RE: OUR MEMORIES OF GROWING UP - 15

#211 by Slow Jo , Wed Jan 01, 2014 7:44 pm

We were lucky lyn my mom was always there for us ,never remember going home and she was'nt there.

#212 by astoness , Wed Jan 01, 2014 7:50 pm

Quote: Slow Jo wrote in post #211
We were lucky lyn my mom was always there for us ,never remember going home and she was'nt there.

same here jo..im the eldest of 6 but mom was always there...count myself very lucky that i had a lovely childhood i know that so many were not so lucky...think we were talking about dripping on toast a few days back..on monday i went to the butchers and bought some...

#213 by Sheldonboy , Wed Jan 01, 2014 8:05 pm

Quote: astoness wrote in post #212
Quote: Slow Jo wrote in post #211
We were lucky lyn my mom was always there for us ,never remember going home and she was'nt there.

same here jo..im the eldest of 6 but mom was always there...count myself very lucky that i had a lovely childhood i know that so many were not so lucky...think we were talking about dripping on toast a few days back..on monday i went to the butchers and bought some...

Lyn does your Butcher sell Toast then?

#214 by astoness , Wed Jan 01, 2014 8:08 pm

you are silly SB

#215 by Slow Jo , Wed Jan 01, 2014 8:17 pm

We had bread and lard with a bit of brown sauce on,and a few days back mincemeat on toast.,lovely.

#216 by astoness , Wed Jan 01, 2014 8:20 pm

Quote: Slow Jo wrote in post #215
We had bread and lard with a bit of brown sauce on,and a few days back mincemeat on toast.,lovely.

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well ive never heard of mincemeat on toast jo...

#217 by lynne webb , Wed Jan 01, 2014 8:22 pm

We used to have a stick of rhubarb and a little bag of sugar to dip it in..

#218 by Sheldonboy , Wed Jan 01, 2014 8:27 pm

Quote: astoness wrote in post #216
Quote: Slow Jo wrote in post #215
We had bread and lard with a bit of brown sauce on,and a few days back mincemeat on toast.,lovely.
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well ive never heard of mincemeat on toast jo...

does anyone know why the Mince Pie kind of Mincemeat is so called. There is obviously no meat in it (I think).

#219 by Slow Jo , Wed Jan 01, 2014 8:35 pm

Try mincemeat on toast lyn you may be suprised,my wife started me on it .

#220 by Slow Jo , Wed Jan 01, 2014 8:39 pm

On telly before christmas a chef said it use to have proper mince in them in victorian times they were more of a savoury ,but over the years it has changed to more of a sweet,thats all Iknow about it.

#221 by astoness , Wed Jan 01, 2014 8:39 pm

Quote: Slow Jo wrote in post #219
Try mincemeat on toast lyn you may be suprised,my wife started me on it .

i shall give it a go jo..

#222 by Sheldonboy , Wed Jan 01, 2014 8:49 pm

Quote: astoness wrote in post #221
Quote: Slow Jo wrote in post #219
Try mincemeat on toast lyn you may be suprised,my wife started me on it .

i shall give it a go jo..

Lyn it's food of course you will give it a go.

#223 by mikejee , Wed Jan 01, 2014 10:24 pm

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mince_pie .I gather, though I have not yet viewed it, that the "Monastery at christmas" program had the original, and they were pretty awful

#224 by Slow Jo , Fri Jan 03, 2014 11:31 am

Anyone remember the wimpy bars you could go in get a burger and a coffee use to be a meeting place for young people,then Mc donalds moved in and pushed them out .Also in villa road handsworth use to be a ice cream parlour called the polar bear, who remembers that,I was only a kid then,thats going back a bit.

#225 by denniscarole ( deleted ) , Fri Jan 03, 2014 12:07 pm

I really don't know how anybody in this day and age could eat bread and dripping. I couldn't even eat it in days gone by.

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