>>>Had heard about that. ( sirloin ) I would imagine he was also the originator of "The Pope's Nose" referring to the tail of the turkey (or probably goose at that time )
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>>Don't think so. We call that the "parson's nose" :-)
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>Sounds like politically correct revisionism <s> The shamelessly anti-Catholic version would I'm sure have been more popular when Foxe's Book of Martyrs was a best-seller <g> ( first discovered by me on my old grandmama's bookshelf. Probably why when I was a small child I thought the expression 'It's worse where there's none' was 'where there's nuns'. of course I also thought we were singing "Gladly, the Cross-eyed Bear" in church.

Yeah, and "While shepherds wash their socks by night" at Xmas?

When I first went to a RC wedding, as a wee kid, I blurted out in church, "Mum, why is everyone being given an alka-seltzer?"

>I wasn't a bright child but I sang beautifully and could name all the parts of a turkey. (even the snood) )