Overheard at the Guardian reading, Tofu eating, Yoghurt weaving, Vegan Deli Counter

(I'm off to Glastonbury tomorrow morning)

Fastest batch of sourdough I've made in a while

Having read todays Jay Rayner restaurant review

I can avoid buying any potatoes from the family farm

injured by a knife while trying to remove an advacado stone

We eat a lot of avocado in my house.

heaps of avo.

Brewdog are being shit again

Just going to pop myself in here - will be boycotting Fever Tree after their sponsorship of the republican/Trump convention.

I have Scotch bonnets, so we are definitely trying the peanutbutter, banana and chilli sandwich.

That aubergine is very good.

That did seem like a very odd move. Do you think that republicans are a key target market for them?

Grow your own and then zero packaging

This should be in the boycott everything (or whatever it is called thread).

I've made it at last!

rosemary cashews sound great.

My wife made avocado coco powder 'ice cream', it was good.

Spotted in the Metro

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Seems a bit creepy and retrograde to still be publishing this kind of thing.

especially knowing the contents of their bag, how does that come off in a positive way

Why? People making eye contact then striking up a conversation is how most relationships started before transactional dating apps.

At worst it's a guy who read waaay too much into a few glances from a girl/guy on the train or at best maybe the other person was keen?

Could also be that it's just made up by a junior reporter to fill some column space.

Harmless.

A loud woman informed me standing at a bar in a disco, that she'd seen me from a bus window walking down the street before.
This felt normal in the now distant millennial times. We've been together pretty much since then.

Sexual harassment is sufficiently widespread on the tube that there is a TFL advertising campaign against it. The idea that it is a space for sparking a romantic relationship gives cover to that. I am fairly sure that 99.9999% of women just want to get from A to B, without someone at best stealing furtive glances at them, and at worst verbally and physically harassing them.

To me, it comes across as a Richard Curtis / late 90s worldview, which I thought we had moved beyond.

https://www.mylondon.news/news/zone-1-news/london-underground-daily-reports-unwelcome-23715777

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/london-underground-sexual-harassment-tube-groping-catcall-a9694736.html

https://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/sexual-harassment-on-the-tube

You can find thousands of articles like this spanning all media across the last decade.

A loud woman informed me standing at a bar in a disco, that she'd seen me from a bus window walking down the street before.

A bar in a disco is a long way from the tube at 8 am.

I am not going to die in a ditch on this one though.

It is a fairly small contribution to the 24/7 firehose of sexual objectification of women.

Sexual harassment exists and yes it's a problem on the tube but that doesn't mean all interactions should just disappear.

I am fairly sure that 99.9999% of women just want to get from A to B, without someone at best stealing furtive glances at them

Maybe that's true but you don't know who was initiating the glances during this exchange and you're also assuming the other person was a woman.

Again I think this is harmless and fwiw my wife also thinks it's harmless and even more so doing it this way than actually trying to talk to them on the tube.