Sorry about that. I’m the same about throwing away food. I must admit I’ll risk most things but with dodgy fish I’ll veer on the side of caution.

In Paris I once had something like very similar filled with warm salmon mousse with dabs of dill sauce. Dear god they were good....

Len Deighton, the spy author, wrote and illustrated two tremendous cookbooks in the mid-60s, largely aimed at men, who of course at that time rarely cooked, and why so much was made of the fact that his lead character, Harry Palmer in the films, did. The books were Oú Est Le Garlic? and Action Cookbook, comprised of…

Whiskas. Now with added antenna!

Taste Test or GTFO, if that’s all right by you.

That headline would nicely fit the chorus of I Kissed A Girl, sort of....

If you like the space battles in Battle Beyond The Stars then check out Corman’s far cheaper ‘follow-up’ Space Raiders, which re-runs them all, often more than once, and one particular exploding spaceship turns up multiple times, not to mention an alien who has a large pair of cancerous balls behind his ears...

Chillo ice cream mix. Vesta Chow Mein (probably still made, haven’t seen it in years). The soft drink Cresta (years of vascular problems in one 330ml tin). That super-concentrated orange squash (Sunquest?) that you used about half an eggcup-ful to make a pint. If you put a drop of the undiluted stuff on your tongue it…

A girlfriend of mine was once offered a job on the trade paper Potato News. She showed me a couple of copies and I’ll bet it made Supermarket News look like the most action-packed graphic novel ever produced....

Freeview channel 50. From the beginning of October until about the middle of February.

In the UK we’ve had a TV channel become Sony Movies Christmas, Xmas movies 24 hours a day, since the first of sodding October! And last year it was still going at the beginning of February.

No Waldorf salad, or apple crumble / cobbler?

Allison, show us on the doll where the raisin touched you...

Danger To Man Driving The Car.

So, Thortal.

Where’s Drew Magery to throw his foul-mouthed two bits in?...

Always loved this....

The ‘Preventative Powders’ to forbid ‘a too rapid increase of family’ was in fact four pounds of sand, which the lady in need of such a service poured into a sock and hit her husband in the bollocks with it....

For cholesterol is that zero milligrams or OMG!

There is a Creepshow 3 but it’s nothing to do with Romero, or indeed anybody who knows how to make films. Ghastly, in all the wrong ways.