A custard wind may sound delicious, but it’s actually a type of cold easterly wind along the northeast coast of England. This expression is likely an adaptation of coastward wind. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Serve Me Up a Custard Wind”
Here’s one of my new favorite terms, custard wind.
Isn’t that beautiful?
Custard wind?
Custard wind.
It’s a type of wind.
It’s any of the cold easterly winds that are prevalent on the northeast coast of England in the spring.
And custard wind may derive from the word coastward because, you know, they’re going toward the coast.
So it’s not about a perfect froth at the tip of the waves that the wind brings up.
No, but that’s beautiful.
I would love to read a poem about custard wind.
I know.
And you just have to have the right kind of sweater and wear the wellingtons and walk along the beach with a stick to poke the sand and see what you could find.
I could envision that day.
Can you envision that day?
Yeah, I was thinking of carrying a spoon and a custard with me.
And you come back and your cheeks are red from the brisk breeze.
And there’s a, I was thinking of coming back to a warm custard pie is what I was thinking.
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