You want some tomatoes? Come up here, we’re inundated. We’ve got a tomato mountain. That’s because nobody in the north of England eats salad vegetables, yet the government keeps sending up vast lorry-loads of the stuff to stop us dying of diabetes.
So much of what we were forbidden to say about Covid has turned out to have had considerable substance
It’s an actual fact that nobody who lives north of Stamford, Lincs, has ever knowingly eaten cucumber.

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