Look, none of us doubts that there are profound and mysterious connections between
food, passion, love, sex and death.
Even so, I was surprised by a recent headline in the Daily Telegraph that read,
YouTube chef ‘chopped up lover and dumped his head in the sea.’
I won’t intrude on the grief of the people concerned by naming names, though of course you can look it up. What actually fascinated me about the headline was that the paper thought ‘chopped up lover and dumped his head in the sea’ needed to be in quotation marks, whereas YouTube chef didn’t. I suppose this mean that anybody who calls themselves a YouTube chef,isa YouTube chef.
The Telegraph article enters the Nicholson archive alongside other headlines that include
‘I’ve got a taste for killing,’ says cannibal who ate man’s tongue.
The Head in the Hellman’s Box
Hunger forced her to eat raw batter
Teen ‘poisoned dad’s pasta and choked mum’
Chef cut corners on pie that killed worshippers
Sausage Tycoon killed in his sauna with a crossbow
How very different from the home lives of our own dear Angela and Helena.
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