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Check the Fake Plastic Lemon

Posted on 8 August 20258 August 2025 by Andrew Myers

Andrew Myers If you were to inhabit the body of an insect while retaining all the vital aspects of human intellect and perception, and find yourself on one of the vertical surfaces of the present writer’s kitchen, while a dish involving fish or seafood is being prepared, or indeed during any activity, culinary or otherwise,…

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Souprice

Posted on 1 August 20251 August 2025 by Hex Admin

A recipe by Wolfie and Rubes Ingredients – 1 can butternut squash soup– 1 cup cooked rice– 1 vegan chicken stock cube Method 1. Cook rice2. Cook soup3. Put rice in soup and stir together with stock cube Optional garnish:1. Fry diced vegan chorizo sausage, a handful of chopped green beans until crispy2. Add a…

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Pink Soup

Posted on 1 August 20254 August 2025 by David Williams

David Williams writes on food and activism, or “How to Feed 100 People” We’re keeping it simple here. This isn’t fine dining en masse for a swathe of paying guests. This is doing a big ol’ quantity of grub – bonus points if you can make it healthy and nourishing – for a relatively unknown…

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Noodles and beans

Posted on 21 July 202531 July 2025 by Merlin Betts

Merlin Betts The dish, the legend: instant noodles and a tin of baked beans. I like to imagine the origin of this meal being as momentous as… curry sauce and spring rolls making it into the chip shop. But! as far as I know, it started with a friend of a friend’s parents chucking something…

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Hastings Examiner (Hex for short) is a community news source for Hastings, East Sussex.

We aim to take a deeper look at issues affecting the town, and are more than happy to support community-led initiatives trying to make Hastings a better place.

Have a look around. If you like what you read, check out our mission statement or get in touch via info@hastings-examiner.uk. We’re a voluntary organisation and welcome anyone who wants to get involved.

Everything still under development.

Recent Posts

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Daily Poem

We’re a largely text-based outfit here, so you’re going to find a few poets lurking.

Beginnings

Out of the primordial gooo
A beginning
Birth red and writhe like maggot
On the untrod surface of its earth
Gasp the first untainted breath
Flush lung from liquid’s grasp
And writhe toward your unknown future
All was written from scratched beginnings
Fragments scraped from disparate corners
No truths true but paradox
All logic mere invention
All walls built with nothing but
Bricks and mortar / sand and water
And all sand slips away in time
Structures crumble
Empires fall
And life begins again
Of a new primordial rubble

Oli Spleen, 2000

This section is meant for local poets. Submit your poems to info@hastings-examiner.uk. They’ll be added to our archive and eventually featured here.

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