[Default] On Wed, 7 Jun 2006 22:10:17 +0100, Captain Beeky
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  finished tucking into their plate of
fish, chips and mushy peas. Wiping their mouth, they swiggged the last
of their cup of tea, paid the bill and wrote::

>It's a peculiar ritual to prepare and 
>serve these things. Remove the lid with a tin opener to reveal a yellow 
>glutinous layer which becomes "the pastry". Pop the tin on a tray in a 
>hot oven for half an hour and the thing errupts into an extravagant 
>browning mass. Now try to get it on a plate. It's very hot, very sticky 
>and reluctant to be parted from it's tin. Eventually it is juggled onto 
>the plate with the filling on top of the mound of pastry.
>
Why on earth did you take it out of the tin? If I was on my own, I'd
have saved the washing up!

Brian L Dominic

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