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From Russet With Love
Jan. 27th, 2005 01:15 pmMy aunt and uncle bought some amazing apple juice recently. Freshly pressed, direct from the orchard, still with a few bits in, tastes amazing. They got it from a supplier round the corner in Kennington, and launched it on the rest of us over Christmas. We were all knocked sideways by it, and greedily asked where we could get hold of some for ourselves.
Two weeks later, my uncle went to get a beer from the ground-level cupboard where the juice was kept. He closed the door behind him, and was walking away when he thought he heard a car hit a lamp-post outside. It was my aunt who noticed the foaming apple juice spurting out from below the cupboard door behind him.
The glass bottle, though well within the juice’s “use by” date, had violently exploded. If my uncle had dithered over his beer he would have lost half his face. Shaken, and a little soggy from clearing up large amounts of apple juice, he contacted the suppliers. “Yeah, sorry, we’ve had a problem with the russet,” they said. “We did send an email to everyone on the mailing list.”
I’m not in as much of a rush to order some as I was, but it might make a perfect gift for that special someone you really can’t abide, so let me know if any of you need to place an order for the special russet.
Two weeks later, my uncle went to get a beer from the ground-level cupboard where the juice was kept. He closed the door behind him, and was walking away when he thought he heard a car hit a lamp-post outside. It was my aunt who noticed the foaming apple juice spurting out from below the cupboard door behind him.
The glass bottle, though well within the juice’s “use by” date, had violently exploded. If my uncle had dithered over his beer he would have lost half his face. Shaken, and a little soggy from clearing up large amounts of apple juice, he contacted the suppliers. “Yeah, sorry, we’ve had a problem with the russet,” they said. “We did send an email to everyone on the mailing list.”
I’m not in as much of a rush to order some as I was, but it might make a perfect gift for that special someone you really can’t abide, so let me know if any of you need to place an order for the special russet.
