The Jilted Viscera of Ridley Road Market
Ridley Road Market is a notoriously perilous terrain to negotiate without finding oneself drowning in a sea of market stall excrement, slipping on a decaying piece of exotic fruit or sinking into a vat of discarded pigfoot. Regarded by most Dalston residents as a local treasure, it is best avoided if of a nervous disposition, have ever feared being attacked by an African cucumber, or are averse to offal in all its many forms.
Last Tuesday as I entered the Kingsland Shopping Centre, I almost bumped into a very tall man with long, neat dreadlocks, who was inspecting a raw liver, which he had held up to his face. Deep in concentration, he obviously had not noticed (or perhaps didn’t find interesting) that it was oozing blood all down his arm.
A couple of days ago, @redbuttondesign posted this delightful picture, taken in Ridley Road Market:
It reminded me of a cameraphone pic I’d taken on Stoke Newington Road in December 2008.
If you have any meat-related anecdotes or photographs to add to the collection, please email or @reply me…
