Showing posts with label leeks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label leeks. Show all posts

Monday, 10 March 2008

In the soup

A choice phrase leapt out at me from our Social Committee's most recent minutes. These are prepared by someone we really appreciate in St Hackett's - one of the good guys - but my oh my how I laughed when I read it.

There was a bit of dispute about the quality of the food at our Burns Supper (in my view it was fine), especially the cock-a-leekie soup which was a bit stringy.

The phrase in question?

"It was agreed that the leeks could have been cut smaller".

What was it Jesus said about straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel?