Everybody would be drinking orange squash and cups of tea, while father would have a quiet half-pint brought in by a waitress from another room.
I have already deployed with some vigour the argument about the bottle of orange squash.
Children drink lemon squash and orange squash with their daily meals.
What arrived at the table was a small glass of lukewarm, very dilute orange squash.
Every day we get a new warning about health, food, drugs, vitamins—endless warnings, right down to orange squash.
If one took the same bottle of orange squash up to a very high altitude, the solids would rise to the top because the mixture would then be over-stabilised.
What about the bottle of orange squash in the hands of a 10-year-old child?
Would it surprise him to know that plans are now well advanced for the sale of nine million bottles of orange squash to the general public?
