C9 - Wednesday, September 14, 1983 - North Shore News|

ELEANOR AND HER SHERRY

ALL THAT fruit over
the week-end en-
couraged the fruit-fly
population, which, the
geneticists tell us,
hardly needs a boost.
They're hke motes in
the eye, so minute and
lively

are they, so
expert at avoiding
slapping hands and

newspapers. They seem
more abundant than
usual, this year, squads
of them monitoring the
plums and _= apricots,
then riding home with
you as though invited.

Actually, I consider
myself the Fruit-Fly Queen,
after an experience several
years ago. We were living in
a house, then — people still
do that, I know — and it was
my custom to enjoy a glass
of sherry before dinner. This
sherry could be described as
“medium”, being mixed half
and half of dry and sweet. |
quite liked it, and so did the
resident fruit-flies.

‘When the plague began, I

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FROM PAGE C8

let lousy B.C. wines compete
with their products, when
B.C. won't do the same for
their wines? Ontario does
produce some drinkable
wines — such as Jordan
Canadian Claret. which cost
$4.30 for a litre in Ontario. It
was slightly fruity, with no
body, but dry, smooth and
pleasant, with an interesting
tart aftertaste.

It compared well with the
general run of the mill B.C.
wines (and was much better
than the B.C. wines available
in Ontario). But you can't get
ithere.

vik

the
kitchen
_ ranger

by Eleanor
Godley

didn't know what these
imsects were, or why they
were acting in such
recklessly sybaritic fashion.
It was late fall, when even
the houseflies have retired
‘for the season, but the
minute I sat down with my

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The invasion of ¢

sherry glass, dozens of them

would settle on its rim,
crowding. shoving, com-
peting to such an=un-

disciplined degree that many
would fall into my drink. In
fact, if one looked closely,
there were little smiles on
the faces of those who were
up to their necks in my
sherry and making not the
slightest attempt to swim. A
disgusting exhibition of
sheer hedonism on the part
of the lower orders, eh? and
I having constantly to keep
my teeth clenched.

It was surely a case for the
Research Institute at the
University of British
Columbia. I strained out a
score of these little soakers,
did them up in waxed paper
and mailed them off to the
experts, asking for iden-
tification and help in
preventing them from im-
molating themselves in my
booze.

Their reply, couched in
most delicate terms,
identified my unwelcome
visitors as the common fruit-
fly, and suggested that they
were (a) drawn by the sugar
content of the sherry, so why

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didn’t I switch to Scotch?
and (b) that there was very
likely some failure of zeal in
my housekeeping which had
allowed a deposit of spilled
jam, or preserves, to provide
a breeding-place for these
proliferating hordes. and
maybe it would be a good
idea to check the dark
recesses of my _ possibly-
neglected cupboards.

That certainly ruffled my
feathers, 1, whose cupboards
were immaculate. Changing
the nature of my _pre-
prandial libation did indeed
lower the incidence of
alcoholic suicide. But before
Christmas the carpet
cleaners were brought in,
and in performance of their
job shifted some _ heavy
pieces of furniture about.
They thus came to me to
present an object they had

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found behind and under the
stereo, a Japanese orange,
escaped from the fruit-bowl
of last year’s pleasure.
completely covered with
mould and humming with
lively life, the perfect in-
cubator. I thought of mailing
it to the gentlemen at the
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e fruit-flies

afraid they might mistake it
for a bomb.

You Can see, now, why I
douse my fresh produce in
cold water before opening
shopping bags, these days,
hoping to drown the little
beasts before they find some
flaw in my housekeeping, in
some dark recess.

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