Dog Butt Fruit

OK, what fruit is being described in this eighteenth-century snippet: “A fruit, vulgarly called an open arse; of which it is more truly than delicately said, that it is never ripe till it is as rotten as a turd, and then it is not worth a fart.”
If it’s any help, the French call it cul du [...]

Free Food

Everywhere we look at the moment, there is free food to be found in the hedgerows and trees. We’d be crazy to ignore it?