Andrew passes the taste test.
“Language that would once have caused an attack of the vapours is now commonplace on TV but although certain words now go to air uncensored, the ABC closed captions substitute the word ‘bleep’ even though there was no bleep,” says Peter Riley of Penrith. “Are the hearing impaired considered too genteel by the ABC to handle the bleeping truth?”
If it’s the grit that counts, Richard Miller of Bywong says Solvol zealots “will find their needs met with either the evocatively named Australian made GritMitts or the perfumed Soap for Tradies.” Then there’s a product some do not miss at all: “One I haven’t seen around for some time is that foul pink concoction, Pecks Paste,” says Meri Will of Northmead. “Not to be confused with Perkins Paste, though in some ways quite similar. Missing, but not missed!” Phil Anderson of Corrimal says Peck’s Anchovy Paste is now manufactured in France and “looks like, smells like and tastes like cat’s vomit. My late uncle, who was a Peck’s product developer, would have been horrified by this.
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