Margot and Jerry Leadbetter turn their noses up at Tom and Barbara's concoctions in The Good Life, and Reggie's son-in-law Tom makes an undrinkable nettle and parsnip wine in The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin.
The producer, Adam Marks from Cumbria, is a self-confessed chilli addict (he also makes infernal concoctions with super-hot naga peppers) but here the heat levels are more manageable.
The heart of the biodynamic garden is the compost heap, which is meticulously tended using plant-based concoctions.
In the early 1970s Miles Davis hoped to connect with a younger audience by recording unheard-of concoctions combining influences from Indian classical music and Karlheinz Stockhausen experimentations, a desire sadly thwarted by the album's marketing campaign.
What Lyon is really famous for is food but even the cuisine of Lyon, which sells itself as the best in France, is made up of robust and homely concoctions from blood and guts, tripes, andouillettes and quenelles, incarnating a 19th-century vision of provincial happiness rather than anything too cosmopolitan.
The concoctions keep coming.
Teslas use improved versions of industry-standard lithium-ion batteries, rather than any exotic concoctions put together by the battery guys.
The 17-strong Chinese delegation to the forum argued that the health benefits of tiger-bone wine and other concoctions are clear, and in high demand.
Coke's Simply juices and its lower-priced Minute Maid are taking share from the fruity concoctions of Pepsi's Tropicana.
They also encourage off-balance-sheet entities, such as conduits or structured-investment vehicles, because Basel 1 allows banks to set aside less capital for these semi-detached concoctions than for assets on their books.
Bill Gross, founder of PIMCO, a giant fund manager, thinks they may be banks' "most egregious" concoctions to date.
