I hope all of your doughnuts turn out like Fannies

[Mortartube]

Did Johnny Craddock ever say this of his wifes doughnuts in their cookery programme, or is it all an urban myth?

[heathfield]

No myth, I was lucky enough to have been watching the program where he said it!
If I remember right, he actually said, 'And if you follow the recipe, all your doughnuts will look like Fannies!'.

[Quizmonster]

That's "Fanny's", folks!

[Mortartube]

Thanks for the reply and thanks for the correction Quizmonster.
Truth is stranger than fiction. LOL

[Quizmonkey]

To be even more pedantic, it's Cradock, not Craddock...

[Mortartube]

Pedantic! Isn't that a large ocean between Britain and America?

[Quizmonster]

Given that the whole joke depends on the fact that, while Johnnie said "Fanny's" = belonging to Fanny, everyone pretends to have misheard it as "fannies" = the plural of "fanny"...it's not really 'pedantic' to point that out, surely.

[Grunty]

Pedantic is when you know something that somebody else doesn't know.

[andy-hughes]

Actually Grunty, pedantic means having a narrow and fussy interest in detail, which is not the same as pointing out a fact known to the writer, and not the reader(s).

QM is quite right - he is not being pedantic - the spelling and perceived meaning of JC's statement is integral to the humour of mis-interperation, so he is underlining a salient point, not picking out detail needlessly.

[heathfield]

QM, it's not on record whether Johnny meant one thing or the other!
What is on record is that they didn't get on at all well, and he was definitely the under-dog. So he just might have been playing with words on that occasion.
I like to think so!

[Quizmonster]

Thanks for that, Andy.
Whichever way around Johnnie might have meant it, H, there remains a differentiation to be made, even if it is only that the 'f' in 'fannies' should - if your suggested interpretation is correct - be lower case rather than upper!
(A ghastly pair in toto, in my view.)

[Athley]

Is still funny however you spell it!

[andy-hughes]

I confess I barely remember them as a child when they were on, but I recall who scary FC seemed with her deep voice and OTT make-up. i like to think people who are such grotesques wouldn't get TV space these days, but then I think of Anthony Worrall-Thompson ... and i think maybe they would!

[CovKid]

What do they taste like?