Serving suggestion

For years I had, in a little notebook I carried with me at all times (OK it was a Woolworth’s pocket diary), a list of matters to “write about”.

Back then, “writing about” didn’t mean a weblog, because they didn’t exist.  In my case, it meant starting a thread adding a comment on a bulletin board system called Monochrome.  (Maybe I will write more about Monochrome another time).

I never did get around to writing about most of those things, but the only one I really remember just now is “serving suggestion”. I don’t know why it came to mind after all these years, but a few moments of Googling reveals I don’t need to spend any time pontificating about it. As usual, there is one answer in wikipedia (Serving_suggestion), but in finding a discussion here, I discovered the wonderful Common Sense Consultancy site, which is just Right Up My Street.