Food I/we used to (happily) eat.

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Maverick Goose

A jumped up pantry boy, who never knew his place
'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.
That's quite likely in my town [Bridport]:hungry:!
 

speccy1

Guest
I went to a small boarding school, aged eight. The school cook must have been on a very tight budget. There were a whole lot of foods that I solemnly swore I would never suffer again once I had served my sentence...

Sago
Semolina
Tapioca
Cold stewed fruit
Pig's liver, with most of the internal plumbing intact
Heart
Sweetbreads
Stork margarine
Camp coffee

Leaving food on your plate was punishable by death.

It was quite a happy little place otherwise.

Edit: I forgot to mention the sour milk, no kidding!
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mybike

Grumblin at Garmin on the Granny Gear
I went to a small boarding school, aged eight. The school cook must have been on a very tight budget. There were a whole lot of foods that I solemnly swore I would never suffer again once I had served my sentence...

Sago
Semolina
Tapioca
Cold stewed fruit
Pig's liver, with most of the internal plumbing intact
Heart
Sweetbreads
Stork margarine
Camp coffee

Leaving food on your plate was punishable by death.

It was quite a happy little place otherwise.

Edit: I forgot to mention the sour milk, no kidding!

I was a little older but I remember similar, frog spawn as we called sago and dead man's veins as we called macaroni. Yes, and liver as you describe it.
 

Spoked Wheels

Legendary Member
Location
Bournemouth
This is not for the faint hearted :smile:
As I am of a mature age (68) there were foods we regularly ate which I wouldn't 'choose' to eat now (and before someone says it......I'm sure that would change it I was starving).
Bear in mind, I was brought (dragged) up near the Wallasey/Birkenhead docks after the war years and money was short.
  • Saturday night would often be a sheep's head- as in........literally, the head of a sheep sat in the middle of the table. We would eat the meat & the brain......the tongue was a delicacy.
  • Brawn.......that disgusting mix of fat, gristle and if you were lucky a bit of meat
  • Rabbit.......I still remember the taste.........very nice. But I cant imagine eating it now.
  • Bread and dripping. For Saturday lunch this was a norm'.
  • Bullocks heart.............I understand this is now an expensive delicacy but back then it was a very cheap thing that only poor people ate.
  • Sterilized milk..........I recall enjoying that but came to hate it later. It had a lid you had to prize of...it was just so sickly.
  • Coni-oni butties...............that was bread with condensed milk on. Again, I never enjoyed them but.......needs must and all that.

I'd love to eat rabbit now, one of the leanest meat you can get. We have tried to cook it a couple of times but we can't get it right :sad: Rabbit cooked by somebody that knows how to do it, makes a delicious dish.

I have eaten some strange things.... goat testicles, sheep and pig's head just to name a couple
 

Salar

A fish out of water
Location
Gorllewin Cymru
Another raw sausage eater, Mother used to give it to me as a treat, surprised I survived without food poisoning, she also used to water the milk down for our cornflakes.
 

Leaway2

Lycrist
We had tripe and onions at least once a week for dinner (that's at 12:00 for the southerners). We used to eat heart, liver
We had cow heel stew, Ox tail and scrag end, whatever that is.
Pigs trotters and pigs feet.
 

Fnaar

Smutmaster General
Location
Thumberland
and scrag end, whatever that is.
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Bazzer

Setting the controls for the heart of the sun.
Either I or my mum used to go to the butchers and pick up a bag of bones. From the size of them they were the upper leg bones of cows. The dogs (we had up to four Old English sheepdogs), got.one each. The rest went into a pan for making soup which lasted us for about three days..
 
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