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world-famous Eccles Whodat?
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'world-famous Eccles' Whodat?
The woman who invented the eccles cake of course!
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Eccles was a rather famous character on the Goon Show on the BBC. One of his lines was "Everybody's got to be somewhere."
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Thanks Padre. Yep, it was Eccles. As a matter of fact, he only said it once to my knowledge (and I've recently listened to all of the Goon shows, four years' worth plus The Very Last Goon Show Of All while driving between Irchester and Derby each day during the week).
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Okay, Capfka, now come clean about the Eccles cake.
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Okay, Capfka, now come clean about the Eccles cake
errm, wasn't that Zed?
formerly known as etaoin...
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um...yep, had that, plus one pint of Bazza's Bonce Blower and four pints of Old Speckled Hen, so I'm not exactly making sense at the present. Even to me.
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Baz's Bonce Blower, made by Parish Brewery in the Mother Country, is renowned for its alcohol content: 11%!
Old Speckled Hen is an English ale put up mostly in casks but also available in cans and bottles, which generates such loyalty in its drinkers that they have formed an "appreciation society" -- or perhaps the brewer did it for them.
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Ah, Padre, now you begin to understand why I can never return to that benighted country, the Zild!
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Eccles cake is a flat, rounded cake sweet puff pastry filled with sweetened currants, raisins or satsumas. It was named after the village of Eccles, Lancashire, England, which has been assimilated into Greater Manchester. One cannot say with certainty who was "the woman who invented eccles cake" nor that she was necessarily of the female gender, but the cake is very good.
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