Go on! You know want to!

My neighbours did their washing, and hung it out to dry. I was walking past their clothesline when I noticed one of their tea towels. It was hanging upside down, and at first, I didn’t understand it, so I stopped and had a closer look before taking this photo.

In the middle there’s a big, tempting éclair filled with cream and jam. You might not be able to read the capital letters at the top of the tea towel (the bottom in this photo), but they say: THE FATKINS DIET.

When people go on a diet, they try to lose weight, so they avoid things like cream and sugar, but this éclair has lots of both. If you eat too many eclairs, you’ll get fat.

Most English speakers would think this tea towel is funny, but not because they’re laughing at being fat.

Here’s why they might think it’s funny. There’s a famous diet calledThe Atkins Diet, named after the doctor who invented it. Someone thought it would be funny to put an F in front of his name to make Fatkins and print it on this tea towel. Ha ha!

There are other words at the bottom of the tea towel (the top in this photo), but they’re smaller, so they might be hard to read. That’s why I’ve turned the photo upside down here. It’s strange to see the sky and the clouds and the roof at the bottom and the ground up above.