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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Stuart Heritage

Gravy cocktail, anyone? Wallace & Gromit’s cheese-free dining venture is far from cracking

Say cheese, Gromit! … Wallace & Gromit in their latest film Vengeance Most Fowl.
Say cheese, Gromit! … Wallace & Gromit in their latest film Vengeance Most Fowl. Photograph: Aardman Animations

Ever since A Grand Day Out was released in 1989, we as a nation have grasped Wallace & Gromit to our collective heart like nothing else. We’ve watched them for decades, falling in love with their Rube Goldberg inventions, their nostalgic mid-century charm and their fingerprint-flecked faces. Wallace & Gromit is this country’s specialist subject. Their lives are ingrained into ours, and as such there is nothing about them that we don’t know.

For instance, when you think of Wallace & Gromit, one foodstuff instantly springs to mind. A food that has propelled Wallace & Gromit narratives and inspired Wallace & Gromit catchphrases alike. Of course, I am referring to gravy.

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