fast food at night

                                                            Fast food at night

London in the early morning is a rather different place. So many bars and clubs more or less make a mockery of the old licensing laws that used to decree that pubs shut on certain hours. When the laws were liberalized there were many dire warnings of what would happen but in general the level of drunkenness did not rose particularly, that is not more than it had already.

London in the small hours particularly on Friday ad Saturday nights is the domain of the drunk. So many people get together to drink in bars and go on to their clubs usually with music provided. The night is long and mostly there is a favourite food, the Doner kebab

This food is made of meat specially placed on a grill from which slices are cut. With the addition of salad it is placed n a special thin pitta bread, Sauces are added the usual repertoire being chilli sauce or garlic sauce.

This has become one of the foods of choice after a heavy night’s drinking. Britain tends to have the custom of an evening spent downing pints of beer and then going for a kebab to absorb some of the alcohol. The Spanish custom for instance, of eating along with the drink is not much in evidence in the pub culture here.

However doner kebab is something the British public have taken to their hearts. The places in London are usually run buy immigrants from Turkey who stay open all hours of the night. Their work is admirable as they work long and hard and have to put up with a lot of abuse from drunken customers who seem to think they can vent all their frustrations on them

Most other people in this society would give up on this enterprise but this does not faze the shop owners who carry on with the job regardless.

So much is actually made in this trade and in a way they suffer less from the clientele that the chicken and chips shops also ubiquitous who mostly have to shut much earlier.  Fish and chips shops of the traditional kind tend to close much earlier. The shops that have chicken and chips usually sell cheaper products so instead they usually have troublesome adolescents who are more likely to have got their highs from illegal drugs such as cannabis and then plan quite nasty violence instead!

The drunkenness in London and other towns has usually raised a lot of concerns about the alcohol fuelled crime that occurs in city centres at night. Various solutions have been proposed such as a minimum price for drinks. However at the real centre of the problem is the fact that most people in these situations feel they have no other outlets for their frustrations apart from getting roaring drunk. Until this is addressed London and other cities will continue to experience this sort of drunken and drug fuelled behavior!