Endorsing Wannabe-PM Boris Johnson Will Not Help You Sell More Sausages

Boris Johnson’s sausages are definitely not bangers

Prime Ministerial hopeful Boris Johnson’s The Thick of It-worthy photo opp with Yorkshire sausage company Heck has backfired on both Johnson and the company. Observer restaurant critic Jay Rayner revisited a piece on Brexit’s impact on the U.K. food industry in 2017 in which Heck founder Debbie Keeble called Brexit “cataclysmic,” and reflected on how ending freedom of movement would be ruinous for the industry’s workforce. Johnson, of course, is chill with a no deal Brexit.

Just like any Brexit-adjacent food debate that has wormed its way on to Twitter, a miniature culture war has ensued, with those criticising Heck being referred to variously as “snowflakes,” “lentil-munching lefty vegans,” and other rhetorical whizzbangers. Heck later released a statement in which it says it does not endorse any particular candidate for Tory leader — and thereby Prime Minister — but creating the ‘Boris Banger’ suggests otherwise. [Twitter]

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• Sonny’s Kitchen has been a stalwart in sleepy Barnes for 33 years — it’s closing and making way for a new restaurant this summer.
• Fluffy steamed buns make way for Iberico pork rice and XO bone marrow as Bun House flips its Soho restaurant.
• That cheese-on-a-conveyor-belt-restaurant-shaped gap in everybody’s life will finally be filled at Kerb’s street food but not on the street at all market in Seven Dials. [Big Hospitality]
• Burger King has dropped a halloumi burger in the U.K., decades behind most pubs that serve food. [The Takeout]
• Good tweet: