A mum ‘howled with laughter’ after her elderly parents asked her to buy them more ‘gorgeous pate’ – only to discover they had eaten a tin of cat food. Angela Holloway has been shopping for her mum Margaret Lincoln and step-dad Donald Lincoln throughout the coronavirus crisis, but usually separates the pet food from the rest of the shopping. That meant the 59-year-old was confused last week when her mum told her they had eaten ‘a really lovely dinner of absolutely gorgeous pate and baked bread’. The Sheffield couple, who now live in France, were eating with Angela’s sister Beverly Weston – but no one had noticed the cat on the packaging, and they struggle to read French labelling..... 