Ep 9 Trailer Bite Me - The Upper Crust & Underbelly of London Street Food

We'd love to hear from you!Bite Me – The Upper Crust & Underbelly of London Street FoodApril 1779. A man waits outside a London theatre with two loaded pistols. A lady he’s enamored with is about to leave the building. The problem is she’s the mistress of another, well known man. What happens next will scandalize the city.Who is this other well-known man? You probably had at least one of these snacks named after him already this week. This is Publicity – The Guidebook Gap. I’m Expat Andy, broadcasting from Miami in the sunshine state. My job is to be your insider guide to the London that doesn’t make it onto the highlight reel - the London that’s hidden in plain sight, if you know where to look… History, culture, pubs, and all.Our next Episode, Episode 9, is titled Bite Me – The Upper Crust & Underbelly of London Street Food. It’s about London street food – the portable kind you eat with your hands, on the go. It’s about John Montagu - the Fourth Earl of Sandwich. Hellfire Club member. First Lord of the Admiralty. The man who accidentally named Hawaii. The man who died broke. And the man whose defining contribution to human civilization may have been invented at a gambling table – or a desk - depending on which version of the story you prefer.It’s about the East End of London, and the eel. The only creature that could survive in the filthy Victorian Thames. And the food culture it produced that’s still - just barely alive today.It’s about Greggs. And Pret. And fish and chips. And why “as cheap as chips” no longer means anything.It’s about London’s famous food markets such as Borough Market. Their Cornish pasties, pork pies, sausage rolls, and scotch eggs.And it’s about a pub named after a food, that became famous for something else entirely. It launched the careers of the Rolling Stones, Rod Stewart, and Eric Clapton in the process.London’s food. London’s myths. London’s pubs.Launching wherever you get your podcasts Monday March 23.