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Linda Bell
Bird's Eye Wall's Ltd
Station Avenue
Walton-on- Thames
Surrey
KT12 1NT
Dear Linda Bell
Thank you for your letter of 14th May.
I took your advice and made myself some do-it-yourself boil-in-the-bag kippers.
I bought some kippers from my local fishmonger, who assured me that they were of
the finest quality, put them in a strong plastic bag with a generous pat of Lurpak,
excluded all the air, then sealed them with my wife's steam iron. (If I do any more I
will have to think of something else, because after using the iron the following day
my wife complained that her leotard smelt of fish).
I am afraid that the result was a bit of a disappointment, as the kippers
did not reach your high standard. However I then tried an experiment, boiling a
pair of kippers, which I had purchased at the same time, with one of your
boil-in-the-bag plastic bags. These kippers tasted exactly the same as yours!
It wasn't just my imagination either, because in order to test my findings
I then boiled two Aunt Bessie's Individual Yorkshire Puddings, one in an
ordinary plastic bag and one in one of your plastic bags, and the one boiled
in your plastic bag tasted far superior.
It would appear then that your plastic bags have a greater
influence on the taste of your kippers than you give them
credit for. With this in mind I was wondering if I could purchase
a quantity of them from you?
Yours faithfully  |
