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Crabbe on the final stretch of the hustings, ordering a drink: 'I'd like a shandy* of light**, with about 60 per cent lemonade.'

I know that Abbott treats his body as a temple, but that's ridiculous. Just order a bloody lemonade!

As [livejournal.com profile] quatrefoil  notes, Hermione, in similar conditions, ordered a schooner of dark beer***. Bless.



* A shandy is a beverage part-beer, part-lemonade or other fizz. Wikipedia assures me that in Germany it's known as a Radler, and in France as a panache. In Australia, it's known as a genteel drink for genteel ladies of a certain age  ETA: and, [livejournal.com profile] complications_g  assures me, medium-sized children..

** Light beer is an abomination and utterly unAustralian. I'm not even a real Australian and I'm offended by it!

*** It was only a matter of time until she turned to drink.

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