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To be frank. I hadn't baked a lot previously and I had this idea for a takeaway pudding company and it just sort of

evolved to it being a mobile van that's an urban station which happened to be one of the busiest in the country.

For more than a decade at the food program, the arrival of summer has meant one thing.

The start of our annual search for a group of special people, people like Johnny Shepard.

I remember driving up on the first night and just thinking, is anybody going to even stop?

Am I going to make any money

what happens though I don't sell anything

just looking like an idiot stood in a van

and just remarkably people embraced it

because he's so well made that it just ignites the whole kind of love of old

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