{"id":8673,"date":"2019-01-09T13:17:18","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T13:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=8673"},"modified":"2019-01-10T11:12:06","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T11:12:06","slug":"cheese-toastie-shocker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=8673","title":{"rendered":"Cheese toastie shocker"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday’s online version of the Bristol Post (now renamed Bristol Live. Ed.<\/em>) carried a shocking item<\/a> about a hitherto unknown catalyst for violence: the toasted cheese sandwich.<\/p>\n

According to the Post, this humble snack may not be served at a proposed catering concession in Monk’s Park in Bristol’s Southmead<\/a> district “amid fears a proposed hot food van could attract booze-fuelled anti-social behaviour and motorbike gangs<\/em>“.<\/p>\n

The Post continues:<\/p>\n

Councillors have agreed to grant a provisional licence for cold food, such as ice cream, and tea and coffee in Monk’s Park, Biddestone Road.<\/p>\n

But the vendor would be barred from selling hot snacks following dozens of objections from residents, a ward councillor and the headteacher of a nearby secondary school.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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A provoker of violence, accompanied by not quite so provocative tomato soup. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

However, the fear of violent behaviour was not the only concern for banning hot food: councillors on the city council\u2019s public safety and protection committee also feared children from the next-door school would be tempted to skip lessons due to the lure of grilled fermented curd.<\/p>\n

Following the committee’s decision the concession will now be put out to tender.<\/p>\n

However, the story does not end there. When your correspondent posted about the article on Twitter, one person to respond was local artist Dru Marland<\/a>, whose response about fermented curd addiction was hilarious.<\/p>\n

\"XDru's<\/p>\n

For a more complete understanding of the violence-inducing properties of cheese, I should have asked the committee about their opinions of more exotic varieties of fermented curd, such as Roquefort<\/a> or Graviera<\/a>, but pressure of time dictated otherwise. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Update:<\/em><\/strong> Not forty-eight hours after Bristol was opened to national<\/a> and international<\/a> ridicule over this affair, Bristol Live reports<\/a> that residents of Bristol’s Cotham district have branded a hot food catering van an “appalling idea<\/em>“. You couldn’t make this stuff up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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