This has come as a crushing disappointment to the management of the Acme
Soda Syphon Company, who had been anticipating a sales boom.
Last seen skidding along on her bottom in Dancing On Ice, Laila Morse returns to the Vic as gruff old Ma Mo on Thursday - and is immediately blasted with a
soda syphon by Alfie Moon (right).
Of course, there are lifestyle fads - how else to explain the demise of the pressure cooker,
soda syphon or toastie maker of the 1970s?
But every time we think he's grown up and - more importantly - WISED up, he squirts us in the face once more with the
soda syphon of his stupidity...
2 Corona tray, pounds 10, Kitschen Sync; Marilyn sign, pounds 19.99, Find The Three Daughters; switch plates and sockets, from pounds 15, The Edge range by MK Electrical; chrome blender, pounds 149, Waring; phone, pounds 48, Flying Duck; wooden bowl, from pounds 20, Johnson Bros; utensils and
soda syphon, stylist's own.
But his hit version of Oasis' Wonderwall is only the tip of the
soda syphon.
2 Scales, pounds 59.95, Divertimenti; glasses, pounds 2.99 for six, Rayware; Route 66 sign, pounds 9.99, Find the Three Daughters; ashtrays, pounds 12 each, Habitat;
soda syphon, pounds 12, Flying Duck; blind, pounds 88, Hillary's Blinds; juicer, Shebah's own.
7 Steel
soda syphon, pounds 38.20, Divertimenti; classic
soda syphon, pounds 39, Cucina Direct.
Splash out on a cocktail shaker, pounds 29.95, and
soda syphon, pounds 45, The Source (0171 937 2626)
But with their tinned rice pudding,
soda syphons and black forest gateaux, they seem like halycon days of the simple stuff compared with today's list of drinks on the blackboard of any Starbucks.
There's plenty of slapstick comedy around with the "splurge guns" and
soda syphons, and lots of fine, moody music from the young band.
I collect
soda syphons, which I get from 10p to pounds 1 at jumble sales.