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In a Pickle…A Quintessentially English Affair

June 12, 2011

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In a pickle” appears in The Tempest (Act 5, scene 1) Shakespeare; a related form appears in Antony and Cleopatra (Act 2, scene 5). Thomas Tusser (an English farmer and poet) had advised, in 1573, that the husbandman “Reap barley with sickle, that lies in ill pickle.”

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The Ultimate Fish Finger Sandwich

October 18, 2010

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Legend has it since the 11th September 1894, the day on which Barry Fishfinger was credited for constructing the world’s very first fish finger sandwich, this age-old tradition has been passed on through generations to spawn new variations and permutations which can only endeavour to pay homage to his humble legacy. In the United Kingdom in the 1930s, most of the […]