Today I nipped into a supermarket near the Gathering Place to buy strawberries and cream (and alternatives) for our student picnic for tomorrow lunchtime. I handed my cotton bag to the young man at the till for him to pack my boxes of strawberries (is 2kilos enough? I hope so!) and tubs of cream and observed 'it's a bit like the Krypton Factor isn't it.' He looked bemused, so I said, I guess that's before your time... Oh dear, I was a mere 14 years old when it began in the ninteeen seventies. No wonder a lad in his late teens or early twenties didn't know what it was. Still now I have strawberries and two out of the three cream/substitutes I was after... will have to go to the Supermarket nearest home for the vegan alternative as those near church doesn't seem to sell it.
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Sorry to say you're showing it even worse...
It came back for another run in 2009 and 2010. So he could well have seen it.
Thanks Gary. Hmm, so actually he was just ignorant then...! Nice, polite, helpful but ignorant. I feel so much better now!!
And younger than we are!
Gordon Burns didn't do the recent re-run, though! I once sat at the next table to him in the Drunken Duck near Hawkshead. Fame at last.