Thanks, Bryan. Moules indeed delicious -- so are escargots, {but v expensive alas), so long as one likes garlic, which is their predominant flavour when cooked à la Bourguignonne. I was fortunate in that during my late teens & 20s my mother ran a S Ken hotel which belonged to her brother,where I lived & which had in its basement a v fashionable* French restaurant so I had access to moules & snails & such -- so long as I didn't overindulge or Uncle Alec might have had something to say!

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*Diana Dors, Theo Bikel, Gilbert Harding, Marquis of Milford Haven among the regulars.

Apols for drift. Not much to do with Singers -- tho I used to sing there!