source : the age
“Those who can remember bottles of soft drink in the 1950s might recall Orange Delight and Lemonade Delight, both having tiny flecks of fruit floating in the bottle,” writes David Sayers of Gwandalan. “The fruit was the ‘delight’. My school had a guided tour of the soft-drink factory back then, when I noticed hundreds of bags of potatoes piled up. When I asked our guide what they were for, he replied ‘They’re the fruit flecks in the orange and lemonade delight’. Was nothing sacred, even back then?”
“Chris Henning’s musings upon Food Truck One (C8) got me wondering what the spécialité de jour might have been,” considers Paul Koff of Glenhaven. “A king-sized portion of tripe, baloney and waffle, perhaps?”
Regarding yesterday’s reference to Imam Khomeini International, Granny needs to correct herself: McDonald’s pulled out of Iran in 1979, mostly due to the Islamic Revolution, but visitors can sample the local version, Mash Donald’s.
Peter Miniutti of Ashbury knows how to kill an appetite: “I wonder how Trump managed to change his nappy whilst confined in Food Truck One? I guess when drinks were served it was bottoms up.”
On the week of his birthday, we’re not sure what’s behind the pile-on directed at the late Robert Redford (C8), but Pasquale Vartuli of Pennant Hills is another to Sundance on his grave: “I thought Redford’s movie Downhill Racer was the worst film ever. Looks like I might be wrong.”
“My wife and I received an email purporting to be from ANZ asking us to verify our account details in accordance with a ‘legal requirement’,” says Malcolm McEwen of North Turramurra. “A disclaimer at the end read: ‘ANZ will not email or SMS you, asking you to verify or provide account details’. We called into our local branch and were told the email was genuine. When we pointed out the conflict between request and disclaimer, we got a shrug and a giggle. It was from a bank, after all.”
Nola Tucker of Kiama points out that “over the years I have practised yoga and tai chi and have a great-granddaughter who does some mean karate, but I had not come across the latest fad, ‘Japan’s Shoplifting Pensioners’ as featured on TV recently. Does it take a lot of skill or physical preparedness? Does it help to have Ninja training? Do they warm up with small boutiques? What is its future?”
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