h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Well, yes, if they're being manufactured there, it's likely to be a British brand. Not like Poland is going to outsource its stock cube manufacture to England or something...

Point taken

There is a restaurant in London called The Oxo Tower, on the South Bank. It is so called because the building was originally used by the Oxo company, who put a big illuminated OXO vertically on the tower, which is still there today.

Various websites which allow users to post reviews of restaurants are regularly flooded with reviews of the Oxo Tower. A sample is shown here: http://www.london-eating.co.uk/review-comments/123446.htm

RF

Have to say well done RF As soon as he posted OXO, it was a real moment.

Maybe he simply read the PR thread

Nope. I went and looked in my larder. Oxo cubes were near the front.

RF

Oxo have recently been advertising "A new shaped cube". Mathematicians are having to rethink their entire lives work.

Do you have a pantry too?

Perhaps it's a hypercube! http://conflusions.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/4dcube.gif

>> Do you have a pantry too? <<

Sadly not. Nor a scullery.

And the larder's not really a larder.

RF

The BBC has a Huge Scullery

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/524714.stm

We had a scullery when I was a kid, complete with bunkers. No pantry or larder though (we used to put jelly on top of the toilet cistern overnight so it would set)

Now we've got a kitchen and fitted units

We have *three* pantries.

Wasn't there once a C of E vicar who was caught having an affair with one of his lady parishoners? They found his vest in her pantry and her pants in his vestry.

I have a sweet factory reminiscence I can share. In my youth I worked in the Rowntree-Hoadley factory in Coventry Street, Melbourne.

When I started I was given the job of Erikson Machine Supervisor. The machine was a set of refrigerated rollers with cup shaped depressions into which poured warm liquid chocolate. The result was chocolate balls which then were taken elsewhere for further processing.

To maximise efficiency the chocolate needed to fill all the depressions but to avoid damage to the machinery must not be allowed to overfill the machine. As warm chocolate is inconsistent in its flow characteristics, it was necessary to constantly monitor this.

For two weeks, that is ten eight hour days, I would:
Switch on the machine.
Turn on the chocolate tap.
Adjust the tap for maximum depression filling.
Watch the flow.
Every two to three minutes I would make a minor adjustment to the flow.
Repeat ad infinitum.

Over the years when I have been staring into space, or watching paint dry, or doing the most mundane of tasks, people have asked me, "Don't you ever get bored?"

I always reply "No, once upon a time I was an Erikson Machine Supervisor."

I spent a few months making cardboard boxes for a living. Or rather watching a machine make cardboard boxes. I never ever want to work on a production line again, and I am full of admiration for those who do it and remain sane.

hygienicdispenser

"I am full of admiration for those who do it and remain sane."

Ah yes; my starting point was always my big advantage

My worst job was in a fish factory, working from 4am to 10am solid, "tailing" prawns. Or should I say, ripping live prawns in half.

At 10am I moved on to gutting fish.

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