Curry house owner fixes pothole with 18in naan bread
A curry house owner switched his focus from poppadoms to potholes as he used an 18-inch naan bread to fill up a crater in a protest against an upmarket village's poor roads.
Farhan Hussain, 26, said there were around nine deep potholes on a 0.4 mile stretch of road outside his Bangladeshi takeaway in Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire.
The owner of Shelford Spice laid his signature huge naan bread into one of the potholes and it even survived a drive-over by a passing car.
Farhan joked it was now the “hardest working naan in the village” and said it was a “light-hearted” way to get the council to fix the road.
He explained: "It's a point of long-term frustration in the village. It's a small little road but it's like navigating through a swamp of potholes.
"Customers regularly tell us how bad the road is, that it's uninviting and not safe. As a local business that pays rates and serves customers every day, we want to see our roads being upkept to a good standard. People aren't looking for quick fixes."
Great Shelford, four miles south of Cambridge, is home to more than 4,000 people and has a wine bar, delicatessen and a bakery.
The restaurant, which serves an 18-inch plain naan bread for £7.60, is on Woollards Lane in the village which was voted one of the best places to live in the UK earlier this year.
Farhan added: "We care about our village and so do the residents. This is a little gesture from us, creating a bit of noise, to put what our community wants out there."
After posting the video to social media, some commenters accused Farhan of wasting the naan.
However he said he takes food wastage seriously and that the bread was fed to ducks and seagulls at a nearby river.
Farhan added: "The naan bread was not wasted. We're very mindful - we even put a bit of cardboard underneath the naan so it wouldn't touch the road."