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Author: AgProv

Jan 17th 2016 at 6:23:04 AM

Creator/MikeHarding did stand-up comedy routines about eating unfamiliar food. He built one routine on Indian restaurants: bemoaning those big white  fluffy chappatis they serve. They look good and they're steaming hot but they're incredibly chewy, you're there for ages. [[note]]for anybody who is confused, they're actually the hot towels brought out as cleansing aids after the end of the meal[[/note]]
** Harding's other foray into sophisticated food was ''Posh Parties'', in which he taks about being the in-vogue working-class act invited to sophisticated parties in places like Alderley Edge and Wilmslow and Bramhall,  where there are ''wunches of bankers''.  Harding wilfully pretended to misunderstand;
--> (On seeing olives for the first time): Don't eat them little green grapes with the red middles. Whatever you do. Sour as buggery! Must have spat out two dozen looking for a good 'un...
--> On caviare) And the jam. The blackcurrant jam. That's a trap that is. Spread it on your bread, it tastes like bloody fish! What sort of blackcurrant jam is that?