Thirty minuters
Thirty minuters

Notes, &c.

We are barrelling towards the next story, CHRISTMAS SPECIAL. Lottie’s representation of pumpkin spice is Ginger Spice at the Brit Awards in 1997 with a gourd on her head. I don’t think there is any better way to depict it. My favourite disgusting Christmas coffee drinks were the Costa (or possibly Caffe Nero) range where the cups depicted seasonal bodies eg snowman, Santa, elf but there was no head and the cream and sugary syrup slurry on top made it look like the Xmas Friends had been brutally decapitated.

I believe the following year, they had half-heads, so they’d effectively had the Lucy Liu Kill Bill treatment. The murder sludge was toned down but that made it look like brains.

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