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BBQ at Richie’s – Brilliant Stuff That

Leaves Come from Trees

As always there are some funny things that happen, even in the midst of major natural disasters. Take for instance this story. During work to clear roads of trees and debris in our retirement village, one of the village residents got his gas BBQ operating (there was no electricity for quite a long time – 24 hours) in order to give his neighbours a hot coffee or cup of tea. Maintenance staff also got an opportunity to get a hot drink.

One woman came down and began to speak of how she had been picking up leaves all morning from near her place. At this point another woman pointed out to her, ‘the leaves come from the trees.’ Well this was one revelation that we were all thankful to get, not knowing where all these leaves had come from.

Later on, one of my staff decided to take a seat on the roof we were cutting a large tree branch from (it had gone through the roof). Incredibly he decided to sit in the hole that the branch had made through the roof – he says he didn’t know it was there. Well, that had me stumped, especially since the hole was the reason we were on the roof in the first place.

Sausages

What is it with sausages? You go to the butcher and you buy a kilo of sausages for a BBQ. You then take them home for the BBQ and start to cook them on the BBQ, only to find them loose half their weight from fat that leaches out. Now that of course is a good thing – loosing the fat. What I want to introduce into society is an international standard for sausage weight that states a sausage cannot be any less than such a weight when cooked for it to be a legal and compliant sausage.

Why do I say that? Because consumers are being ripped off all over the country by purchasing sausages that are less in weight after they are cooked than what they weighed prior to cooking. Some sausages shrink to half their size or more. Consumers everywhere should rise up against such injustice and demand change. Only when sausage eaters everywhere do so can we expect a fair go for the average sausage eater, the little bloke of sausage eating who just can’t get a good banger on the BBQ anymore.

Now don’t get me started about the quality of meat in a sausage!