TALES of protecting foodstuffs remind Ian Allingham: "My dad was interned in Siam during the Second World War by the Japanese in a house which was serviced by a house boy.
"The internees noticed that the level of sherry in the decanter kept falling and one of them decided to replace half of the sherry with his own bodily fluid.
"This did not reduce the incidence of disappearing sherry so, after a few days, they confronted the house boy who explained that he was teetotal, but did regularly use the sherry as an ingredient when cooking their evening meals."
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