I post from time to time about the Society of the Spectacle, a book by Guy DeBord and also the key text of the Situationists. Their focus, in Marxist terms, is on commodity fetishism. Everything is a commodity, a brand to sold and bought. Advertising and social media multiply the experience in 2025.
In that context I note that the 2025 Pigs and Blankets Season has opened unusually early. It would not normally commence until after Halloween. A related benchmark is the arrival of the Greggs Festive Bake.
Pigs in blankets, originally cocktail sausage wrapped in bacon, has expanded (not perhaps always happily) across many variants in recent times- even extending to one for dogs (who might think would be quite happy with the original).
News of other sightings welcome. In related Christmas news I am told that the Cheese Footballs season has also opened although I have yet to see any
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