Last Orders: An appreciation of the takeaway menu, a dying cultural artefact Life&Style When I walked through my front door in Gateshead as a teenager, the doormat would be covered in a carpet of brightly coloured paper. A cherry-blossom pink menu from the local Chinese takeaway, the red and gold of an Indian place, and pictures of row upon row of bargain buckets from the local chicken shop. [...]
Will our Christmas dinner guests soon be AI chatbots? Life&Style Glad tidings of comfort and joy! Christmas has traditionally been a time for congregating with your fellow homo sapiens – but play nice over the turkey and sprouts this year: it could be one of the last where unmediated human interaction is still the norm. We’re about to enter a world in which AI bots [...]
The man with the scran: How the Footy Scran X account changed match-day meals Match-day meals How miserable portion of sausage and chips changed the way we think about stadium food – the inside story of Footy Scran (@footyscran)
