Now, I do know that is arduous, however in gentle of current occasions I feel I would like to come back out and say it. Hello, my identify is Flic, and I’m a avenue meals addict. It feels good to get it out within the open.

How do I do know I’m a avenue meals addict? There are signs. If you’re affected by any of the next then I’d advocate in search of your nearest meals van and entering into for some severe therapy choices.

The tell-tale indicators of a Avenue Meals Addict

1. Your cellphone is filled with footage of meals. I don’t know after I stopped having the ability to admire a meal for what it was, however as soon as upon a time, earlier than we had been all hardlining the web, I used to eat issues with out taking footage of them first. However then how would the remainder of what it regarded like?

Real footage from my cellphone during the last yr. Clockwise from high left: Breakfast toastie, bowl of cereal (no, I don’t know why), handmade biscuits, chocolate fondant, the rocky street toastie, beef miso soup, penis pasta, egg quiche and central: spring onions and ginger root.

2. You possibly can now not eat the quick meals variations of your avenue meals favourites. Burgers are an amazing instance of this. You eat an excellent, messy burger from certainly one of our avenue meals buddies (Meat Shack or the Authentic Patty Males if you’re wherever close to Brum) and the limp, tasteless type of a McDisappointment looks like a waste of jaw motion.

3. You realize many of the different native avenue meals addicts. All of us hand around in the identical locations, so we stumble upon one another loads. We must always most likely begin a assist group with circles of chairs and pale tea in syrofoam cups.
Or picnic tables within the sunshine, both manner.

4. You exit within the rain to get it. I actually admire this one. I imply technically, after I’m out within the rain doing avenue meals, I’m additionally inside a pleasant heat van. You guys are simply getting moist, and that’s a degree of dedication that goes above and past the standard meals fan, who will scarper on the first signal of drizzle.

5. You select a competition based mostly on the meals as a lot because the music. We’re nonetheless just a few years off Glasto saying that The Jabberwocky are headlining the spot simply over from the Pyramid Stage, however a great deal of festivals are actively in search of higher meals, and many individuals have began taking a sly look on the culinary line-up earlier than firing money at a weekend of mud and music.

6. Sourcing isn’t nearly including ketchup. You end up noticing a free vary right here and a uncommon breed there. You enquire after the origin of bread. We like this: It makes us really feel like the additional care, time and expense is justified. Additionally please; if it wanted ketchup, we’d add ketchup.

7. Even when avenue meals sucks, you may’t assist however keep it up. Most likely extra one for the merchants amongst you. These previous few months every little thing that might presumably go fallacious, and a number of other issues that actually had been extremely unbelievable, have gone fallacious. But right here I’m, with a working van and only some lasting scars, and we’re nonetheless sticking with avenue meals.

Now collect spherical, you’re in a protected place right here. Are you a avenue meals addict?