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| UNRELATED: missing my bro this Christmas (he is on an oil rig) |
I wanted to do a post on ‘how to have a vegetarian Christmas’ (above) but I couldn’t be bothered to take any photos and my mum has done all the cooking which means it would be a bit of a cheat. Next year, huh?
Anyway, I wanted to bring to you a little story. When I was about
8 or 9, my parents took me to Spain for a summer holiday and it was the first
trip on a plane I had ever had!
We flew with British Airways and apart from the whole
getting a metal lump filled with people into the air and actually managing to
steer it to a specific location, the most fascinating thing for me was the sick
bag.
I wondered if I should start collecting them from all the
different airlines. The one (overwhelming and ultimately fatal) worry I had was
that most of my friends had already flown before. What was the point in
collecting them when everyone else already had TEN sick bags? I was on the back
foot and instead of fighting against adversity, I gave up.
Over the next few years, I had the good fortune to fly with
Aeroflot (you shared a recycled one), Emirates (a 24-carat gold sack for one’s
pukes), JAL (a cute Hello Kitty bag), American Airlines (supersize), Virgin
(you puke into a sexy cabin crew member’s hand) and so on and so forth.
And each time I flew, I thought “you stupid, stupid idiot –
why didn’t you start collecting them when you first thought about it” but NOW,
I can’t start collecting them because I have missed all these opportunities already
and so there is absolutely no point…even if I manage to fly on a million more
airlines, there is still no point because I have missed all these
opportunities.
And this is how I feel about Fusion Organic Café in
Sheffield. It’s always a worry to review a restaurant when you have spoken at
length about sick. I don’t want anyone to get the wrong idea here so let me be
explicit:
I ONLY WISH THAT I HAD TAKEN A PHOTOGRAPH OF EVERY SALAD I
HAVE EVER EATEN THERE BECAUSE THEY VARY EVERYDAY, THEY ARE MORE INVENTIVE THAN
YOU COULD EVER IMAGINE AND THE PEOPLE THERE PRODUCE SIX SALADS EVERY DAY. I STOPPED
TAKING PHOTOS BECAUSE I HAVE MISSED SO MANY AND NOW THE TASK FEELS
OVERWHELMING. THE SALADS ARE DELICIOUS AND THE ONLY REASON THEY ARE LINKED TO
SICK IS BECAUSE I SHOULD HAVE STARTED TAKING PHOTOS OF THEM WHEN I FIRST
THOUGHT ABOUT IT.
And so, this is (to eliminate any remaining confusion) a
positive review.
The salads cost £3.70. You get to choose 3/6 salads and when
I say salad, I mean lentils and sweet potato and bulgur wheat and purple
sprouting broccoli, olives, courgette ribbons, coconut rice….basically all the
stuff that you can’t be arsed to cook! For all the veggies out there – this place
is as good as it gets for a work lunch. It’s almost all veggie and loads of
gluten-free, dairy-free stuff. OMG I can’t shut up about this place and OMG it
does meat too for all you cute-baby-animal eaters (lol lol).
Oh and one final thing. The café is a training café linked
to Freeman College so that young people with learning difficulties or
behavioural problems can train and work in a great environment. The staff there
– especially Moo, who is perhaps the most enthusiastic cashier I have ever met –
are wonderful. It’s a great business and a producer of ultra-healthy food that
we are lucky to have in Sheffield.
Butcher Works, 74 Arundel Street, Sheffield S1 2NS – I think they close at about 3pm and they are also shut in school holidays. Take out or eat in.
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