The NSW Department of Fair Trading (are you in NSW?) are the ones to talk to, as well as the Health Inspection section of your local council. Fair Trading is the *best* value gov't department I know of, and to even just threaten a business with going to Fair Trading is often enough to get what you want. I like watching the shonky business people do an about-face when you mention the DoFT. That's fun!

Talking of rotten spuds - and there is no smell quite like it in the vegetable world - what about the rotten spud chucked out by Griselda in the Jabberwocky movie, and coincidentally caught by the Michael Palin character. Then, when he is trying to gain entrance to the fortified city because of the famine the guards find the potato and try to get him to hand it over as a fee for entering. When Palin says he cannot part with it because it was a gift from his girlfriend one of the guards says, "Ooooh! She must really love you!"

When I first saw that movie at the theatre I had only recently had the dubious pleasure of smelling rotten potatoes so that scene was very real for me - and very funny.

Helen