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

It's really not as awful as it sounds and looks.

Dad wouldn't have any 'such rubbish as tinned beef' on his table!


One day mum went to visit my nan and forgot the time. She was supposed to be making a casserole for tea. On the way home she bought a tin of beef in gravy, and when she got home, she added potatoes, carrots, mushrooms and onions - with a little extra gravy to take away the flavour of the tinned gravy - put the tinned beef on top, and popped it into the oven.

20 minutes later dad came in and said the casserole could be smelt down the street (this is a compliment, by the way).. A short time later, he was eating the meal and commented that it was the 'best casserole he has tasted'!

To this day dad still doesn't know about that meal, nor does he realise how often mum did the same thing

Cunning.

i am appalled

lobscous in a tin?

sacrilege!


























it should of course come in a plastic bag

I don't see what you're aiming at.

my super market sells big 'sausages' of plastic filled with stuff like lobscous, yellow pea soup, rice porridge and the like

i must admit i like it

hardly ever buy the rice porridge though

But how do you open those without making a big mess?

With a sharp knife, on a plate.

actually i use kitchen scissors - but a plate or a bowl is indeed much needed for the operation!