Mate of minetraining to be a nurse, had a really nice recipe for fruit salad with a bit of sherry over it. Being a poor student, he hadn't the cash for sherry, but being a nursing student, he did have access to large amounts of surgical spirit. Which, it turns out, doesn't work very well as a substitute for sherry in anything you're planning to put in your mouth. Especially if you're hoping not to be very, very ill later that evening.
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