Below the surface, the true meaning of the #fatberg lurks…
The spectre of the fatberg horrifies and fascinates us. Here’s why
You know it, I know it: the fatberg is having a moment. We are entering the age of the fatberg. Peak Fatberg is now. #fatberg is the hot new hashtag. The fatberg is the new black. And in a way this feels like a good thing, if only because it may briefly take pressure off people having to pretend they still care about Game of Thrones, or think up quirky new podcasts to recommend to their friends.
Last year, it was the sinkhole, the year before, it was something else. Today, it is the fatberg. These are the facts.
Yesterday, work begun to remove a ‘monster’ 64-metre-long fatberg which had been clogging up the sewer running under the seafront in the modest Devon, UK, resort of Sidmouth. How much is that in real money? Why, ‘bigger than six double-decker buses’, of course. Also, it is ‘larger than a JUMBO JET’. Thank heavens for standardised tabloid units of measurements — I never could get on with metric.
This is only the latest of many such apparitions, of course — one thinks of the ‘DEADLY’ ‘boulder-sized’ fatbergs invading Britain’s beaches from the Bermuda triangle of 2016, as reported in the Daily Star. The ‘horrifying’ ‘monster’ Whitechapel fatberg that…
