SC - Weird but cool kitchen gadgets

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Olwen the Odd wrote:
> 
> I used to have one of those cows that was really a gravy boat.  After the
> first time I used it though, I "accidentally" dropped it on the way to the
> kitchen.  Ugh! The sight of that cow vomiting on my meal was too much ~ even
> for me!'
> Olwen

My dear lady... that is almost certainly a cow creamer, an ancient and
venerable piece of servingware, and in fact a major plot hinge of P.G.
Wodehouse's 1938 novel, "The Code of the Woosters", which book I have
unfortunately lent out, or I would be able to give an exact quote of the
narrator's description of the cow-creamer in question, in this case a
valuable antique silver cow-creamer, stolen, re-stolen, recovered,
stolen again, stolen from the thieves, etc. You get the idea. Here, from
what passes for my memory, is the rather vivid description:

	"It was a silver cow.
	"Now, when I say, 'cow', don't go getting carried away with the idea of
the sort of innocent, friendly cudster you see chewing grass in an
amiable way in the nearest meadow. This was a dark, sinister,
underworld, plug-ugly sort of cow, the sort of cow that would spit out
the side of its mouth for tuppence. Its back opened on a hinge for
filling, and its tail curved up and fused with the spine to afford a
handle for the cream-lover to grasp. The mere sight of it seemed to take
me into another and a dreadful world."  

Adamantius
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Phil & Susan Troy

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