Londoncooking.co.uk » london http://londoncooking.co.uk Easy to make, healthy and quick recipes for Londoners starved of time Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:33:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 LondonCooking coins a new nickname for London (with a little help from Red Dwarf) http://londoncooking.co.uk/2009/02/londoncooking-coins-a-new-nickname-for-london-with-a-little-help-from-red-dwarf/ http://londoncooking.co.uk/2009/02/londoncooking-coins-a-new-nickname-for-london-with-a-little-help-from-red-dwarf/#comments Sun, 08 Feb 2009 11:34:02 +0000 Ron Nussey http://londoncooking.co.uk/2009/02/londoncooking-coins-a-new-nickname-for-london-with-a-little-help-from-red-dwarf/ London Cooking’s raison d’etre is to serve you regular lashings of delicious, quick, healthy recipes (plus a little bar/pub/restaurant tips on the side.)

On the odd occasion, however, we like to veer off topic.

There was a piece in London-based newspaper the Economist lately on the various different nicknames the capital has earned over the years:

Manhattan-on-Thames, Londonistan and, lately Rekyavik-on-Thames, to name a few. But where does the Economist say our fair city is headed now? In essence:

‘London will simply resemble the less prepossessing city it was in the 1970s and 1980s, before the excesses and excitements of the New Labour epoch’

So, as we journey to the past (not necessarily a bad thing?) LondonCooking would like to suggest the following as a fitting, affectionate new nickname for ‘the big smoke’:

Nodnol

This links us to the classic episode of Red Dwarf in which the crew lands in an alternate London where everything plays out backwards. And as they too discover, it’s not all bad…

What do you think? Does the name fit? And will it stick?

It’s got to be more cheery than ‘the Abyss’, or ‘the Empire of Hunger’, right?

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