OBEY RP
Fat Mat is not a man with a complicated backstory. He has, in fact, one of the simplest origin stories on the island, which is that he was found, as an infant, lying calmly in aisle six of a Tescos supermarket, directly next to the frozen pizza section.
Nobody on staff remembers a mother. Nobody on staff remembers a father. The CCTV footage of the day in question has, by some quiet miracle of supermarket-grade hard-drive failure, been overwritten. The pizza, the staff would later tell anyone who asked, was on offer.
He has, since the day he was discovered, only ever wanted one thing.
The parents (as understood)
For paperwork purposes, Fat Mat lists his parents as follows:
- Father: Tescos Frozen Section. He has visited him every week of his life since he was old enough to walk in on his own. He stands in front of the freezers for a long time. He speaks to no one. He eventually picks something out.
- Mother: Frozen Pizza. He has eaten her, in many forms, many times. He maintains that this is not strange, and that any son in his position would do the same.
He doesn't talk about how he feels about either of them. He considers feelings a thing you do after you've eaten.
The discovery
What we know is what the Tescos manager wrote down on the incident report and what has been retold around Britlife ever since.
A small, fully-clothed, suspiciously well-fed infant was found lying calmly on the floor of the supermarket's frozen aisle, beside an open chest freezer, looking up at a stack of fourteen-inch pepperonis with an expression the manager described as "alert and assessing."
The infant, when picked up, did not cry. He simply turned his head toward the freezer and pointed.
He has, in the manager's words, "been pointing ever since."
The phrase
There is one sentence that has trailed Fat Mat through every neighbourhood, every job interview, every queue at every fast-food window on the island. He says it the way other people say hello. He says it the way other people say goodbye. He says it, sometimes, in the middle of other conversations.
"Got any food?"
It is, depending on who you ask, an opener, a closer, a diagnostic question, a love language, and a statement of purpose. The regulars say they can predict which version it's going to be by the angle of his chin alone.
Likes
- Food.
Dislikes
- Not getting food.
Now
Fat Mat continues to walk the streets of the island. He continues to drift, in the gentle migratory way of a man whose nervous system runs on small regular inputs of carbohydrate, toward whichever business is currently serving a hot lunch.
The frozen aisle, he visits sentimentally. He doesn't buy from it. He just stands there a moment, the way other people stand at a grave.
Then he turns to whoever is nearest, and he asks the question.
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