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Industrial Barmbrack: the reference to the Cheesecake Factory should be evident, but you might not know that barmbrack is a traditional Irish dessert bread. Its name derives from the Irish language and roughly translates as “speckled bread”, because it is made with raisins, sultanas, and currants, giving it a speckled look when you slice into it. So says Wikipedia. I thought this would be a silly substitution for cheesecake in Fetch’s Otherworld, and kinda appropriate; the Irish make barmbrack a central part of their Halloween celebrations, and Halloween is deeply rooted in Samhain and other Celtic traditions related to the Otherworld.

Look, man, it all ties together!

Or is all loosely associated. Whichever. It works with the themes of gentrification and displacement I’m working with, too, as what better symbolizes late capitalist suburban sprawl than the Cheesecake Factory?