Raising funds by eating fish and chips (a British favourite) is an annual event in the Welwyn Garden City (WGC) Baha’i community. Erica and I missed it last year because it happened just before we moved to Welwyn. We needed no second invitation to join last Friday’s grease-fest this year.
A gourmet occasion it is not! But it’s greasy and fun. Around 50 of us crammed into the home of one of the WGC Baha’i families and stuffed ourselves silly. We also made a lot of noise (this has to be one of the noisiest clusters). What amazed Erica and me was the gusto with which the Iranian Baha’is piled into the fish and chips. Persian food is much more delicate and elegant than this old British stand-by.
In fact, Aref from our community got excited about the fish and chips evening weeks ago and said that fish and chips was his favourite food! However, he did complain that we started to eat very late. Fish and chips takes time to digest and lies heavy on the stomach, as I became painfully aware at about 3.30 on Saturday morning.
Ah well, all in a good cause, as they say.
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