Weak I know, but I couldn't resist. This was out west a couple of weeks ago. Exile #2 and Exile #4 are going out that way again tomorrow to meet up with the rest of Pre-K for a field-trip. They're going apple-picking. It's all the rage around here, like pick-your-own strawberries. But with trees. And apples. And without the strawberries. Well, you get the idea.Having picked the apples they make cider and give it to the children. They also put it in doughnuts apparently. Strange lot. (American readers, please click here)
The cheap pun does remind me that this post caused some interest due to my use of the word octopuses. For the record: I was right but octopi is also acceptable (if logically flawed) and octopodes is etymologically correct but just plain silly (unless you're in Greece perhaps).
Well I never...I hate to think what the reaction would be if I ordered scrumpy in a bar in the states...
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In my ignorance, I recently asked a girl on a market stall if the "cider donuts" she was selling were alcoholic, because I was driving. She looked slightly stunned at the question.
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Now 'hard cider donuts' would be either alcoholic or two days old presumably (or both).
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