BBC canteen (and its patrons) mocked by satirical Twitter feed
The BBC Television Centre canteen, butt of jokes as to the suspect quality of its fare, has become the latest subject of a mystery Twitter feed.
An anonymous yet remarkably well informed fly on the wall has been regaling tweeters with a spate of anecdotes and observations from the staff canteen under the pseudonym – “The Killing Station”.
Posing as the canteen manager the author tweeted of the BBCs economics correspondent Stephanie Flanders: “She had 30 bags of lapsang souchong in her knickers and only wanted to pay for a hot water. Talent! think they can get away with anything.”
Flanders colleague, Robert Peston, has similarly been caricatured as economically illiterate with quips such as: “Had that Peston in here the other day. Short-changed him. He didn't notice.”
The BBCs Royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell came in for similarly abrupt treatment with a tweet saying: “I'm not saying Nicholas Witchell is small but he just walked out of here carrying his cheese and onion crisps like a sack of coal.”