For all I know, this is old news to Londoners but it struck me as noteworthy.
When in London a couple weeks ago, Dafydd Harries, and Dave Miller and I decided to make a trip to the (in)famous speakers’ corner on Sunday morning. We listened to an eloquent socialist, an orderly debate between a Christian and Muslim, some racist "Britain for (my definition of) Britains" loon and a few choice others.
As we were about to head out, I couldn’t help but notice a guy walking around a sign that reading "Olive Oil Party" who was calmly drinking a bottle of olive oil. Every once in a while he would pause to rub some oil onto his body, scalp and face but mostly, he was just chugging it (click to see the full size image).
He stood on the top of the step ladder and delivered what must be the party platform:
Down with Coca Cola!Down with McDonald’s!Down with junk food!Down with Bush!More trees less Bush!Long Live Michael Moore!LONG LIVE OLIVE OIL!
The went into more detail and I lost a lot of it. I vividly remember his discussion of how foolish it was that the US had gone to war in Iraq; after all the US was going after the wrong oil.
Totally brilliant.
In any case, it wasn’t the most unbelievable thing I saw that day.
LONG LIVE OLIVE OIL.
I couldn’t agree more!
You are correct. That could be considered unusual. I mean, what the guy said, not the drinking of olive oil in such a fashion.