Dubai could form the basis of a 'places rant thread.' I've never got my mind around the concept of a 'holiday' there, it's a giant shopping mall in the desert, in the middle of a motherway motorway system that makes Birmingham look nice, all built by slave labour, filled with the bling SUV-clad over-entitled dripping their designer labels everywhere, and you get to flit between hotel bars and restaurants while the locals and the foreign workers get to look on. Oh and it's filled with western workers who are 'all about the money' and will spend all their time telling you that, or would, if you can stand not planting a fork in their forehead.
But yeah, beef bacon. It's weird. I can eat turkey bacon (it used to be a thing over here, I'm sure). I've not been to Dubai for several years and hope to extend that record.
In other matters, where did all the Mexican places come from – I was in Spitalfields Market yesterday and I think it was all burrito and taco places. I've nothing against them, but hold on, healthy? HEALTHY. Get thyself to LA, one of taco vans, and find a taco smothered with cheese and good stuff. It's a calorie avalanche. I blame the those avocados. Ubiquitous green fuckers.