[Default] On Sat, 21 Apr 2007 11:49:45 +0100, Martin Phillips <[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::
>In Spanish supermarkets there now seems to be a good trade in mock >elver, or "gulas" as they are called. Presumably this is a contraction >of the Spanish word for elver, which currently escapes me but is >something like anguilla, which is Latin for eel. They're made of the >same stuff as crab sticks, being basically reprocessed fish finger. OK, I know I'm going to regret this, but what ARE crab sticks made from? Not crab, I'll be bound! Brian L Dominic Web Sites: Canals: http://www.brianscanalpages.co.uk Friends of the Cromford Canal: http://www.cromfordcanal.org.uk (Waterways World Site of the Month, November 2005)
