Don't worry frogprince, I figured most 'catters have an appreciation of such humour.

And I decided to 'put it off no longer' and made some for the offsprings' breakfast today as well. But, being in Oz, we dispensed with the maple syrup and resorted to golden syrup. The girls had never tasted it before (how slack of me, when I think of myself as having SOME sense of tradition when cooking) and they wondered about putting such sweet stuff on what they regarded as savoury items. Saturday is our day for fry-up type breakfasts and the sweetest accompaniment they usually get to bacon and eggs would be onion rings and tomatoes.

But I remembered 'breakfasts in the US' from my visits and their inordinate (to my Oz tastes) sweetness and realised there might be be some association with weight. But a good fryup every now and then is just what a decent doctor could order.

Cheers, Rowan