[Sca-cooks] English Doctors want to ban pointy knives...

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On May 31, 2005, at 10:47 PM, Susan Fox-Davis wrote:

>>> And then what about blunt objects?  Crow bars, fireplace pokers,  
>>> statues,
>>> trophies, paperweights,
>>> frozen legs of lamb ... all have been used to murder people ...
>>>
>>
>> Who was murdered with a frozen leg of lamb! State your sources  
>> inquiring
>> minds want to know!
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>
> It was a story from an old episode of ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS.   
> However,
> it does possess the virtue of Food Content for this list.  <grin>

Har-double-rumph!!! Roald Dahl's "Lamb To The Slaughter," from the  
collection, IIRC, "Someone Like You", thankyewverymuch. Yes, it was  
later adapted for television.

Come to think of it, Dahl has a bunch of food related stories: LTTS,  
"Pig," "Royal Jelly", and, of course, "Charlie and the Chocolate  
Factory", to name but a few.

Adamantius




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brioche!" / "If there's no bread to be had, one has to say, let them  
eat cake!"
     -- attributed to an unnamed noblewoman by Jean-Jacques Rousseau,  
"Confessions", 1782

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