What Are Gristicks?

[Cloverjo]

For context, I'm reading a book of 1970s articles by Jilly Cooper. The sentence is about adulterous couples "hiding behind the celery and gristicks" in restaurants 🤔 

 

[TheWinner]

perhaps it means grissini sticks

[seekeerz]

If that's the thin Italian bread sticks, then I think you're probably right 😀

[Cloverjo]

That makes sense. Thank you, TheWinner

[Cloverjo]

They'd need rather a lot of them and celery sticks to hide behind. Maybe they make big fans out of them. Very subtle!

[Buenchico]

I'm sure that TW has the right answer.  (I could picture the things in my mind but I didn't know what they're called).

Interestingly though (in my opinion, at least), the grissini that Italians actually call 'Gristicks' aren't as thin as regular grissini are:
https://www.amazon.it/Croccavita-Gristicks-Semi-Girasole-120/dp/B01E469466/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

[Buenchico]

The rest of the quote is worth reading too!
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7247066-i-adore-watching-other-people-in-restaurants-beautiful-people-toying

[Peter Pedant]

the context you need for Jilly Cooper is that for uears she wrote pages of copy about her blissfully happy marriage

and then found out Leo ( hubby, silly!) had had a mistresy for 26 y

[TheWinner]

PP, I know, what a shocker.

[netibiza]

Bread sticks