Re: Cambridge

From: Mikko Rintasaari <mikrin_at_...>
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 16:47:34 +0300 (EET DST)

On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Jane Williams wrote:

> > There's the old story (probably apocryphal) of a > student ....demanding a
> flagon of ale and bread,
>
> In the version I knew, it was a bottle of wine.

and some cakes, wasn't it? I think that one is supposed to have happened fairly recently (within 2 decades) in Cambridge. The person reputedly got a hamburgermeal, as the closest approximation at hand.

        -Adept : a foreigner who like Cambridge