Miscellaneous News

Vegan restaurant to serve meat amid crisis​

The Mango Tree, a vegan eatery in Taunton, Somerset, has announced it will be reinventing itself with a meat-inclusive menu following brief renovations, citing the prohibitively high cost of doing business “as a purely vegan restaurant” in a notice posted after it closed its doors on Saturday.

After “an exciting period of change,” customers will be able to return for “a variety of dishes to accommodate a wide variety of dietary needs and preferences,” the restaurant revealed, explaining that “continuing as a purely vegan restaurant has not been sustainable for a considerable amount of time as not enough customers supported us.”

The restaurant strove to put a positive spin on the news, reassuring vegan clients they would still have access to the same “delicious plant based dishes that would otherwise have disappeared” and even tried to head off potential ethical criticisms by pointing out that “ethics extend to the jobs and welfare of our wonderful team, to whom we owe a great deal, and another chance.”

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FriedButter said:

The situation in the UK is so dire that a vegan restaurant is now selling meat dishes in a bid to find new customers. Tho their current customer base will ditch them after this move lol.

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Energy bill at Tom Kerridge’s pub to leap from £60,000 to £420,000​

Speaking to the BBC, Mr Kerridge said one of his pubs has a monthly electricity bill of £5,000 – but this is set to soar to £35,000 in December when a tied contract ends.

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BoraTas said:

I expected this coming. Because the general rule is worse things go in the USA and UK more China is collapsing on their media. We had a lot of collapse of China articles this month. So:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1567147078715080704

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Biden 'sure' he will see Xi if Chinese leader attends G20 meetings​

Somebody is getting anxious. Xi is going to Kazakhstan next week, then meeting up with the SCO gang afterward. Meanwhile, Biden and Kishida are begging for a chat with Xi. I'm 100% certain these leaders don't want to chat about climate change.

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Strangelove said:

I'm sure he'll see Bossman Xi from across the table....but will he be granted a talk with the boss is another question.

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