24 SEPTEMBER 1965, Page 6

A Nip in the Air

The principle is that you have a food factory that would produce in bulk. The basic idea is to cook food, deep-freeze it, and then re-heat it when required.—Mr. Proby, the Bursar of Eton, on com- munity feeding.

Freeze, freeze, ye winter peas Although you do not please As those more fresh from pod.

Yet schoolboys must not sulk If you are cooked in bulk And taste a trifle odd.

Heigh ho, sing heigh ho, for it is thus resolved The servant question's solved.

First freeze, and then re-heat,

When boys require to eat.

CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS