There was comedy, music, dancing, fresh hog, pints for a pound, broth and bread and more hog.
The queues outside Easington Colliery Club were reminiscent of those lining up for broth and bread 29 years ago during the miners' strike.
Trocchi himself called shooting up an act of "systematic nihilism" which "threw a purposive spoon into the broth of experience".
So the collider is about to resume its journey back in time, to probe the strange forces and entities that must have existed in some dense, hot, viscous broth that filled the nascent universe, before ordinary matter started to precipitate, as space started to expand and time to tick.
And in a sign that things might already be getting out of hand, bone broth is linked to a fad diet (followers of the Paleo diet are especially keen) and there's a pet food spin-off, aimed at presumably outrageously pampered cats.
Bone broth, made by boiling bones, meat and sundry herbs and spices for up to 48 hours, is essentially stock, but made fashionable in the US by being sold in cups from New York's Brodo and Portland's Jola Cafe, among others.
New King's speciality is roasted duck: its skin is so crisp you could cut your finger on it, and it's served with broth with hints of aniseed.
Wide choice of pasta and risottos, plus more substantial mains such as warm salad of lamb rump and Gressingham duck with puy lentils and herb broth.
Though all-you-can-eat buffets still abound, a growing band of pioneers now flaunt good food, cooked right: not just standards from Canton or Sichuan, but Shanghainese dumplings (bursting with ginger-scented broth) or Taiwan's finest stew, "three cups" chicken.Amid the new opportunities, however, some veterans are struggling.
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One night, after eating his usual austere supper, with his sisters, of chicken broth, white rice, salad and milk pudding, the President fainted when he stood up to go to bed.
