Bittersweet nostalgia

August 19, 2026 — 9:00pm“Those who can remember bottles of soft drink in the 1950s might recall Orange Delight and Lemonade Delight, both having tiny flecks of fruit floating in the bottle,” writes David Sayers of Gwandalan. “The fruit was the ‘delight’. My school had a guided tour of the soft-drink factory back then, when I noticed hundreds of bags of potatoes piled up. When I asked our guide what they were for, he replied ‘They’re the fruit flecks in the orange and lemonade delight’. Was nothing sacred, even back then?”“Chris Henning’s musings upon Food Truck One (C8) got me wondering what the spécialité de jour might have been,” considers Paul Koff of Glenhaven. “A king-sized portion of tripe, baloney and waffle, perhaps?”Regarding yesterday’s reference to Imam Khomeini International, G