Nationalists Target Take-aways: Further Thoughts

Having slept on yesterday’s post some further thoughts arise in my mind about the whole takeaway thing, and this apart from the racism by implication that is inherent within this piece. Thoughts such as, did the person who wrote it do so after going for a curry, or a Chinese? But seriously, I have gone into a fair few grotty chippies in my time, and have simply walked out again; surely it is not beyond the wit of the average person to notice that such an establishment is not up to the required hygiene standards and to vote with their feet (just walk out), in most cases just the look and smell of such a place is enough for me. The other thing that springs to mind is does the author of this diatribe eat only English food; and if so what does she/he define as “English food”. Personally I think that it is almost impossible to define these days given that the national cuisines have become so fused, with Chinese, Indian, Mexican, Italian etc. etc. influences having crept into the everyday thinking of most people when it comes to thoughts of both eating and cooking. I know that I personally, as someone who enjoys cooking, would not be without a great deal of the herbs and spices from around the world that have come to be so commonplace in today’s kitchens. Also to pick up on the point of what is “English food” once more, such a definition is also almost impossible from another point of view; given the centuries of people coming across from the continent and settling here, the Angles, Saxes’, Jutes, Vikings, Huguenots, Norman French etc. etc. who really knows just what “English food” really is, or even what it was? Maybe the author should take a long hard look at what she/he eats before being so quick to condemn “non-English” takeaways in such a racist manner.