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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…

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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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

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