Hello and welcome to a very special edition of Giles Coron has no idea. The cats

have eaten my homeworks and also my grandma died. So there is no column from me this weekend

therefore no podcast to discuss what to put in it. So instead we thought we'd bring

you an edition of my favourite part of my radio ship which is called Desit Island

crisps. This is where I take a famous celebrity shipwreck them on a desert island and force

them to regale us with stories about their favourite foods. Sadly we've not been able

to do these interviews during lockdown but I've dusted off the archives and bring you

the very first Desit Island crisps with everyone's favourite quiz show host Alexander Armstrong.

Thank you for coming. Normally we would do it if it weren't for the virus we'd be doing

this on a real Desit Island. Oh, I love it. Well, one of the Scottish ones. Oh, no.

With global warming you know. Oh, I see. Oh, it's just lockdown. We'd normally. We'd

move out to a Desit Island and you've had to dig in our homes. So thank you for coming

here. It's a pleasure. So I'm going to ask you what's your first, I mean I can see the

first piece of food we're going to talk about is a treacle sponge. Yes. I hope it's going

to take us back to the very near the beginning of Armstrong is here. Well, let's say it

does. Yes. I mean, it was a constant in the life of my grandparents house. If we were

to stay with them, this was a sort of standard, particularly Sunday lunch if we were there

for a weekend or whatever. Lemon chicken, absolute without fail and treacle sponge and a

weird pudding called junket. I've heard of junkets than only from doing historical

reenactment food TV. Well, listen, you should account to my grandparents house. How long

are they? Well, it's a while back. No, this was this is probably pre 2000. Yes, my grandmother

died in 2000. So yeah, any any time pre then when I was 30, so first 30 years of my life,

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