Archive: 2023-01-01

  • Week 104: Never too old

    We ate the eleven-year-old Christmas pudding that I found in the cupboard. I opened it to check first – it looked fine – and soaked it all day in a glug of supermarket own-brand brandy to ensure that it was adequately hydrated. After an hour of steaming, it was delicious. Can a supermarket Christmas pudding ever be too old? We have not yet discovered the upper bound.

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  • Fire sacrifice

    You might have heard of the lemon pig, the World’s newest New Year tradition.

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