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Diet
Is there ANYTHING worse than being served dinner when visiting a relative and it’s something you hate so much it feels like your stomach is trying to escape out of your bottom and run away?
Even worse – you’ve been given an EXTrA-LaRgE portion. And by the looks you’re getting from your mum and dad, you’d better eat it all or there’ll be BiG trouble for little you.
The thing is, it’s probably just sprouts or broccoli or steak and kidney pie or something. But if you think YoU’vE GoT iT BaD, if you were sitting down to a banquet
in a medieval castle you might have been dished up an aCtUaL WhAlE! Imagine trying to squeeze that into your poor belly.
A whale might not have been on the menu very much, but dolphins and porpoises were probably seen more often – along with a whole lot of very weird and sometimes very wonderful dishes.
Do you want any more dolphin?
No thanks – I´m FIN-ished! Get it?
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