Chicken Connoisseur YouTuber: Knife crime warnings racist
A YouTube star, famous for his reviews of chicken shops, has criticised the government's decision to feature knife crime warnings on takeaway boxes.
more than 321,000 takeway chicken boxes printed with anti-knife slogans would replace standard packaging as part of its #KnifeFree campaign. Mr Quashie rose to fame through his YouTube series the Pengest Munch, which has had 50 million views. Started in 2015, it features reviews of chicken shops in London assessing every detail from the seating, to the chips and how the burger is put together.
"There's no particular diplomacy. If it's good, it's good if it's not - I make sure people know," the 26-year-old says.He is just as direct in his assessment of the businesses behind the anti-knife crime campaign. Three of the UK's biggest chicken chains are involved - Morleys, Dixy Chicken and Chicken Cottage.
"Making the presumption that any one strategy alone, however big or small can tackle an endemic problem such as knife crime is naive at best, and politicising an issue that's ripping the heart out of this country is misplaced and counterproductive," it said in a statement.'It's just a chicken box'"If something real happens, the chicken box unfortunately is not really going to weigh up.
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