“Two teenagers, one skinny and one stocky, are being hunted after a haul of chocolate bars was stolen from a lorry parked in Bradford last night.The suspects got into the lorry, which was in a car park off Tong Street, through unlocked back doors and stole two ten kilo boxes of Bounty bars, valued at [...]
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Food politics, ethics and issues
On the tragic state of coffee in the office
October 3, 2008
There are a couple of things I dislike about my job. One is Internal Audit, the other is this coffee machine. This coffee machine is my office nemesis. It serves the worst coffee imaginable – too strong, foul tasting, with little bits of undissolved instant coffee around the top of the too small plastic cup. [...]
Boddington’s at Elland Road
September 16, 2008Rumours are flying around the various Leeds United boards that Tetley’s is about to be ousted as the official bitter of choice at Elland Road, in favour of – and this is the part that will make any self-respecting Leeds fan explode with indignation – Boddingtons. That’s Boddington’s. From Manchester.
Leeds Corn Exchange
September 11, 2008
The redevelopment of the Leeds Corn Exchange into a world-class food retailing space appears to be floundering badly. The plan was to move the independent retailers and assorted Goths, Emos, etc on and transform the building into a ‘food emporium’ with food and food associated retailers taking up the units. Anthony Flinn has taken the [...]
The perfect job
August 25, 2008