NEAR OUR HOME, we are spoiled for choice as afar as purchasing food is concerned.
In a few days time, a branch of the Whole Foods retailing chain is opening in our neighbourhood. As I understand it, the company believes that it is promoting ‘healthy eating’.
The new store is next door to a branch of a ‘fast food’ chain , which offers quite different fare from that which is sold by Whole Foods.
In which store would you choose to spend your money? The choice is yours. It is a question of taste.
HUNGER GAMES ???
They are competing for your custom. This juxtaposition was spotted (by me) in London’s Kingsway.
Many decades ago, ‘M’ and his then young wife ‘F’, both Indian Hindus, settled in the UK. F observed Hindu dietary practices far more than her husband. In the early days after their arrival in England, the couple were not well off. Consequently, if they treated themselves to a meal in a restaurant, they chose one which was not costly.
M used to take his wife out to a Wimpy Bar for a treat. For those of my younger readers, let me explain that the Wimpy Bars were fast food joints, rather like a very inferior version of McDonald’s.
M and F used to order hamburgers. F ate them quite happily, believing that they contained ham and not beef, which contravened her Hindu dietary restrictions. M said nothing to disabuse his wife’s misconception about the ingredients of the burgers, as she greatly enjoyed them.
Many years later, M inadvertantly revealed to F that the hamburgers that she had been enjoying during many visits to Wimpy Bars, contained beef rather than ham. She was horrified to learn this.
Nowadays after decades of happy marriage, the couple have become quite prosperous. I guess that now they would not be seen dead in a Wimpy Bar.
yamey 