SARAH BUITENDACH: A wooden Spur menu from the 1990s? Inside the bustling market for nostalgia
Even if you can resist the allure of a pile of wooden menus, I’m sure you’ll appreciate how items from places that symbolise happiness and good times elicit positive memories
06 April 2021 - 08:50
While we wait for the inevitable spike in Covid-19 infections from the weekend of Easter partying (https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2021-04-04-titanic-coming-mec-warns-as-hundreds-party-on-soweto-streets/) and high volume of interprovincial travelling, allow me to distract you with an amble into a land of iceberg lettuce, Thousand Island dressing and surprisingly sweet deep-fried balls of dough from the Salad Valley.
There is nothing that takes the edge off a pandemic like a mental outing to the Spur restaurants of the 1990s. ..
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