Was/Is Morrissey Racist?

Re food what's happened is a great expansion of range of options to eat out, but at the indirect expense of preserving or restoring any idea of native (for want of better word) food culture?

I'm not sure what you mean by native food culture but if what you mean is regional specialities then their decline was much more to do with the growth of supermarkets, chain restaurant, etc in the 50s and 60s and little to do with migration. And anyway I would say that that decline is reversing. See "The Bad Food Guide" by Derek Cooper from 1967 for starters. Ho ho.

Has food diversity in the UK really got that much to do with immigration? Do the vast numbers of sushi joints that have sprung up over the past decade correlate to a Japanese immigration spike?

Yeah, the vast number of sushi restaurants that exist in every town in Britain and not just central London.

"Here pal, you fucken' at it? Not only has this fucken' fish's no' goat any batter oan it but it's no' even fucken' cooked!"

http://www.ufindus.com/sushi_bar/corby

Weird, there's no sushi joints in Corby?

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Well, sushi isn't a great example but otherwise yes. Starting with the french and their heavy sauces.

One does get tired of the endless round of sushi restaurants in Hull.

(Akshully there's a little independent Chinese restaurant that does sushi and it's dope.)

No Sushi in Bletchley or Droylsden either :-(

I'm willing to bet there isn't one in Goole.

We should start an I Love the Provinces board.

OK, sushi is a poor example! But a lot of the increase in food diversity is not about immigration. There are other factors.

Morrissey would join.

xpost I already said as much tho. Imports like potatoes, coffee and tea weren't initially accompanied with swathes of immigrants.

But largescale changes in British diet (curry, kebabs, spag bol) are pretty much directly tied into mass immigration.

Except chilli con carne.

And holidays abroad.

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I remember when Colman's started doing this chilli packet mix in the early 80s and suddenly we had a new meal for tea that wasn't meat and two veg or fish fingers and chips. Happy days.

Dad started bringing the spag bol round about then too. It seriously was some kind of nirvana.

My best in with posh girls has always been them going "Oh wow, we had a Sicilian who worked on my grandparent's farm in the 50s. He introduced "linguini" to them!"

I suppose this would be true if Moz was involved in xenophobic British politics, but as far as I know he isn't a member of the house of commons. The man is entitled to his opinion, and if people wanna pay money for it more power to them.

waht

is right but then you might still wonder how you get into the position where you have to basically rely on importing people to heal and teach.

-- blueski, Thursday, November 29, 2007 1:55 PM (42 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

original fifties immigration was done to staff up the nhs (possibly transport too?).

and how you get into that position is partly by having a war.

Yep, transport too but not only public services, e.g. textile industry oop North

No English accents in Knightsbridge --> Harrods is in Knightsbridge --> al Fayeds in Harrods --> keep our British institutions British --> omg Morrissey killed Diana!

She was about to marry an immigrant!

Y'all know about that Morrissey/Diana conspiracy site, right?

http://www.dianamystery.com/Diana-Morrissey_Phenomenon.jpg

Morrissey is jackin' it in that picture.

Looks like he's smelling one of his own farts - and lovin' every minute of it

Let's do pix of Moz tugging one out

http://laswompe.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/fib06_morrissey_p.jpg

Wistful.

(also NV holy shit at that website! CUCKOO)

http://www.informationleafblower.com/blog/archives/morrissey1.jpg

UNNNGGGGGH WHITE WEE-WEE

xpost Yeah it's Old School web mentalism at its best, that one.

http://www.caffeine-headache.net/weblog/Morrissey-You-Have-Killed-M-353389.jpg

Readers' Wives

http://www.onewaymagazine.com/images/artists/morrissey1.jpg

On the Q.T.

From fatso to waxwork

This dude still rocks a suit better than all of us.

Speak for yrself, dude.

Indeed. Also he can afford good ones.

And he enjoys measuring his own inside leg, by the looks of it.

http://photos.contactmusic.com/m/morrissey_011007/morrissey_13_wenn1599952.jpg

Lost in a moment he can't get out of.

Morrissey's lawyers threaten legal action against NME

Do you think he'll be okay with the wanking pics tho?

Irish Blood, English Spunk

http://version2.andrewkendall.com/images/photographs/livemusic/morrissey_160306/main/morrissey_160306_4.jpg
And what a mess I've made of my...trousers...

I'll never make that mistake again, etc...

I thought he was farting in that one TBH.

I thought he was farting in that one TBH.

-- Noodle Vague, Thursday, 29 November 2007 16:04 (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Hahaahh! You have killed me!