Cutting slabs - follow-up.

In your dreams.

On your planet no, but on Earth plenty do.

You have to be kidding, although there are a fair number of queens among the cabin crews.

I did sit next to David Owen once on one of their aeroplanes but I don't think that would count.

Sitting opposite Princess Mette-Marit on an SAS flight was the aristocratic experience.

Mind you, BA do quite often seem to manage to deliver luggage using different aircraft.

No accounting for taste.

Laying eggs?

Very partial to a helping of bratwurst - Aldi do a very nice one.

Nothing wrong in liking cockles Andy, but a man with your wealth should really have more class...

The sad thing is that even allegedly pretty good restaurants take perfectly good ingredients and wreck them.

This even extends to many ethnic restaurants.

The only things that I have found to reasonable are Italian places actually run by `italians, otherwise it's pretty desperate. For the last several years, the German restaurant have had massive drops in sales and the drop in quality is noticable.

Not that many outside Germany, otherwise there'd be MacFritz's restaurants on every high street.

Owain

I think that you're getting confused with oysters and their origin.

I think you are a pompous ass on an ego trip!

Oh dear. That really does show how little that you know about shellfish and their humble history

Traditionally, all of the available shellfish types were sold together as subsistence food as witness some of the very basic Victorian dishes using them viz. the East End eel, pie and oyster shops.

Much of the stupid British attitude to seafood in general and oysters in particular came about as a result of Britain's own oyster industry being largely screwed up in the early years of the last century.

My wife just picks em up off the beach and eats them. Yuk.

Well, there used to be a chain of burger places in Israel called McDavids (shameless copy of the yellow arches). I don't think they are there any longer. They had kosher cheeseburgers, IIRC. I never figured out how that could be achieved.

Hasn't she convinced you that they are not just salty snot then? :-)

Soya 'cheese' product?

I figured that it would have to be vegetable something......

Well I don't know. Now that Skodas include the engine as part of the deal, the difference may not be so much