“Alan Marel’s recollection of strange potato crisp flavours (C8) he encountered travelling abroad jogged my memory of the lamb flavoured crisps I as soon as ate whereas in Argentina,” says Tim Ingall of Scottsdale, Arizona (US). “Disgusting is essentially the most well mannered phrase I can use to explain the style.” Higher persist with the Poore Brothers, Tim.
One other side of Alan’s put up that garnered nostalgic consideration was the point out of the whinberry: “I used to be by no means certain of the spelling however cherished amassing and/or consuming them in season within the Nineteen Fifties from the Moors above Oldham, Lancashire,” recollects Lilian Andrew of Mosman. “And the pie, if sufficient have been left, bliss.” And regardless of typically going by the title European blueberries, each Josephine Hill of Blackwall and Judith Lowe of Whale Seashore say they’ve far more flavour than your commonplace blueberry.
“All of continental Europe eats horsemeat (C8) in the identical method it eats cows, pigs and rabbits,” claims Roderick van Gelder of Hunters Hill. “The Dutch delicacy of smoked horsemeat is a private favorite of mine. It appears to be an Anglo Saxon downside to eat the horses, possibly too near the Royal household?”
“If I recall accurately, Mike Tyson fancied a pleasant little bit of ear”. We thank Don Bain of Port Macquarie.
John Swanton of Coogee has seen “many pedestrians nonetheless utilizing their elbows to press the button to cross the road. I used to be questioning, do they wash their elbows after they get dwelling? And has somebody marketed elbow sanitiser?”
“I’m now in my 98th yr and nonetheless bear in mind my mother and father taking me to the opening of the Harbour Bridge on nineteenth March 1932,” says Thelma Marks of Level Clare. “The crowds have been big, and I’ve vivid recollections of the rear of the individual in entrance of me. The crush getting again dwelling on the prepare was fairly scary for a five-year-old. I did return to do the bridge stroll in my ’70s, this time with a greater view! Is there anybody else on the market who was there on opening day?”
Pleasure Cooksey of Harrington wonders if Meri Will’s Jesus chicken (C8) “is all the time surrounded by a flock of apostlebirds?”
“Within the occasional Scottish Highlands resort you’ll come throughout a restroom door (C8) exhibiting a determine in a gown, and one other exhibiting an nearly an identical determine in a kilt,” writes Jim Dewar of Davistown. “A wee problem for the weary traveller.”
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