A flange is a metalic flan or
quiche which forms the staple food for robots. Although robots do also enjoy snacking on staples, staples are not the staple food.
The first flange was baked in 1736 (that's just after
25 minutes to six) by Mrs
Helen Highwater of Wales. This original flange was cooked to a prehistoric Italian recipe, using a simple combination of copper and iron. Today, the copper and iron flange is called Flange Lorraine or Flance Margharitta, both of which mean "plain and boring, somewhat tasteless, but nevertheless cheap and therefore relatively good value for
money flange".
Mrs Highwater fed the original flange to her favourite robotic
sheep, LLangchgoch-
gowbylloflen-
ogocgochgoch-
llanllanlllan. The
sheep, together with the remains of the flange, can be seen in the International Museum of Flanges in the United States city of Baghdad.
The development of the flange was
slow at first, until the Great Staple Crisis of 1987, which led to the establishment of the LLangochgochllogowbyllof
llenogochgochgochllanl
lanllllllllan Flange Export Company. The flange was simultaneously patented by
Microsoft, Apple computer, Wikimedia, Mozilla and Coca Cola in the
USA, but in the rest of the world is manufacturered solely by anyone.
