If you walk around the delightful ‘Shambles’ of the historic city of York, through the small cobbled street of timber-framed buildings huddled together, you’ll find more than over-priced cupcakes and novelty-sized Yorkshire Tea teapots. The Shambles was once known as The Great Flesh Shambles, having served as the butcher’s street – and meat hooks still survive where animal carcasses would have once hung. If you peer into the tiny touristy gift shops here you will see other bodies hanging; the small ‘kitsch’ outlines of golliwog dolls hanging lifelessly from display hooks in shopfront windows, like so many lynchings. This ‘taste’
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