Tate and Lyle, a small quiz
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OP
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Arch
Married to Night Train
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- Salford, UK
Yeah, I realise that I would routinely refer to treacle pudding, which I know full well is made with syrup, but I'd never call syrup, treacle.
threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
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Is that right though, slavery was abolished 50 years before Tate and Lyle started - or by slavery do you mean piss-poor wages and conditions?
scots_lass
Senior Member
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When I lived in Hull they would call syrup pudding treacle pudding. Used to annoy me no end! I thought that was an English thing but maybe just Yorkshire.
OP
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Arch
Married to Night Train
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- Salford, UK
Not just Yorkshire, I grew up mostly in the Midlands.
Treacle tart too - that's made with syrup.
Over The Hill
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Syrup Crisis!
Since this thread started I have had a desire to eat some Syrup on Toast (Hot white toast to be exact).
Lunch time today (at home) popped the toast in. Went to the cupboard for the Syrup....
We have two tins of Treacle in there and no syrup!!!
I had to make do with Honey but it was not the same.
Since this thread started I have had a desire to eat some Syrup on Toast (Hot white toast to be exact).
Lunch time today (at home) popped the toast in. Went to the cupboard for the Syrup....
We have two tins of Treacle in there and no syrup!!!
I had to make do with Honey but it was not the same.
threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
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- ...on the slake
I hope missing butter from this recipe was just an oversight?
Over The Hill
Guru
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Actually no! I have been off the stuff for about 10 years now. I hoped you would not notice that.
Strange as the childhood memory is of butter soaked toast and syrup but I know now I would not like the butter part.
Yes I know it is a bit strange - Marmalade goes directly on the toast too!
sugar slavery persisted well after the 1807 Act, both in British colonies (British Guiana only abolished slavery in 1838), the southern states in the US (1865) and Brazil (1888). Indentured labour (which is the next worst thing) continued in British Guiana until after the Great War.
Tate and Lyle do deny profiting from slavery, but Tate's business was founded on John Wright and Son who certainly did trade slave sugar.
brokenbetty
Über Member
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- London
Calling syrup treacle is a northern - or rather a not-southern - thing I think. We always called it treacle in Newcastle.
Fresh industrial white bread, spread thick with butter and treacle, folded in half then bite right in the middle
Fresh industrial white bread, spread thick with butter and treacle, folded in half then bite right in the middle
