Mrs Sensible has a Shakespearean dilemma – ‘To spit or not to spit?’
The nice lady at Secret Sicily invited me to write a guest post for her blog. If you want to read about when Mrs Sensible was a Miss and made a Catastrophic error please go to Secret Sicily
Englishman in Italy 
My heart goes out to Mrs. S. There is nothing worse than biting into something expecting it to taste a certain way and then have it be something totally different (like the proverbial box of chocolates).
Did she develop a taste for scotch eggs? Probably not.
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I don’t think she has tried scotch eggs since that afternoon. mmm chocolates, we have a local shop run by a Japanese woman and her chocolates are wonderful.
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Her secret is safe with me and all I can say is that she should thank her lucky stars she hadn’t moved to my hometown of Manchester otherwise she might have bitten into a Manchester egg – the northern scally cousin of a Scotch egg!! I’m with Mrs S on arancini though, and cannot get enough of them here in Venice!!! http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2010/apr/29/manchester-egg
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Hi Liz, so you are from ‘over them there hills’ My mum was from somewhere called Dukinfield. I remember pork pies from Lancashire were special and eccles cakes. I also remember it rained more than it did in Yorkshire.
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Poor Mrs Sensible – how awful.
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At least I never made her eat Heinz canned spaghetti
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spitting, sadly here in the states, never seems to bother any one—- much to my chagrin 🙂
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Congrats on your guest post!
I laughed out loud but felt sorry for Mrs S biting into an arancino sans the usual trimmings! Indeed it must have been traumatic knowing what the Sicilian rice ball is like!!! Hopefully she has recovered!
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I need to ask her if she needed any therapy to overcome the shock
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I hope not!
I have a similar scary experience every time I see someone cutting their spaghetti with a knife… Oh the horror!
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that is the worst situation to be in! yikes!
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I can imagine her surprise! I had a similar reaction when I was given root beer in the US after being told it was like ginger beer. It wasn’t, and I had to resist the urge to spit it out because it tasted like mouthwash.
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Root beer!!!! What is that?
It is always a shock when you think you are eating / drinking one thing and are given something different. It is too early in the morning to tell you about the time Mrs S let me eat lumaca on a skewer when I thought it was a beef..
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