The Profligate Pastry-Cook's mb-width 1005 Gordon Banks

Gordon Banks

The car first appeared in 1955

Saturday 7th May 1955

though production did not begin until 1949

Shentleman of Wales

The Profligate Pastry-Cook's mb-width 1005 Gordon Banks'The Profligate Pastry Cook's', 1860. This cartoon depicts a family of elderly mother, daughter and daughter's young children, taking lunch in a restaurant. This represents the typical middle class family. However, Punch is poking fun at the typical middle class family who waste their money on French foods, such as veal and wine. Many things French, particularly literature, were at the time considered to be full of immorality, and, it appears, their