NOSTALGIA

[Garry Russell]

Until I left for Latvia I still used to get chips and batter bits as we called them.

Really healthy...lot's of vinegar and plenty of salt...couldn't eat much but really tasty...I think they were free locally.

[Tomliner]

Ah! so many memories here.Batter bits,perfect when you hadn't got enough money for chips,let alone fish, and condensed milk etc. Did anyone here ever have a condensed milk sandwich? Or even better,a brown sauce sandwich? Of course the height of luxury was a beef dripping sandwich,especially if you managed to get some of the brown beef jelly with the dripping.Makes me feel quite hungry thinking about it.I expect that my GP would have a coronary attack just thinking about it,miserable sod! EricT

[nigelb]

Many memories for me also! I do remember we had no telephone, fridge and no central heat until we got to the Colonies. Fireplace in the living room and a stove in the kitchen were the only source of heat.

Nigel²

[Airspeed]

Hobby said:
A game in the road - knock up ginger! & kick the can.

How times HAVE changed....these now often translate as:
"getting a redhead pregnant" and
"being a woman, dressed a man"

Imagine playing THAT in the street back then .....

Oh, yeah - dripping sandwiches, especially the brown bits, crunchy "condemned milk" and sauce or sugar sandwiches, YUM! And you're right - we live to tell the tale!
The first meat that I learnt to cook was lamb's fry, btw.

A science programme on TV recently discussed the benefits of eating fatty food, because it is satisfying, so you tend not to go back for more. Participants actually lost weight when they tried it.

[Garry Russell]

People ate more fat in the fifties...they burned it off with walking to work and kids playing out

[Dev One]

Ah! so many memories here.Batter bits,perfect when you hadn't got enough money for chips,let alone fish, and condensed milk etc. Did anyone here ever have a condensed milk sandwich? Or even better,a brown sauce sandwich? Of course the height of luxury was a beef dripping sandwich,especially if you managed to get some of the brown beef jelly with the dripping.Makes me feel quite hungry thinking about it.I expect that my GP would have a coronary attack just thinking about it,miserable sod! EricT

Not forgetting the brown layer at the bottom in Pork dripping! & yes condensed milk sandwiches as well as tomato ketchup ones. The brown sauce I think was HP, or was it Daddy's? There was also a fruity tasting one that I can't remember the name of at the moment.......now that is getting old! Treacle or Golden syrup sandwiches.....wasn't too keen on the treacle ones - too strong a taste.
Keith

[Vancouver]

Many memories for me also! I do remember we had no telephone, fridge and no central heat until we got to the Colonies. Fireplace in the living room and a stove in the kitchen were the only source of heat.

Nigel²

The telephone! I remember well how proud my mum was when we got our first. it was a big ugly black Bakelite thing with a drawer in its base. It was a party line, you'd pick it up to make a call and someone else somewhere was already making a call. That thing was so heavy you could commit a murder with it. What would kids today think of it. Happy times .... actually I really think they were happier times, kids today walk aboot with their faces tripping them. They are so hard done by.

[dodger]

Hi Gents,

Last year while on holiday while waiting for fish and chips i asked for a bag of crackling and was told No as it was Health and Safety now,

Funny enough i do have a Condensed milk sandwich for tea now and again, to my wife's Horror

Pork Dripping ! Ah

Roger.

[Filonian]

Not forgetting Syrup of Figs,

All the replies along with this, and nobody has mentioned the dreaded "cod liver oil"



Graham

[dodger]

Not forgetting Syrup of Figs,

All the replies along with this, and nobody has mentioned the dreaded "cod liver oil"



Graham

Oh No I do take the capsule every day and did try the liquid Once! what with that and Tripe i don't think i have tasted anything so horid

Roger.