a note for first-timers

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"salad"

Wombat now has less than half an hour to turn up - she's been sat in the carpark for long enough now. Surely!

If you go to a shop to buy a sandwich and you find "Egg Mayo & Salad" on one of the labels, you pretty much expect it to be egg mayonnaise and salad between a couple of slices of bread, right? I'd have thought so too. The term "salad", it seems, can now be applied to slices of sausage. Did you know that?

I'll have to be careful the next time I order a Caesar Salad from somewhere. I'll need to just make sure by saying, "Caesar Salad please... and hold the sausage." Or does that sound a bit too suggestive? The waitress might get the wrong idea on that one. Hmmm... I think I'd best just take my chances and fish out any bits of sausage I come across and leave them in the ashtray.

I did, in fact, find an "Egg Mayo & Salad" sandwich that contained, somewhat surprisingly, egg mayonnaise and, what I must now call, "traditional" salad. I bought some cookies too, but I've not started on those yet. I think I might have some now actually...