If you like sausages, don’t work in a smallgoods factory

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When JC was little he was sent to Australia to work in a Bacon, Ham and Smallgoods factory near a prison in a settlement called Wacol on the outskirts of Brisbane. There he learned many things — not least of which was that if you like sausages, you should not work in such a place.

Also, what a “long weight” is.