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Brendan, I've never understood how anyone could eat eel - let alone jellied eel. I'm shivering (with horror) just thinking about it! Is that the dish that comes with a horrible green 'liquor', sauce, whatever?

Talking of Easter, who can tell me when Good Friday fell on a Tuesday? It really did happen but it's an old question and the answer is rather easy to find on the internet these days.

Orson, how interesting! I'm not going to do any online research (aka cheating) but will wait for you, Jigjag or some other learned person to tell me.

Good Friday once fell on Easter Monday.
It might have been at Doncaster!

Hi Malone, you may well shiver, it looks and smells yukky! That said, the stall where it was sold, Tubby Isaacs, is/was world famous (sort of) - you might enjoy these old photos:-

http://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/06/13/so-long-tubby-isaacs-jellied-eel-stall/

The 'green sauce' you mention is indeed called 'liquor', but it's served with pie and mash, another East End 'delicacy' - it's actually not bad, again, sort of!

Brendan, thanks for that - and now that you explain the 'liquor' I remember hearing about it. It was on the list of things that I made sure I would never eat!

Rossim, a great gag - I loved it!

Very good Rossim, I like it :-)

Rossim's got the right idea. Good Friday was the name of a horse that fell in a race in 1899 on a Tuesday.

Thanks, Orson - and I still laughed at your version! I thought I was going to acquire more Easter knowledge … not that I'd have retained it anyway.