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There's a neat (newish) cafe on Station Road called Rio. I was there this lunchtime. The wife had the bread and veggie soup for £2 while I enjoyed a quality latte (£1.20).
The menu is pretty good and varied with a £3.20 vegetarian breakfast (egg, mushrooms, tomatos, beans and chips) -- slightly more for the meaty version featuring halal sausages. There's stuff like goat's cheese salad and humus and pitta on the menu too.
Ace! and not a lounge trendie in sight. It's about time cheap veggie food came back to the middle of Brixton. I'm well chuffed. :)
joevsimp
12-09-2006, 18:37
that might be good for me as i cant stand bacon, :p
tarannau
14-09-2006, 13:59
I've looked through the window a few times, but have never been there - I kinda get sucked in by habit to the Portuguese place nearby, or take a detour by the Bushman's kitchen. Is there anything Brazilian about the place, or is it just a random choice of name?
The wife says the owners are from North Africa. It's that kind of food, at any rate.
Had the English veggie breakfast today, for lunch :D
tarannau
14-09-2006, 15:02
Cool. We've got a Brazilian farmboy coming to visit soon (from deepest NE Brazil) and I wondered if there was any connection to Rio at all. He'll have to make do with more of the Portuguese crew
Still, looks pretty decent when I've been past. Not sure if it'll depose the Cafe on The Hill or the Phoenix when it comes to my Brixton cafe faves, but it looks worth a go.
Out of interest, do you get a drink included for your £3.20 for the Veggie breakfast? I've got to admit, that doesn't seem that good a deal. £3.40 buys me a excellent, whopping full English with all the meaty bits down the York Road...
What makes it Halal :confused:
tarannau
15-09-2006, 11:32
The butcher pulls the sausage skins on whilst facing Mecca...
;)
What makes it Halal :confused:
Firstly, not being made from piggies, secondly being made from something that had it's throat slit and was then bled to death. Rather than being stunned by having a bolt fired into its brain.
Much the same as Kosher really but without Rabbis doing the slashing.
The piggies bit is spot on. But halal slaughter cuts the jugular artery (with a very sharp blade). This results in immediate unconsciousness as the blood pressure to the animal's brain falls to zero. You can read a little more about the practical issues here (http://www.grandin.com/ritual/rec.ritual.slaughter.html).
Halal slaughter houses, like other abatoirs, are regulated by law.
I understand what Halal is,what i want to know is the rest of the menu halal or is it just the sausage?
nick1181
15-09-2006, 11:58
There's constantly fuss in NZ about halal killing on account of being considered cruel, but we need to export beef/lamb to the middle east.
I'd never heard of it causing immediate unconsciousness. Is this what human survivors of having their throats cut report?
Halal slaughter cuts the jugular artery (with a very sharp blade). This results in immediate unconsciousness as the blood pressure to the animal's brain falls to zero. That's the point -- it enables one to avoid the notoriously ineffective "stunning" before slaughter, as commonly practiced in our mechanised abattoirs.
Yes, in humans too, a loss of blood pressure to the brain results in immediate unconsciousness.
There's constantly fuss in NZ about halal killing on account of being considered cruel, but we need to export beef/lamb to the middle east.
I'd never heard of it causing immediate unconsciousness. Is this what human survivors of having their throats cut report?
Do people survive having their jugular artery cut?
... looks pretty decent when I've been past. Not sure if it'll depose the Cafe on The Hill or the Phoenix when it comes to my Brixton cafe faves, but it looks worth a go...
Two venerable establishments indeed, tho' the Phoenix makes no attempt to woo veggies.
Best thing about Cafe Rio (apart from food without flesh), is it's on the way to/from the Jobcentre for me, when I need cheering up :(
Red Faction
18-09-2006, 18:04
Do people survive having their jugular artery cut?
people dont have a jugular artery
There was an old person of Tartary
Who divided his jugular artery
But he screeched to his wife
And she said "Oh! my life!
Your death will be felt by all Tartary!
Edward Lear
Meaning the blood vessel that takes oxygenated blood from the lungs (after the heart) to the brain. More usually called the left and right common carotid arteries. But hey, going for the jugular is an English expression so perhaps the colloquial expression may be forgiven in the present context.
people dont have a jugular artery
Quite. No animal has a jugular artery. Tis the jugular vein.
(Arteries carry blood away from the heart, veins carry blood toward the heart.)
I'll happily second (or third or fourth) this reccommendation -- had two perfectly executed lattes plus a (generous) toasted vegetable sandwich, 5,50 all said, plus a nice chat with the owner (who's from Algeria) and his daughter (I think), who is a) four and b) capable of eating lamb bits and pommes dauphinoises using knife & fork in an astonishingly competent manner.
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