Horse Meat in Tesco and Iceland

[MargaretR]

Read on another forum -

"Vatican reeling as DNA tests show communion wafers contain 0% Christ"

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by MargaretR

Read on another forum -

"Vatican reeling as DNA tests show communion wafers contain 0% Christ"

Its always been in the mind Margaret, its surprising what belief can do if you really want it to, I was never that convinced myself

[Eric]

Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse:Ikea recalls cakes in 23 countries after sewage bacteria found - Telegraph

Adds a whole new meaning to "Let them eat cake"

[susie123]

Originally Posted by Eric

Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse:Ikea recalls cakes in 23 countries after sewage bacteria found - Telegraph

Adds a whole new meaning to "Let them eat cake"

Yawn... they have to go over the top with the scaremongering - why not just leave out the word sewage from the headline and let people read the story to find out more.

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by susie123

Yawn... they have to go over the top with the scaremongering - why not just leave out the word sewage from the headline and let people read the story to find out more.

Think the word sewage in the headline guarantees that people will read the story Sue

[DtheP47]

Originally Posted by Eric

Adds a whole new meaning to "Let them eat cake"

Let them eat cack...... Oh sugar that's my probation terms banjaxed another months ban for swearing

[DaveinGermany]

Originally Posted by DtheP47

banjaxed

Now there's a term I've not heard for quite a while.

[DtheP47]

Originally Posted by DaveinGermany

Now there's a term I've not heard for quite a while.

Found this Mr D:
Actually it stems from the Urdu "Bahnn Gehecked" which refers to a large pottery cooking bowl or gourd....These gourds were not very resistant to heat and developed cracks at the base.
When the Pasthu women lifted these onto their shoulders the base frequently came away showering the carrier with hot liquid or stew.

By common usage then the term became a descriptor for an item which was faulty or unsafe.
For instance when someone would attempt to lift a full basket of cobras for the snake charmer someone might say .."Be carefull Parminder....that could be bahnn gehecked...

British soldiers in India brought the expression to these islands

*** Susie123 mentions finding some potsherds up on Morecambe Bay, they may well have come off the shipwreck of the Bengal Lancers back in the great storm of 1882

Bahnn Gehecked sounds German to me though

[susie123]

Originally Posted by DtheP47

*** Susie123 mentions finding some potsherds up on Morecambe Bay, they may well have come off the shipwreck of the Bengal Lancers back in the great storm of 1882

Bahnn Gehecked sounds German to me though

More likely the local dump for Silverdale from what I found...

[susie123]

Originally Posted by DtheP47

Found this Mr D:
Actually it stems from the Urdu "Bahnn Gehecked" which refers to a large pottery cooking bowl or gourd....These gourds were not very resistant to heat and developed cracks at the base.
When the Pasthu women lifted these onto their shoulders the base frequently came away showering the carrier with hot liquid or stew.

By common usage then the term became a descriptor for an item which was faulty or unsafe.
For instance when someone would attempt to lift a full basket of cobras for the snake charmer someone might say .."Be carefull Parminder....that could be bahnn gehecked...

British soldiers in India brought the expression to these islands

*** Susie123 mentions finding some potsherds up on Morecambe Bay, they may well have come off the shipwreck of the Bengal Lancers back in the great storm of 1882

Bahnn Gehecked sounds German to me though

Don't buy that for a minute - it's Irish, ask Terry Wogan.

[DtheP47]

Originally Posted by susie123

More likely the local dump for Silverdale from what I found...

I thought Morecambe was the local dump for Silverdale

[Gordon Booth]

Originally Posted by DtheP47

I thought Morecambe was the local dump for Silverdale

I don't know why people make fun of Morecambe- I think it's awful!

[DaveinGermany]

It was in common usage amongst the Military 80's- 90's, but since then seldom heard.

[Eric]

Originally Posted by susie123

Yawn... they have to go over the top with the scaremongering - why not just leave out the word sewage from the headline and let people read the story to find out more.

Know what you mean ... there was a thing a while back in Brooks, Alberta at a meat packing plant ... e coli or some stuff like that in some of the meat. I think a grand total of seventeen people accross Canada reported symptoms ... (of course, they could have been hung over) But this made front page news for a couple of weeks Seventeen people! From a packing plant that slaughtered 4,000 animals a day. Ok, it might not have been seventeen; it might have been thirteen, which is how many years etc. ... but it wasn't all that many.

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by DtheP47

I thought Morecambe was the local dump for Silverdale

Ya Mr D Saturday night entertainment in Morecambe is watching the traffic lights change on the Barbary Coast