Neo Nachos

It doesn’t have to be like this. We can walk out with our heads high – show this bitch that we don’t need her. She needs us and it’s about time she realised it.

I’ll level with you on this one. The Neo Nachos logo is visible in this particular episode of Spaced, but as with Silent Reading, it is very brief and at an angle. Though it does play a major part in the programme, so is definitely worth the time / effort. I will say, however, that it is a bit of a garish monstrosity. Which you can probably sort of see here. Half of it is an almost-Comic Sans nightmare also. Not only that, but the name and parts of the logo do reference, well, the Nazis? It certainly looks that way to me.

I can only surmise that the reason for this is due to the attitude of the boss Tina (played by a very young looking Thick of It stalwart Joanna Scanlan). What is a bit muddled is the fact that she’s clearly playing a character based on One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest antagonist Nurse Ratched. The staff are inferred to be mental patients, Daisy seems lobotomised after a day of solid pot washing and a ‘chief’ character* lifts a very heavy bin (though doesn’t actually smash it through a window). As far as I’m aware there is no direct connection between the iconic film and the radical 1930s German political movement. You would have to say that the nachos in the logo are very reminiscent of the National Socialist flag, though. Whether you would wear something that alludes to totalitarianism and ethnic cleansing in tortilla chip format is your call.

Anyway, I’ve given said tortillas a bit of texture and also whacked Kentish Town on there, seeing as though that’s where the restaurant is. Hack back some gaucamole and tequila before hitting the Forum. Or the Bull & Gate in the 90s for some Indie stars before they were famous.

I’d like to point put that – new or otherwise – I think these people are bastards. Just to get that clear. This page is not a hate crime. That’s the Nazis, I mean. Not people from Kentish Town. Though Giles Coren** does live there, so maybe.

*Rather unbelievably, the parody chief in the show was played by Tim Sampson, the son of the original chief from the 1975 film.

**To avoid anything libellous here, I would like to point out that I regard Giles Coren as merely a bastard, not a bastard Nazi.