The Good Old Days !

[flump1]

I remember my parents boiling eggs for our tea in the kettle ! Bread toasted on a fork thrust into the rayburn, and as we were farmers we drank milk straight from the cow. Wonderful times. Do you remember things like this that are food related we might not be so happy with now ?

[tonyav]

I think that toast or pikelets tasted better when done on an open fire, flump.

[Mamyalynne]

Toasting crumpets on the open fire - drinking cups of hot beef tea made from shin of beef before getting into toasty warm pjs that had been in the side cupboard of the range.

[bookbinder]

Our milkman was also a farmer, and he used to bring the milk in the churn in the back of his car. My mother went out into the street with her enamel jug and he filled it from the churn with a big ladle. We never caught any bugs from the milk.

[hc4361]

Baked potatoes done on the bonfire on Guy Fawke's night all black and crunchy and yummy; dripping on toast cooked over the open fire; chitterling sandwiches with lots of mustard

[tonyav]

Chitterling sandwiches, hc4361, are you from the Black country area ?.

[hc4361]

I yam yam

:D

[tonyav]

LOL, thought so, hc4361.

[zylaphone]

Remember all of that with fond memories excepts chitterling sandwiches hc4361?!!

[trt]

Sugar or condensed milk butties.

[Tilly2]

Eating a stick of rhubarb with a cone of sugar to dip into.

[stuey]

Taking apple sandwiches to school for lunch!.

[tonyav]

Didn't stay dinners then, stuey ?.

[Tilly2]

I bet he did!

[Tilly2]

OOps. sorry. I thought you said 'say'.

School lunch? Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?

[stuey]

I think that you had to pay for the dinners, and I guess we couldn't afford to. In fact, if I recall correctly, we couldn't afford the apple for my apple sandwiches!

[stuey]

And some days I had to go with out the bread for the appleless sandwiches!

[Samuraisan]

And you call it the Good Old Days ?

[tonyav]

Wot no apples, stuey. No good at scrumping then ?. ;-)

[stuey]

You know what, Samuraisan, I really can look back on those days with fondness. I know I'm a lot better of now in the soon to be new "Good Old Days'. Any, I'm off across the field...Tata:)

[paddywak]

I remember getting my ear thickened by the local police sergeant when he caught me coming out of one of the local orchards with a load of apples stuffed up my jumper. He did let me keep the apples though.