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24 March, 2010 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

Curry

A friend of mine makes chicken curry for a living, he makes a lot of it, in fact he makes 2 tonnes of it an hour, he could keep most of Birmingham fed. The problem is that when you make that much curry, invariably you drop some.  Last year he threw away well over £1 […]

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