The whole three yards

[desperance]

I was musing just now, wondering if I could name three comestibles that were sold by the yard. As it turned out, I couldn't. Not offhand. There is the famous yard of ale, of course, and also the Cumberland sausage (about which the wikipedia entry is tediously inaccurate, with its 50cm folly; my favourite supplier used to have two thumbtacks in his counter as a measure for selling the uncut sausage, and they were one full yard apart).

And that's where I dry up. I have not googled, but there must be more. One could buy a yard of many foodstuffs, of course - many fish are big enough to sell by the yard - but no one does. Chinese yard long beans don't count, because (a) they're not a yard long and (b) they're not sold by length anyway. Nor of course is spaghetti.

C'mon. Point up my idiocy: what am I forgetting? It's Sunday, you've got nothing better to do. Me, I'm editing my novel while the Cumberland sausage cooks...

Comments

[pennski.livejournal.com]

Ooh - that was my first thought too.

Do you think you can get it in A4 and A3?