Shorter & Sons ceramic cruet set, from Stoke-on-Trent.

There were various other surreal items from which to enjoy your fish and chips from…

I wonder if there’s enough of this sort of thing out there, for the Potteries Museum to put on a “Surreal Stoke” exhibition of the best of it? Start with the strangest of the Longton Hall pottery, and hipster teapots of the 1760s, and work forward. Some of the Woods of Burslem teapots should probably be in there.