Just to make it clear

"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink."

Wednesday, 31 October 2012

Four dishes for the price of six

I noticed this menu at a nearby pub a while ago. Pity the poor haddock and cheesecake, listed a mere once each.

Posted by N J Mayes at 12:18
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