> Mexico is a major producer of these fruits, which explains why a Mexican soda has it as a flavor. Thailand and India are also major producer, and it turns out that tamarinds are frequent ingredients in Thai and Indian food.

Lea and Perrin's sauce (a bitter concoction used to "spice up" cheese on toast in the UK) contains tamarinds and anchovies, acoording to it's ingredients list.

Spotting this one day a few years ago, my brother and I thought there was an ambiguity in the labelling - was it the tamarind fruit, or the breed of monkey?

Logically, we decided it was the monkey, and therefore "Lea and Perrin" sauce was fish and monkey sauce.

Maybe, we conjectured further using our adolescent intellectual prowess, that Lea and Perrin were the names of the fish and monkey first used in the sauce's production.

"Perrin the monkey?" I asked of my brother.
"No," he scolded me, "Perrin's a stupid name for a monkey. The fish was called Perrin."

And thus the mystery was solved.

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