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The YBFs
Young British Foodies.
Every year, there’s an awards ceremony dedicated to the grassroots talent in the food industry, the unsung heroes and the up-and-coming visionaries in the food world. These awards celebrate the people who are really, really into food, but haven’t received the recognition they deserve yet. Let’s call them foodies (despite my disdain for that term) because that’s what the awards are called, the Young British Foodie awards, or YBFs for short.
Entries for the 2017 tranche of accolades has just opened, anyone can enter into the various categories, from foodservice, via alcohol to food writing or social media sharing, on the YBFs website.
As a celebration of these awards, I want to share my 2016 entry with you. I’m positive it only narrowly missed being a finalist, at least that’s what I like to tell myself. I hope you enjoy it, while I get on with putting my 2017 entry into words.
But… you said everything would be OK, you promised you’d make things work! How can you let me down like this? How dare you! I can’t believe you did it. I can’t believe you treated me like this, led me down the garden path, wasted my life, used me and then trampled on my dreams! I’m never talking to you again, that’s it, we’re over! Wahhhhhhhhh, wahhhhhhh!”
