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Original recipe for Worcestershire sauce found in dumpster
Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> 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?
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> I believe the boat you're looking for is "skiff". In British slang,
> the
> skip is the trash.
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> Cindy Hamilton
Thanks!
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