The Cambridge-Kebab-Money-Law (and the slightly illegal conduct of British Banks)
The Kasi-Wealth-Kebab Rule says:
The more wealth, the less kebab.
Cambridge is a rich town. There are almost no fast-food place except for a small McDonald’s, a few sausage-booths on market square. Well, you might call the Curry-Take-Away-Restaurants a “Fast-Food” if you consider spending 10 Pounds on Rice and Chicken Massala a good deal for a fast food. And yes, there is a Kebab place.
Unfortunately, I forgot the name. It’s in a side-street from Trinity Lane in the downtown area of Cambridge. It features a Doner Kebab for amazingly 4 Pounds. You can choose whether you want it with fries or salad – if you choose with Friese, they take out the salad and put in fries instead.
And worst of all – instead of using turkey, chicken or beef meat, they use lamb. Minced lamb marinated in an unknown sauce (I hope the picture made by Blogger Eivind Hagen gives a good impression of the look of it). My fellow classmate Tom said that the only way to survive such a dish is by being drunk.
Cambridge is a town filled with students (no kidding). The restaurants seem to make a good business. So there is no doubt why Kebab of half the quality and double the price as in Berlin is sold here: there is no supply and no competition. But maybe there is no demand as well, maybe Cambridge student either eat in their Colleges, go out to restaurants to spend their parents money or cook at home. In Berlin, you can find kebab-places on every corner, but you will find kebab-places in almost every second house only in the “wild” areas of Kreuzberg, Neukölln and Wedding.
Another economic observation: it takes hours to open up a Bank Account here in the UK. Even worse, they charge 6-7 pounds for each transfer from Europe and Overseas. That’s almost 10 Euros per Transfer. I am not sure if British Banks now that the UK also belongs to the European Union. In the European Union, bank transfers according to the law should not cost more than domestic transfers. Certainly it shouldn’t cost a fortune to transfer a fortune? Maybe British Bankers had too much lamb kebab?
Oktober 26th, 2007 at 19:30
This is where good taste…..hmmm