...than I read an article on olive oil (yes, really) and remembered a joke that, as far as I'm aware, is still in play.
Once I told my (now thankfully) ex-husband that tradition had meant olives were to be picked only by virgins from the local villages. When they had a bumper crop then they would need to hire these "extra virgins" from towns and therefore it was more expensive as the oil was purer.
Yes that makes no economic sense but it went down as yet another thing I knew about and I know he told at least one other person this amazing fact.
Unlike the Corrs* prank I never did come clean, that is to say I forgot to do so. Simple things for simple minds, eh?
*On remarking how alike the Corrs were (they're siblings) and wondering if they were from the same family, I told him that they'd just had plastic surgery so they would resemble each other. Again, completely forgot about it until a few years later when he mentioned something about it and I had to admit to having him on about the whole thing. Back when we could joke around and didn't want each other to disappear in a puff of smoke.
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