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Kathleen got a Salad Chef for my wife and me. The appliance came with a cook book.

How odd, I thought. A cook book for a device that spins lettuce and chops stuff.

There is more than lettuce spinning, of course. The cook book has recipes for soups, main dishes and desserts.

When finding the recipe for Mum’s Apple Crumble I thought, “That’s noice, innit?” (People who say “Mum” also pronounce “nice” as “noice” and “isn’t it” as “innit.” I learned that from watching Are you Being Served? on KERA TV from Dallas.) Apple crumble is a good breakfast recipe, especially served with boiled egg whites.

I read the ingredients. OK. Yes. Got that.

“Fat for greasing the tin.”

What? (Or: Wot?)

“Fat,” “greasing” and “tin”?

To paraphrase Jimmy Dugan, “There’s no greasing in American cooking!” And if the food Nazis had their way, there would be no fat either. Nada. None. Zero.

And “the tin”? In the US of A, “tin” normally is an all-purpose adjective, covering various metals, although “sheet metal” has replaced most of tin’s usage. Few people say “tin roof,” for example, or “tin building.”

When I get around to making Mum’s Apple Crumble, I will spray a baking dish with non-fat cooking spray. (There is a loss there somewhere. “Fat for greasing the tin.” “Non-fat cooking spray to spray the baking dish.” The language has been lessened.)

Oh. The Salad Chef does spin lettuce.