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#261 - Riff Yourself Thin, Sexy Elis and Bury’d In Shame

Elis James and John Robins

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Can We Have a Ball Back?

In the early 80s, I had a Saturday job at a leading high street pharmacist in Lee Fee Stratford upon Avon. One of my tasks involved replenishing stock in the pet food aisle. Being a snarky anti-establishment teen, I was only amused that a certain premium brand of dog food sold in particularly small portions with flavours such as Cock-o-Van and Beef Wellington were being sold at quite a luge across Price. On the first Saturday, my ambition was modest, and I started by increasing the price per tin from an RRP of 20 to around 24p. The following week, I notched it up to around 28p, yet still demand was

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