On Nov 3, 3:27*pm, dsi1 > wrote:
> sf wrote:
> > On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:03:18 -0800, Mark Thorson >
> > wrote:
>
> >> The original recipe was rescued from the trash
> >> by a worker at Lea & Perrins, and passed down
> >> to his daughter.
>
> >>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1224736
>
> > If it was in the trash, what makes them think it's *the* recipe?
>
> "Skip" is the trash? I thought it was something like a small boat. Why
> they would have a boat in a factory is unknown to me - unless it's a
> boat factory. Maybe a skip is a flatbed truck? I donno. Those
> inscrutable Brits, eh?

I believe the boat you're looking for is "skiff". In British slang,
the
skip is the trash.

Cindy Hamilton