Courtesy of the canteen facilities in the visits room, I have discovered the joys of "cheesy chips". You guessed it - fries sprinkled with grated cheese!
What else have I been missing??
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Ben
Lecturing
About Me
- prisonerben
- United Kingdom
- Previously known as "one of Britain's best known prisoners...he constantly questions authority and exposes the futility of the system" The Times, Ben was finally released from prison after 32 years in August 2012. Pleading guilty to the murder of a friend when he was 14 years old, he renounced violence and fought for the recognition of the inherent dignity of all human beings. As a result of speaking truth to power, he served far longer than the recommended 10 years, leading Education Secretary Michael Gove to argue that he had "been punished excessively for a crime committed as a child". One of the more intellectual of prisoner-campaigners, Ben chose to educate himself from schoolboy level to having both undergraduate and post graduate degrees. He is currently one of very few prisoners in Britain ever to attempt a Doctorate. Ben's speciality is non-violent action and the Human Needs Theory. Now on Life Licence, He is forging a career as a CJ policy consultant, writer and - as ever - campaigner.
Have them with chilli.
ReplyDeleteI think this could be the new image for your release campaign. "This man has been in a cell for so long, he's never experienced one of life's greatest pleasures ... cheesy chips."
ReplyDeleteThere is a buscuit you take, its really not very nice at all, its called a cheeky wotnot :P
ReplyDeleteYou've got use really hot chips, the cheese has to melt and go all stringy... you've got me feeling hungry now.
ReplyDeleteWhat else have you missed since about 1980? I read about a woman who was blind for 30 years and then her sight came back: she didn't recognise the place and neither will you. Some things are better, some are worse. I can't wait to read what you make of it!
cheesy chips and gravy
ReplyDeletemelted cheese and marmite on toast
Nah, you haven't missed a thing Ben, its all been down hill since the seventies. Cheesy chips are a novelty, but after the second time of eating, they taste vile and are very bad for you too. Whoever invented them clearly wasn't thinking of the rising incidences of diabetes, were they?
ReplyDeleteDon't know how to not be Anon but I am Ann. That has really made me think about how isolating prison is and how time/development passes prisoners by. There must be so much change in 30 years but we don't notice. It will be really interesting Ben to read your thoughts of the outside today when you are released (think you may wish to be back inside!) Lol
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Cheesy chips and beans.
ReplyDeleteI think one big thing that you have missed in the last year and need to see is a 3D film. Not because a 3D film is better than a 2D film, but the technology and the illusion is fantastic.
Just make sure the first 3D film you see is not Shark Night 3D.
Coming up soon in the High Court: Ben's arteries sue him for cruel and unusual punishment! :-)
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