Thanks for meeting with us, thanks for coming to Manchester!
I'm loving it here!
How long have you been here for?
I got here the other day and I had only been here for Soccer Aid in 2014 and all we got to
do is pretty much go to the... come on... and I think for me is like you know I
got to the hotel had a couple meetings and training sessions, the game and then
it was back to London. So for me to actually sightsee and loving the music
from here alone and like I played in a band and we played like Inspiral carpets
songs and Happy Mondays songs and Smiths songs and it's just I totally
admit anyone who looked at my Instagram will see I like made a b-line for the Salford Lads Club
I have to say though, although I'm here with Meat Lust and this amazing gustatory tour without question
some of the best people like I've ever had a chance to meet hang out with party
with like great people here it's phenomenal
y'all are awesome, y'all are awesome
Your here with Meat Lust, so what have we got, what we checking out?
alright, so with Meat Lust I'm actually working with them
to develop rubs and sauces of my own with them because I mean it's a
Mancunian company, it's family-owned, it's family-run and as a Brooklynite that idea
that local emphasis really resonates with me but also the fact that you're
having restaurants, like, what did someone call it, CP's?
Oh yeh Crazy Pedros!
Crazy Pedro's, I guess some cool kids called it CP's, but we went to Hip Hop Chip Shop, Northern Soul Grilled Cheese
and I think you know the bottom line is there are young hungry
pardon the pun professionals in Manchester that are using products from
other young hungry professionals in the city I love when the food scene is
like it's other people building each other up so much of the world could be
so catty and bitchie that it is so nice to see people positive
and supporting the local breweries like Shin Diggers like the idea that like
these guys love each other they love being from Manchester they love
supporting it and that's the thing we Meat Lust they believe they know
that like I'm about keeping it real and big bold flavours and the fact that we're
watching... a katsu curry pizza but that's the thing like why not if it works it works
Wow, holy moly I just say that and it happens? Wait a second, wait a second
Rihanna, Rihanna, Rihanna, Emmy Rossum, it doesn't work god damn it well
I got pizza so it's like 50/50, So what is it? You tell me, do you remember?
I do, I do let's see if I paid attention, their amazing pizza dough
that double-o semolina flour on the bottom the sort of the cornmeal... okay the cheese blend which is 80/20
80/20 with mozzarella and cheddar the katsu curry sauce instead of the
tomato base and then you have the panko chicken, red and green chillies, soy
marinated, shredded leek and the cashews and then the final is the katsu sauce
oh yeah the pizza force is strong with this one
that looks so damn good
now you know what it's like to have a bunch of people watching you eat, take pictures
oh I love this this is how the other half lives
here you go wait one second here you go I know you're on the job that's okay
that's okay we can go past the camera there you go
who's the big winner, cameras the big winner. For me I'm kind of cramming in my
Manchester education like I got here having before today never having had a
dandelion and burdock soda. What! I'm just saying it's happened since!
Have you had a Vimto? Huh?
Have you had a Vimto?
I've seen like Vimto gums, but I've never seen the actual drink?
No I've never had it. Is it like bought at a newsagents?
Yeh just pop into any shop round here, get a little tin of Vimto
OK so Vimto, but I never I never curry
curry at a chippy, curry sauce, that was I've not had
I didn't even know that there was a Mancunian variety of scotch egg before today
oh yeah the Manchester egg? yeh the black pudding, the pickled egg, again over my head
Did you try one? No, no, no I've so far gotten the curry
I've not done the gravy chips yet. I'm just saying I've had gravy on french fries we
call them disco fries, they're sh*t I get it, but you guys are like what did you say about
Morrissey, it's like no! I guess the thing for me is like I'm getting a chance
to see like everything, like to see Town Hall on my own time, eat at restaurants
like Australasia on my own time, but balance that with like going to Hip Hop Chip Shop
those folks sunk their whole life savings into this little camper and
they're making something wonderful like this is a wonderful really cool couple
that love one another that treat their customers with love like that's got to
be an international thing. That's what we're looking for isn't it - local produce
by local people, for local people.
I can almost forgive the Dixon family for having an arsenal legend among them.
Well thanks for speaking to me! You got it, thank you guys!