WASTING FOOD is one thing … using pies – custard, pork, or otherwise for WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION is quite another. Ram is incensed. He says he saw many starving people when he lived in Somalia. Ram’s dad was the the first Hindu to be the BRITISH AMBASSADOR over there. So when Ram reads about PIE THROWING CONTESTS IN NEW YORK and other places it GETS HIS GOAT. This is not because he is a vegetarian but because he thinks it is INSENSITIVE to those that are starving. I agree.
Even history is being debased BY FOOD ABUSES now. Many years ago people from Yorkshire and Lancashire WERE AT EACH OTHERS THROATS in a series of BLOODY CIVIL WARS which are now known as THE WARS OF THE ROSES. Yorkshire has the WHITE ROSE and Lancashire THE RED. They didn’t FIGHT WITH ROSES – it’s just a gentle term to explain the RIVAL FACTIONS in a VICIOUS BATTLE.
Today that battle continues, in a sense, but in an EQUALLY UNCIVILISED FASHION. Now, once a year, YORKSHIRE PUDDINGS ARE PLACED ON THE TOP OF LAMPOSTS and MISSILES ARE THROWN AT THEM in the form of LANCASHIRE BLACK PUDDINGS. Black pudding is made from DRIED PIGS BLOOD. This has become known as THE WAR OF THE ROASTIES. Angus Burton says that HE CAN SEE THE FUNNY SIDE but THAT IS NOT THE POINT.
Not only are we concerned that FOOD IS BEING WASTED but as eco warriors, we are BIG ADVOCATES OF PEACEFUL BEHAVIOUR. Accordingly we would like to see if FAMOUS CHEFS like Jamie Oliver and Nigella might support a BAN ON THE USE OF FOOD AS AMMUNITION because as Angus says, before we know it THEY’LL BE BLASTING ICE CREAM OUT OF CANNONS NEXT.