Welsh Casino offers meal to help smokers rediscover taste buds
April 3rd, 2007
A report today on the icWales website states that a casino is dishing up richly flavoured food to help Wales' smokers rediscover their taste buds and curb their cravings.
As the smoking ban came into force yesterday, Grosvenor Casino Atlantic Wharf, in Cardiff, unveiled its menu of spicy Welsh lamb, pomegranate and gogi berries.
The "Light-en Up" menu has been devised to ensure customers still have a good night out, even if they cannot smoke inside.
The three-course menu, created in conjunction with nutritionist Helena Hall, is packed full of nutritious and exotic ingredients to help smokers combat cravings as well as helping the 19% of people who have already committed to quitting get to grips with any withdrawal symptoms and reinvigorate their taste buds.
The starter of avocado, roasted red pepper and baby spinach salad topped with a soft poached egg and toasted pumpkin seeds features a sweet gogi berry dressing. Gogi berries are considered to be the most nutritionally rich fruit on the planet and are full of antioxidants, vitamins, and amino acids.
The spicy main course of Kashmiri-braised Welsh lamb shank and South Indian vegetables, spiced with asafoetida, is designed to resurrect smokers' 5,000 forgotten taste buds. Asafoetida also has a powerful neutralising effect on toxic minerals caused by cigarettes.
This may be the way to continue to attract ‘smokers’ to the casino, but with the starter and dessert costing £4 each, and the main costing £10.99, one would wonder how many people could afford to pay these extra costs on a regular basis.
Recent smoking bans in UK bingo halls have seen many lovers of the game turning to online bingo games, which are as much fun, have great payouts, and for those who like to play more for the social aspect of the game, most online bingo games such as those provided by Bingo Entertainment, have chat capability with friendly chat masters there to welcome and guide new-comers. And of course you will never see a ‘no smoking’ sign.
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