At Samson's wedding, he posed a riddle to his thirty Philistine groomsmen:
Out of the eater came forth meat,
Out of the strong came forth sweetness.
I hope he told them that they were supposed to guess a scene, for I could make neither head nor tail of the riddle at first.
The answer is the scene depicted on the tin of Lyle's Golden Syrup. Fascinating. (The rest of the story between Samson and the Philistines is however rather violent and testosterone-filled I am afraid.)
Note: I have seen and prefer a more rhyming phrasing: "Out of the eater came forth meat, out of the strong something sweet". However, the above is what appears in Abram Lyle's bible and the King James' bible.
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