“Maltesers have the less-fattening centre. Well, yes, but they are covered in chocolate! That's like saying 'I'll have a mineral water, please. Can you put some cubes of lard in it?”

—  Linda Smith

Packet of Three, Channel 4, 1991
Stand-up

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