A Question Earlier Tonight Brought To Mind The Belfast Actor, Harry Taub, And Prompted This.

[sandyRoe]

He wrote a short story which he read on Radio 4. It was set in the time he was a student at Belfast Tech and he would go with his mates to have a cheap lunch in a rough cafe in Upper North St in Belfast. The Irish Stew was everybody's favourite. It was a substantial bowl of spuds, carrots, onions, and a bit of meat and only cost 6p. That's 2, 1/2p in decimal.
He said, in the story, that he stopped going there when he saw the chewed gristle, that a resident of a local homeless men's hostel had left, being tossed back into the stewpot.
He was about 10 years older than me. Should what he saw have been given more publicity? I ate in the same cafe for years.

[sandyRoe]

The stew I ate there over the years did me no harm so what publicity the story got is probably immaterial.

[BlackadderV]

Was this not what became known as the 'British Restaurant'? Might be wrong.

[bunkmoreland]

It was a different era sandy, you cant compare with nowadays. I lived in Belfast for 35 years ,we change and move on!

[Peter Pedant]

British Restaurants became Victory restaurants in 1984 ( the book ) innit ?

Someone complained about an egg in Booth Hall canteen ( now closed ) and reported seeing it back with its clucky colleagues, for re-sale, with the tell-tale bite out of it !

we all survived

[Peter Pedant]

yes bunk you CAN compare it with yesterday.... !

[vulcan42]

That reminds me of a story (sorry sandyRoe).
The duty officer at an RAF station was checking the airmens mess and asked if there were any complaints. One airman said the meat was tough and the DO picked a piece of meat off the plate and put it in his mouth. That's not too bad said the DO, the airman replied It should be OK sir, that's the bit I've been chewing for the past five minutes.