The truth about fruit & vegetables...

[andrewc]

If five portions a day are so good, how come rabbits and slugs are so stupid?

[nicknack]

Secretly, Cameron exists solely on a diet of nothing but Eton mess, a dessert concocted from strawberries, cream, meringue, mess and pieces of digestives left over from the historic "biscuit game", still played in Eton dormitories on the day of the costly school's annual cricket contest against Winchester College. But, typically, while Cameron guzzles the mess of the elite, he expects you and I to suck our nourishment from the dirt.

Oy! I like Eton mess.

Always wondered where the slight saltiness came from.

[arabella]

Isn't it supposed to be 8 anyway, but they went with 5 as they thought no-one would even try if 8 were suggested?

[Cudzoziemiec]

I'm sure I've seen 9 recommended in India, which might tend to confirm 8.

[Regulator]

Secretly, Cameron exists solely on a diet of nothing but Eton mess, a dessert concocted from strawberries, cream, meringue, mess and pieces of digestives left over from the historic "biscuit game", still played in Eton dormitories on the day of the costly school's annual cricket contest against Winchester College. But, typically, while Cameron guzzles the mess of the elite, he expects you and I to suck our nourishment from the dirt.

Oy! I like Eton mess.

Always wondered where the slight saltiness came from.

Except Eton Mess does not contain any biscuit....

[Marj]

Secretly, Cameron exists solely on a diet of nothing but Eton mess, a dessert concocted from strawberries, cream, meringue, mess and pieces of digestives left over from the historic "biscuit game", still played in Eton dormitories on the day of the costly school's annual cricket contest against Winchester College. But, typically, while Cameron guzzles the mess of the elite, he expects you and I to suck our nourishment from the dirt.

Oy! I like Eton mess.

Always wondered where the slight saltiness came from.

Except Eton Mess does not contain any biscuit....

Biscuits, no, no, no, no that's all wrong

[hellymedic]

Eton Mess = Pavlova + hammer innit?
Meringue, whipped cream & soft summer fruits or
a meringue?

[eck]

Eton Mess = Pavlova + hammer innit?
Meringue, whipped cream & soft summer fruits or
a meringue?

No, you're right enough. 


From the series, Best Jokes in the World. #649

[Regulator]

Eton Mess = Pavlova + hammer innit?
Meringue, whipped cream & soft summer fruits or
a meringue?

There is an argument to be had over whether it should contain sherry...

I don't mind either way.   

[clarion]

If the current crop is anything to go by, everything coming out of Eton can make a Mess.

[pcolbeck]

Eton has produced some good guys:

George Orwell
Percy Shelly
Humphry Lyttelton

For example.

[CAMRAMan]

Is Eton Mess a bit like a naval soggy biscuit?

[clarion]

See suggestion above, quoted by nicknack from article linked in OP.  Not biscuit, obv, but meringue in this case.