Jerked Back In Time
The last time I was in Los Angeles, I spotted a massive billboard at the corner of Highland Avenue and Hollywood Boulevard. It was advertising a brand of beef jerky with the proud boast that this particular firm had been making jerky "since 1971".
There was something about that date that didn't seem right. Had the jerky people been drying meat since the19th century, I might have been more inclined believe they possessed some kind of Wild West know-how. But the seventies? Not exactly ancient history.
I thought of that today while in Aberdeen. I was killing time before catching a train back to Inverness and I had a wee saunter through the It's well worth a visit just now because it's in the middle of a big renovation project and there's an archeological dig going on. Inside the church they've built a glass wall which allows you to look down into the dig site. You can see the foundation of the previous churches that have been built on that location. You are, in fact, looking back in time...right back to the 11th Century. It's fascinating.
But then, hurrying back to the train station, I passed a fast-food takeaway place that claims to be the "first in Aberdeen" for kebabs. I'm not sure if this meant they were the first choice for meat on a stick or whether this, like the jerky thing, was an historical claim to be the first to have sold such delicacies in the Granite City.
One day archaeologists might dig them up about that.
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