Mark Diacono says: "Wash, stone and whizz the fruit in a processor, sieve to remove any skins or stringy bits and mix one part fruit purée to three parts sparkling white wine."

Often animal hair, straw and dung is mixed with the mud so that the fibres (stringy bits) help hold it together.

But be advised that even when properly cooked until golden, sheep's testicles have a floury texture that's hard to get over, not to mention stringy bits that stick in your teeth.

We did in fact receive a small tobacco ration every day, but this was only machorka, the stringy bits of leaves that are left over from the making of papyrossi.

Some of the ravens were still eating, long stringy bits of meat dangling from their beaks.

So fired-up was Hemingway for conch chowder that, on pulling into Key West after little sleep, we headed straight for a famous restaurant, where we ate what seemed like a spicier Manhattan clam chowder nubbed with chewy, stringy bits - conch that had been removed from its shell, pounded and ground.

Taste: Some tasters had a problem with all the bits and pieces in this cereal, including some odd stringy bits, finding more morning conflict than breakfast harmony.

Daniel Boone was dressed in a green jacket with a white collar and stringy bits hanging off the sleeves.

The bone's brittleness appeared stark and white against clots of drying blood that had begun forming around stringy bits of gristle and flesh.

Reeblies, and I've never heard the word since I left home, are little salted flour dumplings that you make when you rub a spicy dough real fast on a board and stringy little bits fly off.