The man who invented Tunnocks Teacakes has been knighted.



And his name really is Mr Tunnock.

Wacky!

If he's been knighted then the bloke who invented Tunnocks caramel wafers should be made supreme monarch for life.

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The soft drink brand Lilt - famously advertised for its "totally tropical taste" - is being scrapped after 50 years and rebranded.




From Tuesday it will be known as Fanta Pineapple & Grapefruit, according to its owner the Coca Cola Company.

The firm stressed the drink's taste and ingredients would not change.

But fans - many of whom appeared to associate Lilt with memories of their youth - took to social media to express their dismay.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64629080

And on that note, I just started singing "Here comes the Lilt Man - Lilt!" to myself and had to seek it out of the first time in a long time.

I think they're also changing Fanta in some way.

The Lilt man will be out of a job then.

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But fans - many of whom appeared to associate Lilt with memories of their youth - took to social media to express their dismay.

Feck orf Aunty Beeb.

You're getting fainter.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/feb/14/lilt-vanish-uk-rebranded-totally-tropical-fanta-taste

This has upset me. My great gran, late of the Peckham parish, loved Lilt.

Fangirl Three wrote:

You're getting fainter.

You said that with a lovely inflection in your voice.

Man facing jail over theft of almost 200,000 Cadbury Creme Eggs

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Joby Pool used a stolen tractor to tow away the chocolate and is expected to be imprisoned for about two years

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/feb/14/man-facing-jail-over-theft-of-almost-200000-cadbury-creme-eggs

I thought he'd just be bound ova.

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‘Don’t cook cheese on toast in sideways toasters’, London Fire Brigade warns after blaze at university halls

A fire broke out at halls in south-east London after a student tried the ‘unsafe’ method

LFB said the blaze began when a student attempted to make cheese on toast inside a toaster that had been placed on its side, then left the room.

Around 25 firefighters spent approximately 40 minutes tackling the fire, which was under control by about 11.20am.

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It is not the first time LFB has been forced to issue a warning about the method of cooking cheese on toast

In 2015, it urged people not to use the technique after celebrity chef Jamie Oliver mentioned it in a Guardian article about making toast.

“In the past, I have turned the toaster on its side, put cheese on bread and slid it in so it toasts on one side and melts on the other,” he wrote in the piece.

“It’s a bit of a jiggle but it works.”

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/toaster-grilled-cheese-fire-avery-hill-jamie-oliver-b1060242.html


A toaster on fire, yesterday

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Italian restaurant charges customer €2 to cut a sandwich in half

An Italian cafe has gone viral after slapping a surcharge on a patron who wanted to share his lunch with his girlfriend. But there’s more to it than mere effrontery

The customer just wanted to share the sandwich with his girlfriend, but when the bill arrived it listed the mysterious service “diviso a metà” at the price of €2.

A snapshot of the receipt went viral, prompting Italian newspapers to question the owner of the cafe – Bar Pace in Lake Como – who defended the surcharge. “To cut it in half took us some time, and work must be paid for,” she said.

An authentic Italian lattuga de la Hovis sandwich being cutted by an coltello, yesterday.

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2023/aug/09/secret-restaurant-costs-is-it-outrageous-to-charge-2-to-cut-a-sandwich-in-half

I saw that. Didn’t click on it. What kind of useless idiot would ask a waiter to do that in a cafe anyway? I wouldn’t dream of insulting or otherwise wasting the staff’s time. There must’ve been a knife on the table. Any halfwit would’ve just done it themselves. The customer deserved to be confronted with an equally cheeky response, and they have been. And now they’re moaning about it.

We’re totally TeamComoCafe here. I hope the couple were barred.

As a 40+ myself I’ll use one of the few advantages of age, and securely tut that this pampered pair were definitely under 40. Everyone else is au fait with customs like cutlery and other peoples time, and we have been for centuries.

Well? I’m right. ‘Can you cut my meal up for me?’ is not a reasonable request from an able bodied adult.