Your Mum's pickled cucumber sound very much like the pickled gherkins that we used to be able to get in the chippy. I only ever had one, though my friends loved them. Far too vinegary. I preferred my chips just as they were - no salt, no vinegar and definitely no gherkin.
Biscuits - now that brings back a memory of going to a grocer's shop (was it Home and Colonial, or is that a different organisation. I'm sure it was Home and something) in the late 50's where they had boxes of biscuits with clear tops in front of the counter and you could buy half a pound of them, weighed out into a paper bag. Mum always bought half a pound of broken biscuits - that was a mixture of whatever had broken in the other boxes, so you never knew what you were getting. She also used to buy half a pound of mixed butter and margarine and the grocer mixed it from the big chunks of butter and margarine on the slab, using wooden butter pats. Around that time, we also stood in a huge queue to buy one banana, which she shared between my brother and myself. Ah yes, changed days.
@Antje77 how is Maurice getting on now?
You made me laugh out loud! 'Maurice' 's name is Maartje. But Maartje is definitely a feminine name in the Netherlands, which is a bit weird for a male cat like him (it always completely confuses everyone at the vets office, especially that time he was in to be neutered@Chook we/I tried out couple of different names, none seemed to quite suit, and in spite of persisting with one of them, for about two months the animal never responded to it. Just as well really because it was a feminine name and Cat turned out to be male.
I don't recall BHS selling food. My mother bought cheese at a shop that had several branches but they were only a local business. They also sold cheshire and wensleydale cheeses. I remember in M&S they didn't sell pre-packed fruit, you went to a counter and were served by someone. A neighbour of my aunt's worked on the counter for a while so we always liked to go in and say hello as she was a very nice person - always very jolly. I recall biscuits being sold loose at our local grocer's. It was what we would call a mini-market today. How different shopping was then - a and nicer I think, visiting several small shops where you knew the staff rather than going to huge supermarkets (although I avoid them as much as I can).Back in the day British Home Stores (which eventually changed its name to BHS before closing forever) used to sell biscuits sold by weight and of course the broken biscuits - and they also sold bread by weight (weird to think of that now) and bacon, ham and cheese by weight. They also sold eggs individually. I think with the cheese you got a choice of mature or mild cheddar. The bacon was a bit stranger - unsmoked in those days was called 'green' so Mum used to buy 'lean green streaky'.
I'm so glad you got home before the enema did its thing. So sorry you've got to go through the Picolax. Awful stuff!
@Mauriac - my Mum couldn't cook to save her life. She had never cooked before she met my Father and after that he did all the complicated stuff. Our family is convinced that Ria out of the 70s show 'Butterflies ' was based on Mum. She could burn water. When she married my stepfather (in her 50s) he paid for her to attend private cookery lessons - the woman doing the tutoring gave hum a refund after three weeks. Technology finally caught up with her and she came in to her own with microwave ovens and M&S chilled ready meals.
I don't recall BHS selling food. My mother bought cheese at a shop that had several branches but they were only a local business. They also sold cheshire and wensleydale cheeses. I remember in M&S they didn't sell pre-packed fruit, you went to a counter and were served by someone. A neighbour of my aunt's worked on the counter for a while so we always liked to go in and say hello as she was a very nice person - always very jolly. I recall biscuits being sold loose at our local grocer's. It was what we would call a mini-market today. How different shopping was then - a and nicer I think, visiting several small shops where you knew the staff rather than going to huge supermarkets (although I avoid them as much as I can).
How do you make them? Do I want to make them as well?Peking style ribs
Sorry @Antje77 they were bought ready made fromTesco, just chucked them in the oven!How do you make them? Do I want to make them as well?
I occasionally have a home delivery (mainly if I need bulky or heavy items and I've got one coming on Sunday which is mainly loo and kitchen rolls and canned drinks) but in the main I go out to the shops as it gets me out and I get to see and speak to people. I shop largely at the Little Waitrose and the M&S Simply Food near me and also some small independents. After many years, I know quite a lot of the staff in these shops and chat to them. It makes shopping a more pleasant experience and widens my world, which has narrowed significantly in recent years.They didn't by the time they changed the name to BHS - the two stores i remember sold the food upstairs.
LOL I avoid supermarkets as much as possible by having home delivery but we do go to a butcher for Mr C's meat. My village has, over the years, lost virtually all its lovely little shops all we have left is a butcher (astronomically expensive) and a bakers which runs out of bread every day by lunchtime.
I guess the answer is a clear 'Yes I want them' then!Sorry @Antje77 they were bought ready made fromTesco, just chucked them in the oven!
You should have said they were made to an old family recipe, handed down from your Chinese great, great grandmother who came to the UK in the 19th century and you have been sworn to secrecy as to its details.Sorry @Antje77 they were bought ready made from Tesco, just chucked them in the oven!
ohmigod droooooooool. I love sprouts anyway, but I've never had them with blue cheese and bacon and this sounds HEAVENLY. Just checked my fridge and I have all three in stock. Guess what I'm having for lunch tomorrow!!!!I thouroughly enjoyed my first sprouts of the year. After cooking and draining I added sharp blue cheese to the pot until melted and had some crispy fried bacon rashers on top.
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