The Retirement Thread

[Mo1959]

We were lucky in the local village primary school. It was 2 local ladies that actually cooked all the meals on the premises, so they were really quite good.

 

[Dave7]

We were (genuinely) a poor family.
Truth this.......
Saturday evening tea would often be a sheeps head. The whole head sat on a plate, on the table. We ate the lot, tongue, brains, everything.
One thing they forced me to eat was braun........until I threw up over the table. They never made me eat that again.

 

[welsh dragon]

I liked the pink custard. Remember sago? We called it frog spawn.

Wasnt that tapioca?

 

[Mo1959]

Wasnt that tapioca?

This stuff. Calls it sago in the description. Maybe it’s just another name for it?

 

[Dave7]

Wasnt that tapioca?

Good question. I just did a quick 'Classic' and googled this......
Strictly speaking, sago is made with the starch from the pith of an array of tropical palm trees. Tapioca pearls, on the other hand, are made with tapiocaor the starch from cassava, a root crop. Using either starch is not always interchangeable.

 

[numbnuts]

mmm semolina with jam
Yeuky

I love semolina, but with cream I have it as least 3 times a week

 

[Dave7]

I love semolina, but with cream I have it as least 3 times a week

I just read that out loud and Mrs D retched.

 

[Mo1959]

I just read that out loud and Mrs D retched.

As I nearly did at your post about the sheep’s head.......especially as I have been stuffing myself with sweets and feel slightly sick anyway! Lol.

 

[Dave7]

As I nearly did at your post about the sheep’s head.......especially as I have been stuffing myself with sweets and feel slightly sick anyway! Lol.

But I had no choice with the sheeps head🙂

 

[welsh dragon]

I have been a good girl and have not had any sweets, cakes or biscuit. I hate all semolina, tapioca type rubbish. Mrs D has good taste. I'm with her.

 

[welsh dragon]

Mr WD ate all that kind of stuff when he was a kid. Brains, heart, tripe.

 

[Dave7]

As I nearly did at your post about the sheep’s head.......especially as I have been stuffing myself with sweets and feel slightly sick anyway! Lol.

Anyway, you are a naughty girl, stuffing yourself with sweets....... dont you call them sweeties up there?

 

[Dave7]

Mr WD ate all that kind of stuff when he was a kid. Brains, heart, tripe.

I have never ever ever ever eaten tripe.....double yeucky.
Mrs Ds aunty has it every week.

 

[Mo1959]

Mr WD ate all that kind of stuff when he was a kid. Brains, heart, tripe.

I ate this on the odd occasion. Never really knew what was in it to be honest.
https://www.scottishrecipes.co.uk/pottedhough.php

 

[PaulSB]

I would have starved, mother and father both out at work and they both ate at work, I learned how to fend for myself from a very early age. They were both too busy to even take me to school on my first day and went with the older girl from next door.

Before @classic33 gets by here. Your parents took the girl next door to school?