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Notes on Episode 5

Episode Title
In old western movies, when all seemed lost and the Indians, (Sorry native Americans slanderously portrayed by Hollywood) were poised on mass to attack, at the last moment the US cavalry would ride in and save the day. The expression “Here comes the cavalry” usually means reinforcements of some kind or someone arriving to “save the day”. Sadly, that does not always happen, even in real life.


Piped Music
Reference is made to piped music being universally disliked; this is a bug bear for some, although I am not aware now that it is that much of an issue. Probably we have learned to tune it out, but in the 1980’s and early 1990’s it was played in to add to the ambience of the retail experience.

Uncle Sam’s
Here we have the ultimate, as it were, in worker exploitation where a young girl is forced to work as a topless waitress, and was partly used to show just far how society has broken down in this dystopia I created. It would be hard to imagine anyone getting away with what is portrayed, given the introduction of human rights into legislation. This scene came in during the 1993 rewrite, and I must admit, it did make me feel uncomfortable given the age of the main victim of a very cynical corporate decision, and maybe later probably influenced the resolution I put in right at the end. The problem s that such exploitation does happen in other parts of the world today, if not on this scale or like this, but covertly, and it behoves us all to do what we can to stamp this out (end of rant)

Aberdeen Morning Roll

This is a small flat bread product which is unique to Aberdeen. It also goes by the name Rowie. And I quite like them. Unfortunately they are not available in Newcastle

Here is a recipie

Simpsons
This is a real bar that was in Aberdeen. Am not sure if it is still there now as I have not been to Aberdeen for some years.