British Bon-Bons

[Rolf Olsson]

><Don Larsson> notes:
>"Perhaps the second most famous noisome sweets after those in
>GR must be the ones from the hilarious Monty Python skit:
>Crunchy Frog, the bonbon loaded with flesh-piercing springs,
>etc.  Now:  in which direction, chronologically, does the
>influence run?
>TRP to MP, or vice versa?"
>
>
>Actually, TRP is of an age to be influenced by Python's predecessor in the
>WackyBrits category: the Beyond the Fringe group, which included Dudley
>Moore (who
>actually was funny once), Peter Cook, Alan Bennett (last seen directing THE
>MADNESS OF KING GEORGE), and Renaissance Man Dr. Jonathan Miller (who's
>directed
>a couple of fine British/PBS series on the human body and on madness).
>Cook and Moore in particular had a sketch about a bad and pretentious
>restaurant
>called THE FROG AND PEACH  whose specialities were "Frog a la Peche" and
>"Peche a la Frog."
>
>Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)

Reminds me of an episode in the Robert A Heinlein novel "Glory Road" from 1963.
The hero Scar Gordon is served small froglike animals in ice and when he is
just about
to take a bite, the bonbon awakes, roll his eyes and look at  him.

Needless to say that Scar loses his apetite...