1) Egalitarian coffee: the coffee packet says "for all kinds of coffee maker". There's a wonderful inclusiveness there. "Hey, you! Even though you're ugly and you smell, you can still make coffee with me!"
2) Only Fools and Horses: why do I have OFaH snobbery? Why do I automatically think less of someone who finds it funny?
3) Apple flavour: I've tasted any number of apple flavoured products - they all taste the same, and yet none of them taste of any variety of apple I've ever eaten.
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My father used to work as an agent for the bedding company 'Silentnight'. In the very early 80s he delivered a bed to the house of one David Jason, who was still pretty obscure at this point. My father knew of him from 'I'm sorry I'll read that again' (AKA 'The Agnus Prune Show') and 'Do Not Adjust Your Set', both pre-Python shows (radio & TV).
Whilst chatting, Mr.Jason said he was working on a new show called 'Only Fools and Horses' based around the idea that this bloke liked to bandy around the idea that work was for idiots (the show's name coming from an archaic expression 'Why do only fools and horses work?'). The central irony was that the lead character worked like a trojan while trying very hard to give every appearance of not needing to. Apparently he was quite excited about the idea, and thought there was some mileage in it..
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