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( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 17 May 2012, 14:43, 1 reply, 12 years ago)

The UK's first Meat Raffle was held in a The Sordid Incident pub in Scarborough in 1896.
The idea came from the French tradition of Le Gambol Pâté.
The regular Friday night event became famous across the country. However, amazingly, it was only after nearly a year that they discovered the tickets should go in the whirly-roundy-box thing and the meat should go in the suspiciously unmarked polythene bag.
The error was noticed by a passing Frenchman who said "'Ere, you eenleesh peegs, why ave you not put the handfuls of unsanitary looking pâté in thees suspishible polythene sac san marking? Et why ave you instead put zee billets du raffle in it?"
(The Personality Horse www.tinyurl.com/perhor, Thu 17 May 2012, 15:31, Reply)