WITH the northern hemisphere heading into the winter months, and Britain glaring into the uncertainty of life post-Brexit, one Bristol-based food critic is suggesting an alternative to pharmacy products to tackle colds and flus.
Reviewing Bristol Pho, a Vietnamese street food restaurant, the Bristol Live foodie compared the restaurant's flashing neon sign to a pharmacy's frontage, and that's not where the similarities begin and end.
"People may be stockpiling medicines for fear of what happens after October 31, but I just hope the owners of Pho have put into place plans for 24-7 production overdrive for their huge stock pots of 12-hour simmered broths," the culinary expert urged.
"If we are heading for the long, hard winter that's predicted, it's the least they can do to keep the nation in rude health.
"When you're feeling fragile and need something steadying - usually after a heavy night - these bowls of joy are just the ticket.
"If I'm feeling snuffly and snotty, I go straight for the 'hot and spicy' bowls or the house specials, which are so persuasive and robust that they're more like a vigorous session with a hairy Turkish masseur the size of a Sumo wrestler.
"It can only be a matter of time before the house specials at Pho are available on the NHS."
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