Gradually, they are emptying out their freezers and working through their larder of cans of assorted foods, leading to what Mrs. Franks described as "some very strange dinners".
This was all brought home to me last week, when I had one of the strangest dinner conversations I've ever had.
Things get a bit strange at dinner.
Four shadowy figures sit on high-backed chairs, like guests at a strange, gloomy dinner party.
"Breakfast pancakes" — a stack of silver-dollar-size pancakes layered with chopped fluke, copious salmon roe, and a spicy yogurt sauce — is strange for dinner, or anytime.
He started getting ill, so Steve Norman [Spandau Ballet saxophonist] and I tried to stop him [they once invited Strange round for dinner at Norman's, locked him in a bedroom and got a Harley Street doctor to come round and treat him].
Maybe you've been invited to a strange multi-culti dinner at Benihana and feel uncomfortable enough in your own skin to want to look the part?
In 1962, powerful Hollywood columnist Hedda Hopper held a strange and intimate dinner party, hosting rival movie stars Joan Crawford and Bette Davis for a truce meal at her home on Tropical Avenue in Beverly Hills, an elegant brick colonial Hopper winkingly called "the house that fear built". .
Dinner's a strange affair - strangely successful.
