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ALL hail, and no little rain, mist and drizzle, for the great British summer holiday.

Following its front-page news that families are facing the “grim prospect” of having to find an additional £700 to fund an overseas summer holiday, the Express looks at the pleasures of staying at home.

Picture the scene. You’ve burnished your collection of sand jewels (what mum jokingly calls “broken glass”), dived into the bracing sea in your tight jeans, and taken in Jim Davidson’s XXX-Factor show on the end of a very long pier.

You are now ready to eat. And what better to lag the body than a Great British banger, a scoop of Great British mash potato, some Great British peas (if not in season then use some Great British Kenyan-grown peas) and some Great British gravy?

And what more quintessentially British than securing the delicious concoction atop a Great British ice-cream cone? (Take care to remove the ice-cream first.)

It is the Mash Cone. And it’s the “brain child” of food company Aunt Bessie’s.

Says makerting manager Jane Jones: “We are all remember buying an ice-cream on a hot summer’s day, and we want to keep something of that tradition going. Now we can keep up the nostalgic thrill of buying a cone from a van without the chill.”

The Express says it’s all a response to news of global warming and wetter British summers.

Of coruse, if it is a hot day, then just ask the ice-cream wallah to serve your Mash Cone frozen.

Slurp!

Posted: 10th, April 2008 | In: Strange But True, Tabloids. Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0