KEEN AS MUSTARD
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For those of you truckers out there who enjoy a generous dollop of English mustard with your roast beef, here's another reason why you should always keep a tin of Colman's handy.
Sixty-seven-year-old charity driver Richard Kite was delivering life-saving supplies to Romania when the radiator in the lorry he was driving sprang a leak. Richard, a retired BP engineer, feared he would have to abandon the truck and make his own way home to Aberdeen.
Now they might be short of spares in Romania but they aren't short of ingenuity, and local mechanics recommended mustard to plug the leak_ "I put the first teaspoonful of Colman's into the water in the radiator and it certainly appeared to work," says Richard. "But I had to add a bit more every time I stopped."
That's the thing with powdered mustard; it's always a devil to get the water/mustard ratio just right.