Readers will remember how, a few years back, a tearful Jamie Oliver struggled to re-educate the palates of British schoolchildren.
The celebrity chef's gourmet healthy options at lunchtime were boycotted by large number of grease-hungry youngsters whose appalled parents mercifully pushed fat-laden alternatives through the railings.
East London Street's Locanda de Gusti is taking a more subtle approach to the lucrative lunchtime trade emanating from nearby Drummond Community High School.
On the one hand it's offering sophisticated-sounding 'Pizza, panino, arancino, frittatina di pasta' (which translates, we think, as pizza, bread roll, deep-fried meatball – or possibly a small orange – and pasta omelette). On the other hand, for those who prefer their calories in English, it's serving 'Hot dog add crisps & juice'.
How will Broughton's youth react? Our money's on hotdogs.
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New Town Flaneur @NewTownFlaneur@theSpurtle Arancini are great, but they are not meatballs.
Broughton Spurtle @theSpurtle@NewTownFlaneur What are they then?
New Town Flaneur @NewTownFlaneur @theSpurtle deep fried rice balls, which may or may not be filled with ragù: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArancinoNew Town Flaneur @NewTownFlaneur
@theSpurtle ...and (a pedant writes), panino is better translated as sandwich, in this context.
Broughton Spurtle @theSpurtleHmm. Thank you. All sounds very delicious. Like we said: Our money's on hot dogs.