Beard Liberation Front
9th June
The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has said that a Financial Times report (8th June) that traditional pie and mash shops in London face a crisis due to ‘gentrification’ is overstated.
The FT focuses on the impending closure of F Cooke in Broadway Market in Hackney and suggests that customers, traditionally working class, are now hard to come by.
Yet at the same time the FT report has to concede that some pie and mash shops are thriving and some news ones are opening.
Pie and Mash consists of mashed potato, a meat pie (invariably with very little actual meat) and green liquor (parsley sauce).
The campaigners say that the liquor combines with the mash and pie to make a beard friendly mixture that rarely ends up in the beard rather than the mouth.
BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, pie and mash is an ideal meal for hirsute flexitarians, those people who mainly dont eat meat but occasionally do because it is 95% vegetarian with only very small amounts of meat. We do not however recommend the stewed eels also traditionally sold by pie and mash shops to beard wearers.
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