"Recipes for a curate's egg"

[ChrisGreaves]

Guardian UK
Some classic guffaws in here.
Example: Elizabeth David thought she'd found "the most revolting recipe ever devised", an "Italian salad" containing macaroni, raw minced onion and carrot, and tinned peas. But a typo in Tim Hayward's piece suggested the already grim recipe use tinned pears, not peas, which deftly trumped David's own discovery.