There is absolutely no reason, apart from utter pretentiousness and a desire to appear trendy for not using the £ sign in front of any items on their food and drink menus, a restaurant has confirmed.
The Hog and Farrier , an upmarket eaterie in Hoxton, London, serves sliders (8.5 each) artisan cheeseboards (16), grazing platters. (13.25) and mixed mezes (11.75) alongside craft beers (4-6.25 per schooner) carefully curated by a resident hop sommelier.
‘We haven’t used £ signs in front of our menu prices for some time now’ said Martin Da Costa, Deputy Libation and Gastronomy Manager. ‘It definitely makes us seem more edgy somehow, and elevates the description of our food items to an even higher level.
‘ ‘3 kinds of olives, infused with Mediterranean oils and topped with soft organic feta’, sounds so much more appealing when it’s followed by 9.5, instead of £9.50.’
‘There’s that added air of mystery to it with the customer left to work out whether it is £, euros, dollars, maybe even Saudi riyals, or Mexican pesos’, continued Da Costa.
‘If you gave me 1.00 for every time I was asked when we were going to stop this pretentious practice of not using £ signs on our menus, I’d be a rich man’, concluded Da Costa.
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Having been named as Billboard's woman of the decade, Taylor Swift took the opportunity to slam misogyny in the music industry – not knowing that ‘slam misogyny’ was the funk-fusion of the bass playing of Mark King and the domestic violence of James Brown. She further criticised the ‘patriarchy of time’ (a concept album by ‘Yes’) and ‘a lack of female empowerment’ – a 90’s twelve-inch by Tori Amos. Â
Trying to make a serious point about female oppression in pop music, Taylor inadvertently gave Radiohead the idea for the name for their next tour - ‘21st Century Hegemony’. Meanwhile a call for greater female ‘Omnipotence’, ‘Prestige’ & ‘Liberation’, just sounds like Beyoncé’s next range of perfumes.
Her 15-minute speech reflecting on her struggles and exploitation, was quickly purchased by a private equity group, who plan to use extracts in a series of Coke adverts. Taylor then lashed out at how she was only being treated as a commodity – which also fits nicely on a t-shirt.
Her spokeswoman said: ‘Men need to hear the serious point Taylor is making and not just see it as another cynical way to monetarize a woman’s pain, which coincidently, Adele already plans to release later this year.’
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