Janice says, "I thought you might enjoy a few things I've run across lately here in Cambridge." The answers are at the end of this message, but don't cheat! See if you can figure them out first. I was leaving a shop and the clerk asked me "Did you bring your brolley with you?" I went shopping and bought lady fingers, capsicums, courgettes, and aubergenes. I went to a restaurant and the menu had "bubble and squeak", "toad in a hole, and "bangers and mash". Is it English, or not? What are they?

Blessings, Janice Brueggemann

Answers:

1. brolley = umbrella

2. lady fingers = okra, capsicums = green peppers, courgettes = zuchini, aubergenes = eggplant

3. bubble and squeak = a cabbage and potato dish, toad in a hole = pigs in a blanket (so, which on is stranger?), bangers and mash = sausages and mashed potatoes. The sausages are called bangers because during WWII the meat had so much added water that when you cooked them, they would explode.

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