Now look here, chaps, I'm not going to allow any more of that knee-jerk, Anglosphere, anti-French prejudice! Not everything the French do is bad; yes, I grant you, most of it is but they do have their saving graces. One of them was announced recently by Her Majesty's Daily Telegraph and it will be of particular interest to all you flatulent, farting Anglos, Aussies and Arkies - I do not include North Carolina because it is obvious that my e-pal 'Whitewall' is a gentleman of the old school who would walk ten miles to ensure that the whiff of any escaping, er, gas, shale or otherwise, was kept well away from his delicate lady wife.
Anyway the good news is this:
A Frenchman has developed a range of pills aimed at making people’s flatulence smell sweeter - of chocolate or of roses - which he says will make the perfect Christmas present.
The 65-year-old artist and inventor says his pills are aimed at easing indigestion and are made of 100 percent natural ingredients such as fennel, seaweed and blueberries.
Crikey! "Fennel, seaweed and blueberries", I can feel my tummy rumbling already! However, M. Poincheval, knows where-of he invents:
Mr Poincheval said he came up with the idea for the pills one evening when he was enjoying a hearty meal with some friends.
“Our farts were so smelly we were nearly suffocated. Something had to be done,” he said.
So he began researching natural ingredients that would reduce flatulence and after months of experimentation came up with the recipe for his pills.
Gosh, if only I had known I would have volunteered to be his, er, test-bed, or to be more accurate, the 'Memsahib' would have volunteered me on the spot! Anyway, just in time, M. Poincheval, has produced this year's 'must have' Christmas gift:
For this year’s festive season he has added a new product to the range which he has titled “The Father Christmas fart pill that gives your farts the scent of chocolate”.
Commenters, do please try and take this seriously, or at least remember that it is me that does the jokes round here!
