Seoul Food

Have we three years to go to South Korea to eat dog? Or do we need only to go to North Korea whenever we liked? It is hard for North Koreans to get out, but it is usually quite easy for foreigners to get in, and the continued closure after Covid-19 could hardly be said to apply to those of us who were not tourists, darling. Do they still do the dog sausages in Switzerland? And the cat in garlic and white wine sauce, made all the more delicious by the fact that garlic is toxic to cats? Both should be served as specials at Wetherspoons.

Sir Tim Martin richly deserves his knighthood. Wetherspoons employs thousands of people, it has preserved hundreds of historic buildings, and it has provided the community hubs that the closure of numerous public amenities would otherwise have destroyed. In those hubs, the cross-section of society is the embodiment of equality and diversity. What, exactly, is it that the haters hate?

Yet how some people do love to hate Wetherspoons. How they gloat at closures, a certain number of which are inevitable from time to time in a business of that size. What they mean is that they hate the customers. Obviously, since we are so numerous, then we must cover the full economic, social, cultural and political range. At the same time, though, we are by definition the people who value the reasonable prices at Wetherspoons. We are the backbone of Britain, and they know it. We should wear their hatred as a badge of honour, as Sir Tim should wear the insignia of his knighthood, and no doubt does.