Wolverhampton is one of those charming, metropolitan villages that dot the British countryside. The city – England’s 13th largest - is home to one of Great Britain’s oldest football clubs, the Royal Air Force Museum, quite a few notable historic and political figures and Jaswinder Singh, owner of the Kebab shop, Pappu Sweet Centre.
Jaswinder, it seems, was assembling a lunch counter full of his patented kebabs when police, investigating the death of a restaurant worker, showed up at Pappu.
There, on a sofa in the kitchen where Singh was practicing his culinary majesty, the cops discovered the body of the dead employee.
Now, I know that you’re wondering why there was a sofa in the kitchen, but a few other questions should probably get higher priority.
Like did they close the business immediately? Yes, Wolverhampton authorities shut him down post haste, but how nauseous do you suppose previous customers were feeling after that little bit of news broke?
Still, the most inquisitive would like to know why, after thousands of dollars in fines for previous health violations (such as a dead rat under a cooking pot, citations for smoking in the kitchen and for the presence of bloody meat covered in flies), this not-so-Sweet Pappu would still be feeding the public?
In the interest of full disclosure, Singh has been banned from ever working in the food industry again, and police reported that the employee’s death had not been found to be suspicious.
Just the same, I’ll never order ‘meat curry’ again.