White Castle 100 year anniversary! ( Archived) (13)

Not at all a fan of White Castle. blech.
But cute mugs.

My daughter is dyslexic so I got away with telling her that 'Barbie' (the doll) actually said 'Bimbo' on the box for many years. One day she was sitting in the trolley as I pushed it around Aldi, when she spotted a bargain bin of these cringe-worthy abominations.

"Look Mam!" she yelled in her most uninhibited volume, "Bimbos!", much to the amusement of my fellow shoppers.

I suspect as a revenge attack and much to my horror, after my daughter was promoted to the role of matriarch, she gave my granddaughter a colour change Barbie mug for her birthday. Fortunately, my granddaughter wasn't all that impressed with it; unfortunately it became a part of my mug collection (of two mugs) out of necessity/crockery laziness.

Being quite a large mug I tended to give that one to my Northern English friend when he visited simply because one can't serve a Northerner tea in anything less than a half pint mug without jeopardising the friendship. He suggested using a permanent black marker to write above the name 'Barbie', so when it colour changed from black to pink, the name 'Klaus' would be revealed.

It's my favourite mug now.

Here's Castell Coch (pronounced Cast-eh- Coh- ) meaning Red Castle for you instead.







The original parts of it are nearly 1,000 years old, but it was rebuilt as a summer house by the third Marquess of Bute after he inherited it in 1848. He employed William Burges as the architect.