From Labour fridge to Mallia fridge
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June 29, 2013 at 10:33pm
“Officer, I’d like to discuss this menu for Saturday’s lunch at the Ministry. Lidl sells salmon at half the price, and I can ring for a further discount.”
Back in the election campaign of 1998, one of the Nationalist Party’s most effective billboards depicted nothing but a near-empty fridge.
For weeks after that, the household code for ‘time to go shopping’ was ‘We’ve got a Labour fridge.’
I’ve just opened the fridge to find it empty after a week in which neither of us had the time or the inclination to stock up. And the words immediately popped into my mind: “Mallia fridge. Too bad tomorrow’s Sunday.”
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Mallia fridge? Joseph delivers.
And Peter Paul provides outside catering.
The Mallia fridge is not empty. If so, how does one square that up with his over-generous girth? The Mallia fridge is lockable, and he holds the only key.
Jeez, you just gave the fat frog another idea. All Maltese fridges lockable and centrally controlled from his ministry.
Down goes obesity, excepting the fat frog and his cronies, down go imports, up goes the current account, up goes GDP, down goes the deficit.
An island of skeletons, just like North Korea.
“An island of skeletons” – his wife is really slim.
Lidl opens tomorrow. I know you can’t venture inside for what the typical Lidl shopper might shout at you (and worse), but they aren’t as bad as painted.
[Daphne – My concern, Alexander, is that I might encounter the Police Minister in the detergent aisle. It is where he shops.]
The Police Minister cannot be doing much in the way of washing on a couple of pushchair loads of jerrycans of water and with an eight-person household.
Also detergent is expensive. Possibly already tapped into the consignment of sapun tac-cavetta seized by the police off Bastjan Dalli’s Jolly Roger.
People passing near the Malta police academy saw policemen disguised as waiters running with trays.
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Rumour has it that the secret service is holding training sessions at ta’ Kandja for all the corps members. They can volunteer for extra banqueting service if they succeed in running a mile with a glass of wine and dessert served on a tray, without spilling.
There’s also the McMallia now.
A group of friends were having a barbecue and they invented the McMallia.
It’s really simple. Up to now, the bun and the fries were always served separately. There’s no ‘separation’ anymore. Just ‘transfer’ your fries/chips to the bun, i.e. on top of your meat burger and pronto you have a McMallia.
If you are a perfectionist, get it served by a policeman.
I believe it was the 1992 campaign. It was indeed effective.
[Daphne – Yes, I was mistaken. But so are you. It was actually the 1998 campaign.]