straight to your inbox every day for freeOf all the virtual lockdown calls, the most surreal was submitting questions for Jesse Lingard while he sat at his kitchen counter in front of a bowl of pistachios.Rather than allow face-time with reporters, a pistachios company arranged for a conversation between Lingard, a nutritionist named Nigel and an enthusiastic American lady whose carefree demeanour suggested her house backed onto Venice Beach.Questions had to be typed into a widget and were chosen selectively.
One of the newspaper reporters became so frustrated their questions were being ignored they asked Lingard: "How many pistachios do you eat a day?" The question was relayed verbatim without a flicker of sarcasm.
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