THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

I worked at the Little Chef on the A1 South in and around 2007/8,  If you dropped in at that time I may have made you an Olympic breakfast.  At the time there were absolutely no jobs in Grantham and I was struggling to get any work so when I saw the advert for a cook at Little Chef I applied and surprisingly I enjoyed it right from the off.

Jason Williamson, via sleafordmods.com

The food looked exactly as it did on the laminated menu, and therein lay the central problem.  It even tasted laminated, being coated with stale vegetable oil that acted as a barrier between it and my tongue.  Two insipid eggs, two rashers of unsmoked bacon, two tomatoes, two slices of toast (doubtless from a 40ft-long sliced cotton wool loaf) and two sad, sad sausages, surely the wurst I’ve ever eaten, with less flavour than roadkill stuffed into a condom.

Lewis-Smith, Guardian, 2005