Comparing the style of food pin-ups

| Posted Oct 31st 2006 6:30PM by Anne Metz
Filed under: Fashionable Food, Style in the media

Did you know that this is National Sausage Week in the UK? But guess what? It's also National Vegan Week. (Obviously, the sausage people didn't talk to the vegan people...but I guess that shouldn't surprise me.) With both groups fighting for the bellies of the British public this week, I thought it would be fun to compare the styles of the spokespeople.

National Sausage Week has Carol Thatcher for a spokeswoman. I didn't know who Carol Thatcher was when I started writing this, but after a quick Google search, I found out that she is in fact, a British journalist, as well as the daughter of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. As the BBC put, Thatcher adds a hearty, no-nonsense image to the meat product.



National Vegan Week doesn't have a official spokesperson, but veganism does its own boy-wonder Moby. Moby is an electronic musician and a singer. He is also the great-great-grandnephew of Herman Melville, author of Moby Dick. Moby lends National Vegan Week a trendy, but pale image to the meat-free lifestyle.

But which spokesperson has better style? Well, Thatcher is definitely tougher looking. But, Moby was once threatened publicly by Eminem at the MTV Music awards. While I like Moby's glasses, I have to admit the obvious disadvantage Thatcher faces the spawn of the "Iron Lady."

What do you think? Who has a better thing going: Moby and the Vegans or Thatcher and the sausages?

Tags: carol thatcher, CarolThatcher, food, moby, sausages, style, vegans