Food I/we used to (happily) eat.

[Poacher]

Stuffed chine. Never really liked it even before I went piscatarian. Pointed out some in a butcher's in Wainfleet to my mate Crazy Nick a few years ago. He sampled it and was so impressed that he tried making some. I think it's fair to say that his long-suffering wife and daughter were not as impressed as he had been.

 

[Dirk]

Pike and Eels.
My grandfather was a keen fisherman.

 

[Mrs M]

Pickled onions and cheese on a cocktail stick.
Tinned chocolate sponge pudding.

 

[stephec]

No super wagon wheels, my mum worked somewhere connected to the factory, and she used to buy the reject ones in a paper bag for 2p each I think. And the reason they were reject..... Because they had been double coated with chocolate. The proper ones in shops have never lived up to those reject ones!

I used to buy them when I visited the factory where they were made in Cwmbran, best ever from the staff shop was 150 for £3.00.

 

[Trickedem]

Arrowroot biscuits after swimming. Like a big Rich Tea.
For those of a military bent: Biscuits AB and Oatmeal Blocks.

 

[steveindenmark]

We still buy dripping and bacon bits from the Supermarket in Denmark.

Chickling..........or was that just a Hull thing? Nothing yo do with chickens. Not tripe but something similar. Any Hullites on here?

Scraping the home made cake mix out of the Bowl when mum was baking.

You would obviously die of salmonella poisioning if you did that now.

 

[Dirk]

We still buy dripping and bacon bits from the Supermarket in Denmark.

Chickling..........or was that just a Hull thing? Nothing yo do with chickens. Not tripe but something similar. Any Hullites on here?

Scraping the home made cake mix out of the Bowl when mum was baking.

You would obviously die of salmonella poisioning if you did that now.

Chitterlings?

 

[Poacher]

Chickling..........or was that just a Hull thing? Nothing yo do with chickens. Not tripe but something similar. Any Hullites on here?

Are you sure you don't mean chitterlings?

Damn! beaten to it by @Dirk Thrust

 

[steveindenmark]

Are you sure you don't mean chitterlings?

Damn! beaten to it by @Dirk Thrust

Thats the one. We used to call it Chitlins. It was forced upon us as kids, but I liked it with salt. Is it still sold?

 

[Sara_H]

No super wagon wheels, my mum worked somewhere connected to the factory, and she used to buy the reject ones in a paper bag for 2p each I think. And the reason they were reject..... Because they had been double coated with chocolate. The proper ones in shops have never lived up to those reject ones!

My Mum worked in the Bassets factory when I was a small girl - we never saw a normal shaped sweet until she left!

 

[Poacher]

Thats the one. We used to call it Chitlins. It was forced upon us as kids, but I liked it with salt. Is it still sold?

'Appen so! The old ways of using every part of a pig except the squeal linger on in deepest Lincolnshire, and probably other counties. Need a traditional butcher, though; I doubt you'd find them in Waitrose, unless they're rediscovered by them trendy southern folk and experience a brief season of fashion.

 

[stephec]

You would obviously die of salmonella poisioning if you did that now.

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On a similar theme, when we used to go to the butcher on a Saturday afternoon with my mam he would give the kids a chicken's foot.

On the way home we used to play with them, pulling the ligaments to make it clench and unclench.

My wife doesn't believe this could ever have happened, as nowadays people seem to think they'll catch salmonella if a chicken farts three miles away.

It's probably the reason I can eat with all kinds of crap on my hands an never be ill.

 

[summerdays]

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On a similar theme, when we used to go to the butcher on a Saturday afternoon with my mam he would give the kids a chicken's foot.

On the way home we used to play with them, pulling the ligaments to make it clench and unclench.

My wife doesn't believe this could ever have happened, as nowadays people seem to think they'll catch salmonella if a chicken farts three miles away.

It's probably the reason I can eat with all kinds of crap on my hands an never be ill.

Well as all my relations kept chickens (I think the most would have been 50), there was a ready supply of chicken and feet as required.

 

[jefmcg]

Thats the one. We used to call it Chitlins. It was forced upon us as kids, but I liked it with salt. Is it still sold?

Interesting. Despite my early exposure to tripe and cold tongue, my only knowledge of chitlins is from a book I read at school about a poor black family in the American south (sharecroppers, I guess). Sounder.

 

[Dave7]

Is it just me that's waiting for the punchline?

She was only a pork butcher's daughter, but ........

No...........but it's only you that was brave enough to say it