Follow-up

IN THE days before supermarkets, when you’d wait to be served at the counter, I was daydreaming when I realised it was my turn, and blurted out: ‘Half a pound of streen geaky bacon please.’ for those who don’t understand this, I should have said ‘green streaky bacon’ — ‘green’ being what is now called unsmoked. Hilary May-Miller, Old Basing, Hants.