Cafe Einstein - LPTPW 17 - animal, vegetable, and/or a minerally type chemically thing, and maybe some other things as well, yes :)

@MAGIC heh heh heh heh :)))) is that another way of saying his potato collider has a whiff to it, MAGIC? :)

Oh, and thanks for the family history link! Very interesting :)

Perhaps they're being overcooked, Chris. They can get quite nasty if they are. My mother-in-law doesn't serve them till they taste of soap *look directly at einsteinians* yes... they are BLEUCH.

Have you tried caramelising them with onions? Some people say garlic is good with sprouts but I've not tried that.

No :) My parents tortured me in other ways.

Yes, well... ever since a certain "Fragant-wifed" Tory MP (then to be made Lord) successfully sued a newspaper for libel (whilst I was trainee manager of a certain restaurant in Shepherd's Market, where he was wining and dining the lovely high class ladies of the night he claimed he knew nothing of - who lived across the way from us and practised their arts upon him most nights and some days too) I'm a lot more sceptical about those who bring and win libel and defamation suits :)

No. One of my ancestors has been attributed as inventing capitalism* though - to my great shame - thus contributing to lack of cake for so many. Don't think that's why he spent some time in the Tower of London though. But another relative did invent the word serendipity (YAY serendipity) and built Strawberry Hill :) which in many ways is a financial disaster too, what with the cost of trying to stop all its gothicness falling off :)

@Gary: yes the eggplant is one of the family and yes, I'm not interested in that branch either :) As to whether it is a factoid or not is difficult to ascertain so long after the event - as is the one about how precisely potatoes came to the UK to begin with - but whatever those facts are, there is one that seems to be unrefuted... that Raleigh presented them as his import to a counterpart of the one that wore their flowers in her hair. I don't know if Lizzie the wunth did so herself - but I deeply suspect she didn't :)

At that point we're back into factoid land - and that's where I want you :)

*that pure form that takes no prisoners from the exploited and minces the already struggling, till a big bubble bursts and some of the ladder climbers join them in the gutter - that kind... y-e-e-e-s

Two brilliant songs!!! Thanks robl :)