Australians don't like long words. Anything longer than 3 syllables gets shortened and appended with a 'ie' or 'o' suffix. 'Wine Drinking Alcoholic' becomes 'wino', 'Premature Babies' becomes 'Premmies'.
And so while listening to the news on Friday we heard: "Virgin Blue chicken sandwiches cause 2 premmies in Queensland". Obviously Emma jumped from her seat saying: That's me! That's me!
Okay, so here is the full story:
On the flight to Perth, about 2 months ago, hungry Emmanuelle ordered a scrumptious chicken sandwich. That sandwich was contaminated with the Listeria bacteria that, 58 days later cause the premature birth of our son.
Virgin Blue was quick to add: It wasn't us! it was the evil sandwich maker we hire to make our in-flight food.
So Virgin Blue underpays the evil sandwich maker, who can't keep up standards because of the low price Virgin Blue is willing to pay, yet Virgin Blue sells this food on planes at sky high prices (and I'm not talking about the cruise altitude). B.T.W. Listeria is extremely rare (about 50 cases per year in Oz).
Our son, is doing fine, or so the doctors tell us. We are pretty sure he's being watched a little closer than your average premmie as the QLD government has stated that 'fortunately both premmies are doing well'.
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