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Davis plays Da Mayor, a shambling souse who’s by turns tolerated, mocked and valued by younger people, while Dee’s Mother Sister mostly watches the world pass by.

The briny taste of her souse, pickled pigs’ feet served in an acidic brine, recalled the salty waves.

“I suggest souse,” remarked George, who had been listening to the conversation from across the room.

Specialty products include beef hot dogs, cocktail sausages and hot or mild souse under the Magnolia brand.

There was also the more popular, and often overlooked, dimension of Roget’s work: his was a new kind of lexicon that acknowledged colloquialisms and – horrors – slang, for example, “wassail”, “swig”, “soak”, “souse”, “booze”, and “guzzle”.