Half mile/Borderline vowel shift

[hirez]

'Dargon Taxis' sound like the sort of firm you'd ring up when you got bored with your runequest and wanted to slope off down the pubbe (Three lads wenten to a pubbe/and gleefully their hands began to rub) for a swift flagon.

"Mount Doom at this time of night? Yer 'avin a right larf, etc."

(Well, I laughed)

Most of our bread flour comes from the Wessex Mill in Wantage (there's probably a closer source. I have investigated carelessly) and arrives in nice white bags with string-knitting stitched across the top.

When I was much younger and mater baked large numbers of bread products, the flour came in big sacks with similarly knitted string. If you found the right end to pull, it would un-knit along the top of the sack in a most pleasing manner.

For the last several months I have been failing to find the right end of string, and I've taken it as a sign that I've lost the plot because I can't even operate flour bags anymore.

So I emailed the mill-people. They wrote back this AM. I have not lost the plot. Big sacks are knotted such that the correct pull opens them with one tug. The small flour bags have complicated knitting that requires the use of sharp objects. Which I guess makes sense; a small child could have minutes of fun if left unattended in an organic or farm shop.

I related this tale to mater earlier. It turns out that she's been buying the same flour and making the same assumption of brain-fail as I have.

Which just goes to show, um, something.

Comments

[sheepthief.livejournal.com]

Bags of cat litter are similarly knitted, and perhaps this explains why sometimes I just can't do it without scissors. Thankyou for solving that little mystery, which as been soemthing os a frustration for me!

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

I grew up in a house full of sacks of horse feed and birdseed, so such sacks were very familiar to me.

[mr-tom.livejournal.com]

You were feeding Pegasus?

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Or squatting an agricultural merchants.

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

When cooking down pounds and pounds of linseed to make linseed jelly, it definitely felt like that sometimes.

[bmlg.livejournal.com]

I remember those. Now our flour comes in bags with a glued-down fold, and a note cautioning not to pick the bag up by the fold. There are things (potatoes?) that come in stitched-down bags, but I don't seem to be able to unlace them anymore. It's one of those mild harmless pleasures that I miss.

[oryctolagus.livejournal.com]

Runequest! Now there's a blast from my misspent past!

[tails-redux.livejournal.com]

Try Dad's Cabs sometime. A tad reminicent of the bit in Neuromancer with Malcolm. Steppin' razor.

[blue-condition.livejournal.com]

I have wanted to live on a Rastafarian space station ever since I read that book.

[oryctolagus.livejournal.com]

Dad's Cabs are an incredible experience. Not one I may wish to repeat - but incredible none the less.

[tails-redux.livejournal.com]

Oh all I got was some major chanting down of Babylon ;)

[easterbunny.livejournal.com]

you got bored with your runequest and wanted to slope off down the pubbe

This is the first serious guffaw I have had since exploring the potential scenarios requiring new Cat-a-Pult™ brand animal repellent in line at the grocery store last night. Cheers.

[silentq.livejournal.com]

I've been having similar issues with Big Bags of Rice lately. It would probably help if I always purchased the same brand, as some need scissors and some don't, but by the time I'm standing in front of the Wall of Rice, I can't remember which is which.