After a couple of sips you won’t care.

early 21st century beer is considered undrinkable by today’s standards.

If you have a cold, boiling up some Barley Wine with honey and lemon is pretty soothing.

I used to live in an area where the local council pioneered using chip fat to fuel vehicles. In the early days you knew when they were driving past. IIRC several supermarkets and the likes of McDonald’s have followed in their footsteps.   

I got 22/33.

the portion of the population that experiences cilantro as a soapy taste

Reminds me of one of those rubber face hand puppet things.

I was eating oysters the other day so might not be able to comment on the desirability of wet cheeseburgers.

I’ll stick with a Wimpy Bender pleaser.

You should see what a Kellogg’s Sugar Smacks Thunderbirds figure fetches on ebay these days.

Looks more like cheese rolls.

Who was the chef at Bunkington Hall I wonder?

Not Grandma Tracey by all accounts. Let me munch on something from the Jam Butty Mines of Knotty Ash while I consider the options.

The real Sweeney was rather wasteful. Far from letting Mrs Lovett make pies, he just dumped his victims in the St Dunstan-in-the-West crypt (and the resulting smell is how they caught him).

Talking of quirks, why do you mainly say “fork and knife” rather than “knife and fork”? Silver service not your forte?

I was going to say it can’t be real Dungeness crab unless it is radioactive and glows in the dark, but I’m confusing the place with the original. Still, radiation might explain this hairy crab ...

Is it called Colin or Cuthbert?

On occasion, yes. Depends on how I feel or where I am. Currently, I have a bit of a debate going with my significant other because I’m quite happy eating takeaway fish’n’chips with my fingers. If I cook it myself then a knife and fork comes into play. 

Back in the Eighties, Dr Rob Buckman, late of The Pink Medicine Show was diagnosed with an auto immune disease which was nearly fatal. He made a documentary about his and others’ experience of such conditions, Your Own Worst Enemy. One of the people interviewed was a fellow who had to eat nearly raw liver as a counter…