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Saturday, January 17, 2026

On the fritz



So far as days of the week dinners (C8) go, Steve Cornelius of Brookvale says “everybody is aware of Monday’s washing day, Tuesday’s soup, Wednesday’s roast beef, Thursday’s shepherd’s pie, Friday’s fish, Saturday’s pay day, Sunday’s church. Is all people ’appy? Yer guess yer life we’re!”

Joanne Malpas of Hughes (ACT) provides considered one of her personal frugal dinner tales (C8). “My childhood dinners have been typically devised by my Dad who was exceptionally inventive in rustling up one thing cheap for our household of seven. His greatest effort was the traditional ‘fritz fried rice’, with good previous South Australian fritz cubes stir-fried in soy sauce because the meal’s protein element. I used to be quite a bit older earlier than I found that this was not a recipe that appeared in everybody’s household recipe collections.”

For anybody hoping for one more Stuart Restoration (C8), Peter Wotton of Pyrmont factors out that “the Hanoverians have been really fiftieth in line for the succession to the English throne. All of the others, together with the Stuarts, have been Roman Catholic or had Roman Catholic connections”, which by regulation excludes them from the English throne. Nothing like a bit of excellent, old school sectarian hatred to place you in your house!

Visiting mates in Vancouver, Martin Harrison of Albion Park Rail was “invited to the Gulf Islands to assist collect clams for the clam chowder that was their speciality. A really prepared participant, I used to be thrilled once they advised me I may use the ‘clam gun’ to deliver the clams to the floor for assortment. On arrival, they handed me a spade (C8), telling me it was loaded.”

Narayan Mukkavilli of Winston Hills was “as soon as directed by my CEO to buy the most cost effective, most revolting bottle of wine (C8) I may discover to divulge to the chief who had completed the least preparation and made the worst presentation on the annual planning assembly. The award was gained by a woman who had not learn the agenda, or the notes, and had no presentation, and even ideas, to supply. To her credit score, that bottle was displayed in delight of place on her cubicle for a lot of months afterwards.”

Chris Might of Queanbeyan was a part of a bunch of excellent mates who years in the past “made a marriage pressie pact that, no matter else you gave, you have to additionally give a hideous vase. It should all the time be on show when one other of the group visited. If it wasn’t an much more hideous and bigger vase was bought for show.”

Column8@smh.com.au

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