Eleven salmon smoking

[venta]

The Kipper Issue is resolved.

Pier Road Seafoods seem wholly ungooglable. However, by arcane means involving a leaflet in with the offending fishes, I acquired a URL. Their website only gives old-skool contact details, so I just rang them. No, no problem. A new pair of kippers would be in the post tomorrow.

So, I thought service like that deserved to be advertised. Everyone who likes kippers should visit:

http://www.kippersbymailwhitby.co.uk/

And order a pair. Off you go, now.

Comments

[broadmeadow.livejournal.com]

1 herring = 2 kippers (I believe - Liz is the expert!)

So I suppose that's why they're traditionally in pairs.

Now, why is it a pair and not a brace?!

[venta.livejournal.com]

Liz is the expert

Bzzzzt! Wrong!

[wimble.livejournal.com]

I think you're only allowed to do that if you can nominate somebody else to be more expert than you are.

You may not be "an expert", but you certainly appear to be "the expert" (around here, anyway).

[venta.livejournal.com]

I think you're only allowed to do that if you can nominate somebody else to be more expert than you are.

My mother. Bet she knows all about kippers.

[venta.livejournal.com]

I don't believe so. She has sent me many and varied strange things, as you know.

However, she is aware, as some people on this thread don't seem to have guessed, that I'm not actually that fond of kippers myself :)

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

I thought one kipper was one herring, cut almost in half and opened out?

[broadmeadow.livejournal.com]

It would appear I am as clueless as I look. From studying pictures of some, it does look like that's what they are.

In which case: why can you only but them in pairs?!