Bay leaves are cooked in with soups and stews because they add flavour. and they also smell wonderful, but you can’t actually eat them: they’re far too leathery and bitter. It would be like trying to eat aromatic brown paper.
Our cat Plush disappeared after we had a plumber in to do some work on the beth. We spent hours looking for him – and he could meow. The little sod was sitting underneath the sink, behind the panelling, listening to us calling him.
The famous Border collie Chaser was able to work that out. If shown a basket of objects for which she knew the names of all but one, and then told to select the [word she didn’t know], she was able to work out that the unfamiliar word must refer to the unfamiliar object.
Porringer.