The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place

[ahinton]

'Tes a pasty with a dash of Worcester Sauce, my 'andsome.

What, Lea & Pérotin?

Well, I suppose that there are broad heaths in Cornwall...

Whilst somewhat off-topic, I was once asked in a Herefordshire pub if I wanted Worcester sauce with my tomato juice and replied "you mean that stuff's legal here?"...

That's the third coat I've put on today; winter must be around the corner...

[Bryn]

The Cornish pasty (Oggy to the cognoscenti and anyone who plays rugby) has protected status, is crimped and oval. A top crimped pasty cannot legally be called 'Cornish'.

That's exciting isn't it zzzzzzz

The pastry may be oval, or circular, prior to being filled, folded and crimped, but the resulting pasty is not oval, it takes two, back to back, to make an oval.

[Serial_Apologist]

What, Lea & Pérotin?

Well, I suppose that there are broad heaths in Cornwall...

Whilst somewhat off-topic, I was once asked in a Herefordshire pub if I wanted Worcester sauce with my tomato juice and replied "you mean that stuff's legal here?"...

That's the third coat I've put on today; winter must be around the corner...

When I was at a boarding school in Surrey back in the 1950s, my parents would take me to the genteel Angel Hotel in Guildford for a slap up lunch, preceded by cocktails in the olde worlde downstaitrs lounge, presided over by a waiter who had both the bearing and plastered back midway parted hairstyle of a Jeeves-type butler from the 1920s. I remember one one occasion, my father asking for a Bloody Mary. "A Bloody Mary, Sir? Very good, Sir. And would Sir like his Bloody Mary... with?" On the following occasion, on being made the same request, he said, with the same straight face, "and I take it that Sir would like to have his Bloody Mary with, as last time?"

[cloughie]

Clemmy has moved to R4 - Front Row. Also encouraging Twitterers there!

[french frank]

Also encouraging Twitterers there!

It does give presenters something else to do which I'm sure they enjoy. They are unaware of the eye-rolling and sucking on teeth which it provokes from other members of their audience.

[Old Grumpy]

One piece of good news this morning anyway...


Skellers is in - yay!

And on sparkling form

[antongould]

One piece of good news this morning anyway...


Skellers is in - yay!

And on sparkling form

Indeed .......

[Sir Velo]

One piece of good news this morning anyway...


Skellers is in - yay!

And on sparkling form

And playing...The Four Seasons, and Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy - how original!

[Serial_Apologist]

One piece of good news this morning anyway...

The only bit.

[Old Grumpy]

The only bit.

Exactly

OG

[french frank]

And playing...The Four Seasons, and Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy - how original!

And finished with Tchaikovsky's R&J fantasy overture to lead into Essential Classics. But the rest of the playlist is not at all dire.

[underthecountertenor]

But the rest of the playlist is not at all dire.

Indeed, and the slow movement from Beethoven Op. 132 was exactly the balm this soul needed just after 7 this morning.

Not to mention that Skelly's impish near-references to what had happened overnight made me laugh despite everything.

[Sir Velo]

Indeed, and the slow movement from Beethoven Op. 132 was exactly the balm this soul needed just after 7 this morning.

You didn't want to hear the other movements then?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Not to mention that Skelly's impish near-references to what had happened overnight made me laugh despite everything.

- and his comment "somebody has found a good use for all those tweets at last."

The Vivaldi was a track error - we were expecting a Bullfinch - and the Sugar Plums came courtesy of Duke Ellington, so not entirely unoriginal. (I have to concede that Grieg's In Autumn was pretty dire, though: Gade was spot on.)

[vinteuil]

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I always thort it were a goldfinch...