The Hogless Roast, Walthamstow (no more bean burgers!)
The Hogless Roast (Walthamstow, London) is a takeaway diner, set up by two young men who went vegan but ‘couldn’t take any more bean burgers!’ It offers a wide range of meaty-tasting delights, and uses profits to help build barns at Goodheart Animal Sanctuaries.
It also offers catering services, including for events weddings. As an alternative to a hog roast. Its mascot piglet Hoggles is inspiring Londoners to try something better! This duo is gradually ‘converting all the carnivores’ at events nationwide.
Order online for collection or delivery (student discounts available).
The menu includes:
- Hogless burger!
- Smash ‘cheeseburger’
- Hogless loaded fries
- Buffalo ‘chicken’
- Caesar salad or wrap
- Tater tots
- ‘Chicken’ nuggets
Why choose hogless meats?
Most pig meat is from factory farms. And in a country of 67 million people, there is not enough land for everyone to eat free-range meat. If pigs were not bred for the meat industry, fewer would be born. And remaining pigs could then live out their lives in peace (natural breeding would still occur, just not on the same as now).
Bacon and pork are also high in saturated fats, cholesterol and chemicals used to flavour them. Going hogless means you can enjoy these tasty meals, which are not just animal-kind but also far lower in fat and cholesterol-free. So you can eat more of them!
Why pigs are brilliant!
Pigs are such wonderful mothers, they sing to their piglets) are also very clean animals. They will build a nest and walk up to a mile to go to the toilet. They are so brainy, they are up there with dolphins and chimpanzees.
They have strong bonds and will sleep nose-to-nose with other pigs, and use their sensitive snouts to forage for food (as eyes are on the sides of their heads, they have poor depth perception though can see a 310 panoramic view).
Pigs can’t sweat, which is why they roll in mud. Only domestic pigs have curly tails! And in the wild, pigs can live to be up to 20 years old
Fun facts about Walthamstow
The Hogless Roast is based in the East London borough of Walthamstow. Home to Europe’s longest-serving outdoor market, it was also birthplace of the modern bicycle! Local inventor John Kemp Starley creatd the design for bikes on two wheels, which is why we are no longer riding around on Penny Farthings!
Notable people from here include England’s top footballer Harry Kane and the Brit pop band East 17 (named after their local postcode!)
Walthamstow Hall independent school started off to house and educate daughters of Christian missionaries working overseas. Set up in 1838 by Dorothea Fulger, it moved to its current location of Sevenoaks (Kent) to a larger site, due to the founder’s daughter (Mary Anne Lydia Pye-Smith) living there, offering a personal link.
