Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs To start the week but finish with Morse Code, David Swain of Glenhaven wants it known that, “We can’t leave without mentioning Beethoven. His 5th Symphony opening (da da da DAAH) translates as V, and during the war it was known as the Victory Symphony.”More tech memories, this time from Janice Creenaune of Austinmer, who writes, apropos of Thursday’s Col8, “Roneo and Gestetner books were rarely read, just smelled (while the smell lasted). A mimeograph was another machine often used in schools. Most of us ‘over-dosed’ on the methanol and isopropanol used in the ‘inking’ process. Teachers only of course, students were never encouraged.” That explains all that giggling from the staff rooms, no doubt.Moving back to food, Mary Carde of Parrearra in Queensland says,“My mother often served up a simple dish with the curious name Mock Fish (a forebear to today’s hash brown), which went down a treat smothered in tomato sauce. Why that name was cooked up I have no idea as they bore no resemblance to any sea creature. I am, however, forever grateful that kale chips had not been invented then.” Would that they had never been, Mary.Andy Latta of Arncliffe says, “In response to Craig Henderson’s recollection of not eating passionfruit as a child [Col8 Thursday], I note that, as kids, we used to refer to passionfruit icing on cakes as ‘flies in custard’.”A hopeful Barry Galbraith of Cranebrook adds, “Along with chocolate coated peanuts, I’ve heard it said that chocolate coated sultanas count as fruit.”Tim Ingall of Scottsdale, Arizona (Yes, Col8’s reach is far) would like to match Nick Walker’s black pudding flavoured crisps (Col8 Thursday) with lamb flavoured crisps in Argentina, which he says are just as bad. Col8 notes that no one yet has defended the black pudding crisps, although Llewellyn Dickeson of Culburra Beach reports that, “Back in 2015 when travelling around Scotland, we tried Haggis and Cracked Black Pepper Potato Crisps while on a Loch Ness cruise. They were surprisingly tasty.”Susan Bradley’s defence of bobotie (Col 8 Thursday), though, cuts no ice with Col Burns of Lugarno, who writes, “Susan Bradley admits that she, ‘lost the cookery book, but I cooked it several times’. I have tried bobotie, and I agree that baked paper may be tastier.”To follow Friday’s Easter eggs, Joshua Steele of Denhams Beach reports, “I spotted hot cross buns at my local Woolies on December 24th. Can anyone beat that?”[email protected] attachments, please. Include
