Day 133: Peas and Sitting

Killing time in the Museum of London.  The galleries dedicated to early London are rammed with school children clutching questionnaires, and looking underwhelmed by the pottery fragments.  Things get more exciting further along the timeline, and the small cubby hole housing a looped film about the Black Death is crammed.  'Black pustules' intones the narrator with relish, invoking a frisson of excitement.

My standout fact is that Julius Caesar described Ancient Brit males as having long hair, and moustaches.  Classic 1970s.  Very happy to think that the ancestors were running around like Ron Jeremy.   

Downstairs in the modern London galleries, I am delighted to see this (left).  I remember the Less Protein man - he was often around Leicester Square tube station.  I engaged him in conversation once (actually less a conversation, more a one-on-one rant).  That day he was particularly vocal about peas and sitting, in addition to the more obvious protein-based targets (meat, eggs etc).  He died in 1993, fortunately well before the mass popularity of Atkins.

He had limited success with his twenty-five year campaign.  Probably because there's a basic problem with his message.  Most people want more passion, not less.

I bet Ron Jeremy isn't scared of protein. 

Off for some peas and sitting.