Less Passion

To anyone who lived in London up until the early 1990s this poster would be immediately recognisable.

 

Mr Stanley Green walked up and down Oxford Street every day for years and years wearing a sandwich board and selling pamphlets. He was a small inoffensive looking man whose mission was to persuade people to control their carnal appetites. He believed this could be achieved by eating less protein, in all its forms, and sitting less. Sounds sensible actually and probably as useful as most nutritional advice we are given. Things we have recently been told to avoid by scientists include; carbohydrates, red meat, salt, sugar, bread, alcohol, fats, coffee, tea, soft drinks, non sustainably caught fish, non organic chicken, fast food, processed food, fruit and anything nice.

 

I had forgotten about Mr Green until I saw this poster in the Museum of London. If you have not visited this museum I'd advise you to do so. It's not particularly busy and it's free and crammed with interesting stuff. I went on Sunday with my friend Ms Mansfield.

 

I like the history of ordinary things, the everyday stuff that we barely notice until, like Mr Green, it disappears for ever.

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