Borough Market (Southwark)

What I do have is a set of experiences.

And I think it would start as a place called Borough Market in London, London Bridge.

It's a very famous food market, but something that has been around for a very, very long time, way before... how popular it is now it's actually a tourist hot spot but I've been going you know for a very long time um and maybe this goes way beyond 20 years ago but I was already getting to know a lot of the food vendors at this place um I developed a huge passion for eating and experiencing different types of food and cultures and Borough Market was one of those places which was on my journey into central London, and I'd always go there.

You know, it got to the point I'd go so often that I'd take friends there.

I'd even go on dates there, first dates there, just because I was so comfortable there that I was in my safest person, safest space.

I was in a natural environment for me.

There was no awkwardness, at least for me.

And I always felt that if I went to somewhere like Borough Market, if it was someone I didn't know, let's say, it would be the truest form of me you'd experience, okay? But if it was with friends, it's just...

I think I'm pro-risk and anti-knife, and I only say that because I often go to food and veg markets, as you would expect with my head of food job on, and there is nothing quite like the look you get when you get a small penknife out in order to cut a citrus fruit, a little citrus knife.

It sort of works on the lemon fields of Amalfi, but on Borough Market, you just look like you're about to knife someone.

The look is strong.

Yeah, well, I think it's reasonable in an urban context.

And

where we're staying is near Borough Market.

And she hasn't been to Borough Market yet.

Ooh.

And

the last time I went to Borough Market was with my best mate, Mart, and I bought a loaf and a pie.

Right? And we was carrying stuff around.

We went to the Tower of London, and there was one bit where Mart had to go up this... rickety staircase so I stayed at the bottom and after he'd come back down we went on and it was about an hour later I suddenly realised that I'd left my loaf and my pie in the Tower of London so some lucky person they probably thought it was a bomb a meat bomb they probably had the bomb people out

So I got home, like, one time, got McDonald's.

And I woke up late this morning because I was going to go to the Borough Market, save my stomach.

I didn't eat until, like, later today like in the afternoon i just went to a restaurant thanks to them uh

cracking

But if you look at the people who have been the most alienated from this country, like the ones who have been prepared in the most extreme cases to take up arms against it, to go to Iraq or Syria and join the militias, or to carry out terrorist attacks here.

The London Bridge bomber, the Borough Market attacker, actually going right back to the 2004, the 7-7 attacks, or the abominations in the Manchester Arena.

They're all products of British schools.

These are not unassimilated immigrants.

it here.

It was in Borough Market.

And you used to sometimes do a segment down in the market.

There was somebody who was always sent out in the cold, in all weathers, to cook something up as a little segment.