Asking For A Friend #109
They say a picture speaks a thousand words. (They? Who's 'they'? Is that the voices in my head again?) If that were really true, then I wouldn't have to bother writing this intro, would I now? Consider this as padding, "meat in the room", a limp entrée before the main course arrives. Did you know Henry VIII once served a cockentrice and a dolphin to the King of France at a royal banquet? And yes, a cockentrice is exactly what you're thinking – or not, depending on the volume of effluent currently filtering through your brain – a half-pig, half-turkey combo designed to look like a mythical beast. And you thought pigs in blankets were the height of culinary sophistication. Is that enough now? Tuck in your napkins and get ready to feed from the golden trough that is Asking For A Friend.