Whether we eat goose or gander, we have the same apple sauce with it, so what is good for one is good for the other. If Barry plays a practical joke on George, then complains when George does the same thing to him, George can say: ‘What’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. Fair’s is fair. ‘
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