Apparently these are State-side, but I never noticed or tried them until I arrived in London. They’re like a fine-grained Shredded Wheat that dissolves much more rapidly in milk. Yummy, if you’re the kind who likes soggy shredded wheat (I do).
Minor correction: the product is called Weetabix. I don’t eat breakfast cereals, though, so I have no other comment.
(Tumblr is stripping the style attributes from the span tags. Sigh.)
2010-03-01
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Marmite’s spoof perfume ad; they’ve actually launched a cereal bar instead, along with the latest of their limited editions, Marmite XO.
(I don’t like Marmite. They’re doing well on branding though.)
