Here’s hoping that everyone out there is having a happy winter break, however that plays out in your life. We’re spending an excellent week and a half in Arkansas at my parents’, enjoying the company of the family and a gluttony of food and books. Best wishes to all!]]>
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Here’s hoping that everyone out there is having a happy winter break, however that plays out in your life.
We’re spending an excellent week and a half in Arkansas at my parents’, enjoying the company of the family and a gluttony of food and books. Best wishes to all!
]]>We’ve been lucky enough to have a very nice chippy up the road. Peggottys was a neat family operation, one of that dwindling pool of old-school independent shops. We’ve gone there roughly once a week all year and gotten to know the folks there, so we were sad to learn that they were selling up … Continue reading "The end of an era"]]>
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We’ve been lucky enough to have a very nice chippy up the road. Peggottys was a neat family operation, one of that dwindling pool of old-school independent shops. We’ve gone there roughly once a week all year and gotten to know the folks there, so we were sad to learn that they were selling up to a group that runs several chippies in Colchester.
The hand over occurred a few days ago, and tonight was our first chance to frequent the establishment under their new ownership. Sadly, it wasn’t nearly as good as before. They had definitely changed either their suppliers and/or their processes. The fish was hard and rubbery, and the chips were pale and greasy. All in all, not the win.
Very sad, really. Luckily there are other chippies within ready walking distance, and we’re only here another month, so this isn’t catastrophe it might have been. Still, we will miss the Peggottys folks, their hospitality, and their food. If I’d thought of it sooner, it would have been really cool to have taken a photo of them all at the shop, but that moment has passed.
]]>Alert! One of our eagle-eyed readers (Lambo) pointed out in the comments that the details of this chart are almost certainly broken, and that the PCRM may not be quite the upstanding source that we might have hoped for. I think the larger point probably still holds, but this graph needs to be taken with … Continue reading "A serious case of misplaced priorities"]]>
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We are what we eat, and (all too often) we eat what’s cheap, and what’s cheap is what we subsidize.
Or, turning the thing around…
We subsidize unhealthy, environmentally irresponsible foods, so it’s hardly a surprise that, as a nation, we eat tons of the stuff.
To cleanse your pallet, I’ll leave you with a delicious organic mushroom from River Nene Farms…
