Daill Mail - 08.08.2019

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QUESTIONS

HEALTHIER take

on Peking duck.

Serves 2.

Compiled by Charles Legge

TODAY’S RECIPE:

Hoisin wraps

Method

QUESTION

What was the

poem recited

by Timothy West on TV’s Great Canal

Journeys after travelling through the

Crinan Canal in Argyll and Bute?

IT WAS Scotland’s most famous love

poem, A Red, Red Rose. Originally

considered to be a song, rather than a

poem, it is usually credited to Scotland’s

national poet, Robert Burns:

O my Luve’s like a red, red rose,

That’s newly sprung in June:

O my Luve’s like the melodie,

That’s sweetly play’d in tune.

As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,

So deep in luve am I:

And I will luve thee still, my dear,

Till a’ the seas gang dry.

Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,

And the rocks melt wi’ the sun;

I will luve thee still, my dear,

While the sands o’ life shall run.

And fare thee weel, my only Luve,

And fare thee weel, a while!

And I will come again, my Luve,

Tho’ it were ten thousand mile.

This was probably a folk song adapted

by Burns. In the final seven years of his

life, he collected more than 300 traditional

Scottish songs, the most famous being

Auld Lang Syne and A Red, Red Rose.

Burns gave the latter to the composer

Pietro Urbani to publish because he was

too embarrassed to approach his usual

publisher, George Thomson, fearing that

the song would be regarded as ‘ludicrous’

and ‘absurd’.

The song first appeared in Urbani’s

Scots Songs (1794) with the explanation:

‘... the words of A Red, Red Rose were

obligingly given to him by a celebrated

Scots poet, who was so struck with them

when sung by a country girl that he wrote

them down, and, not being pleased with

the air, begged the author to set them to

music in the style of a Scots tune, which

he has done accordingly.’

Burns considered A Red, Red Rose

a song and set it to the melody Major

Graham’s Strathspey by the fiddler Niel

Gow. However, since 1821, it has been

sung to the tune Low Down In The

Broom. When you hear Timothy West

recite it so beautifully, it can equally be

considered to be a poem.

The song proved hugely influential.

Bob Dylan cited it as having had the

greatest effect on his music.

As you can see from its final line, it may

also have inspired Scotland’s alternative

national anthem, The Proclaimers song

I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles).

Gary Muir, Ayr.

QUESTION

Are shopping

centres designed

to disorientate customers?

THE phenomenon of walking into a

shopping centre, becoming enamoured

by the displays and wandering out with

an unintended purchase is known as

Gruen transfer.

Victor Gruen was an Austrian architect

who conceived the modern shopping mall

in the Fifties. In his early designs of store-

fronts on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, he

created some of the first window shop-

ping experiences, reducing the threshold

between the products and passers-by —

and converting them into shoppers.

His plan had been to give the suburbs a

sense of community, but it backfired when

managers began to use Gruen transfer as

a tactic to manipulate consumers into

buying more stuff.

The Swedish furniture giant Ikea has

mastered this art. Store designers nudge

you through a maze of products along a

path that is the least direct route to the

cash register. By the time you get there,

your trolley is probably full of things you

never considered buying on the way in.

Ella Stewart, Basingstoke, Hants.

QUESTION

Is it true that,

until recently,

Hawaii was mosquito-free?

MOSqUITOES were first recorded in

Hawaii in 1826. These southern house

mosquitoes (Culex quinquefasciatus)

likely arrived on a trading ship unloading

on the docks at Lahaina Harbour, Maui.

Four more species, Aedes albopictus

(Asian tiger mosquito), Aedes aegypti

(yellow fever mosquito), Aedes japonicus

(Asian bush mosquito) and Wyeomyia

mitchellii (bromeliad mosquito), were

accidentally introduced to Hawaii over

the next 150 years.

The very large elephant mosquito

(Toxorhynchites spp) was deliberately

introduced between 1929 and 1953,

because its offspring preys on the larvae

of other mosquitoes.

The arrival of mosquitoes coincided

with an outbreak of avian pox on the

island. This was probably imported

by non-native birds and was spread

to local birds by the mosquitoes. They

hadn’t encountered mosquito-borne

diseases, so had no immunity.

The disease accelerated a sharp decline

in the lowland native bird population. In

1900, several native species went extinct

following an outbreak of avian malaria

(Plasmodium relictum).

Dr Ken Warren, Glasgow.

QUESTION

Did Chuck Berry

write the Beach

Boys’ hit Surfin’ USA?

AS THE original answer pointed out,

Surfin’ USA was inspired by Berry’s

Sweet Little Sixteen — acknowledged

on later releases of the song.

However, the melody of Berry’s first

hit, Maybellene, was cribbed from the old

country song Ida Red. There’s nothing

new in the music business!

The assertion that the U.S. had

countered the British invasion with the

Beach Boys is wide of the mark.

Thanks to Surfin’ Safari in 1962 and

Surfin’ USA/Shut Down in 1963, the

Beach Boys were well-established before

The Beatles had their first U.S. hit, I

Want To Hold Your Hand, in early 1964.

The Beach Boys were never clones of

The Beatles. There was a rivalry of sorts

and, when the Beach Boys’ album Pet

Sounds came out in 1966, it had a great

effect on The Beatles. Paul McCartney

still describes God Only Knows as one

of the best songs/recordings of all time.

Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

was his own counter to Pet Sounds —

and what a response that was!

T. A. Cox, Malvern, Worcs.

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: What is the highest number of

cricketers selected by England in a

single series?

S. Robyns, Newark-on-Trent, Notts.

: Why are woollen jumpers

called sweaters?

Caroline Parks, Thirsk, N. Yorks.

: How did Hornchurch in Essex

get its name?

Ian Fairchild, Chedworth, Glos.

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Ingredients

Romantic: Poet Robert ‘Rabbie’ Burns

200g cooked

turkey or chicken,

cut into strips

4 tbsp hoisin sauce

2 flour tortillas

¼ cucumber,

deseeded and

shredded

4 spring onions,

trimmed and

finely shredded

Handful watercress

1 Heat grill to high. Mix the turkey or chicken

with half of the hoisin sauce, so that it’s

coated, then spread on to an ovenproof dish

and grill until sizzling. Warm the tortillas under

the grill or according to the pack instructions.

2 Spread the tortillas with the rest of the

sauce, then use them to wrap up the turkey

or chicken, along with the cucumber, onions

and watercress. Cut in half and eat warm.

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