The Times Restaurant critic recently shot and killed a baboon either as sport or as a hoax, it’s unclear which. Naturally, the Internet is aghast and completely up in arms about it today. No one gets wound up quite as completely as your average Twitter user. As an aside, if like a solid percentage of the commentators you don’t know the difference between the food critic, and the Winnie The Pooh author, A. A. Milne, who has been dead for over fifty years, you should probably recuse yourself from comment. Read the review in which he digresses into African hunting stories here. If this is what it takes to ascend the pinnacle of food writing, I’m off to bag my limit of urbanized raccoons.
To be fair, shooting a baboon seems somewhat unsporting and tacky, but unless you are willing to eat every scrap of meat killed for your pleasure moralistic judgements should probably be withheld.
~KT
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I don’t think its a hoax that he killed a baboon. It’s the kind of slightly school boy juvenile thing that it seems like he would do. Even his justification of doing it because he wanted to see what it was like to kill a human is straight out of the sort of Clockwork Orange fantasy.
What’s genuinely shocking is that he thinks Kylie Wong is brilliant (that MUST be an insider’s joke) and that a 185 pound lunch for four is considered middling priced in London. Yikes.