Aisling Bea

It's literally served in a dish.

So I'd say we can call it a dish.

My mother makes a thing called a lemon bomb.

And it is notorious with anyone who's come to ever visit my mother's house.

Because the lemon bomb can give you a bit of a lemon bum.

It is made of basically cream, sugar and shaved lemon.

And it's been my mother's go-to dessert to make for people since the 1980s, which is the same probably lemon balm she keeps in the freezer.

She defrosts it, gets out a slice for a guest, puts it back in the freezer.

One time my cousin Lorraine found an earwig in her slice.

And I was going out with someone who had ulcerative colitis, which is a very serious disease.

Luckily, he'd been in remission for a while until he had my mother as a lemon balm.

And then it set off a period of ill health.

And she said that was down to weakness.

But it was...

Absolutely, because that lemon balm had been in that freezer for as long as freezers have been invented, I'd say.

An earwig?

An earwig.

I mean, like, I don't mind that, that's natural.

And clearly, at one point, it had been... Because you make it in a bowl and then freeze it, and then you turn it up and go, ta-da, and then you take it off and it's just a helmet of cream.

Oh, no.