Snack of the Day: 2023/2024 Season - Couverture souple

Outterside, Nic

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798396571112

Editeur : Independently published, 2023

Synopsis

There is something almost timeless about going to a football match – at any level – and catching a half-time snack or pre-match drink.
The smell of simmering burgers and onions and hot Bovril automatically brings back my earliest memories of watching my beloved Brighton & Hove Albion play in the third division of the Football League, almost sixty years ago.
Scientists tell us that the sense of smell is closely linked with memory, probably more so than any of our other senses. Those with full olfactory functions may be able to think of smells that evoke particular memories; the scent of an orchard in blossom conjuring up recollections of a childhood picnic, or the whiff of carbolic soap which brings back clear memories of school washrooms.
Anecdotally, many of us have had experiences where a certain smell - perhaps chlorine, fresh baked cookies, or seaside air - floods our brain with memories of a distinct event or location that we associate clearly with certain emotions.
So, for me my decades of watching football matches the length and breadth of the UK are always associated with the smell and taste of the grub shovelled into my mouth, usually in the 10 minutes before kick-off or at half-time.
When I started watching football properly as a child in the mid-1960s, we were only constrained by the very limited choice available with our few pence pocket money. For a pre-pubescent kid it was either a bag of Chipmunk crisps – cheese and onion flavour the de rigueur option – or a hotdog or burger, both served dripping wet with onions in soft equally moist white rolls. The only drink option was a Schweppes lemonade or Coca Cola.
But things have come a long way since then.
Technology has shrunk the size – and price – of once-exotic catering equipment and British culinary tastes have been broadened by the explosion of affordable casual high street dining since the millennium.
While chips, burgers and pies still dominate most grounds, these days, Dulwich Hamlet will do you a gyros that looks just like the one you’ll order when drunk in Athens. Taunton Town will fix you some dirty nachos or a vegan pasty. Fancy curried goat? Luton and Bristol have you sorted. And if you really love south Asian food, give the street food suppliers around Wolves’ Molineux Ground a visit.
In Yorkshire and Lancashire, pie and mushy peas are still the safe resort and in the east end of London, you usually can’t go wrong with pie and mash. But aside from a current trend to offer fully loaded kebabs or burritos, you haven’t lived unless you have tried a Wigan Kebab, a Bombay Sandwich outside Oldham Athletic’s Boundary Park or a wonderful Oriental Chicken Burger at Brisbane Road or my favourite cheese and Staffordshire Oatcakes – unique to Port Vale and Stoke City. Then there are Teesside Parmos at Middlesborough and Faggots and Mash at England’s brewing capital at Burton Albion.
Now whether you purchase your match day scram from a recognised vendor inside the stadium or from a street seller or nearby café or pub just remember, we’ve come a long way in 60 years… now you pay your money and make your choice.
Following the success of our 2022/2023 editions, this season’s book may further help you on your way. But please remember this is just one man’s subjective view, other fans may well differ.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798396571112
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• Nombre de pages: 193
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.de/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg