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Breakfast, Cornflakes or puffed wheat; dinner, egg and chips, fish and chips, meat and potato pie and chips; tea, beans or Heinz spaghetti or egg on toast; supper, cheese on toast or (once a week) fish, scone and chips from Podmore’s off West Lane. I didn’t get fat without effort.
Puffed wheat for breakfast midweek. Fried tomato and bacon at weekends.
School meals for dinner midweek. Roast beef and yorkshire pudding plus gravy, mash and peas, followed by rice pudding on Sunday.
Haddock and chips for tea. Sometimes liver and mash, sometimes finnan haddock and mash (yellow fish cooked in milk). Dad sometimes had tripe - not me!
Tea and ginger biscuits for supper.
Jam and bread anytime in between. Or a plate of beans.
Scone and chips at Podmores. They must have gone on for a few years as they were flat out during the war .I never ever sampled Scones. What was the main ingredient of a scone .Never ever seen or heard of them since .
Take a large potato. Cut two thin slices. Take a similar sized slice of fish and make them into a fish sandwich. Dip in batter and fry. Mmmm.
In other parts of the country they are known as fish cakes (but then what do they call fish cakes?)
Take a large potato. Cut two thin slices. Take a similar sized slice of fish and make them into a fish sandwich. Dip in batter and fry. Mmmm.
In other parts of the country they are known as fish cakes (but then what do they call fish cakes?)
At my local chip shop, the first order could be a glass of pop. Threepence.
Upon giving my order, two questions: do you want bits on and do you want them wrapping up.
My preferred order was fish, scone and chips with scraps. Podmore’s was still going in 1987 but closed not long after that when the couple that ran it retired. Did anyone else judge their height in relation to how high they came up to the chip shop counter?
Though it wasn't a favourite of mine, something that many people used to eat was haslet.
I only recently discovered what it was - a Lincolnshire version of meatloaf apparently.
I went to my grandma's house down Calton Street Lund Park Area in Keighley
every Thursday it was always Polony and Chips. She sent me to Cunnigham's Fish shop on
Victoria Road for a few penneth o' curly chips. It were reight grand.
I had a mate who would go into the greengrocer's and ask for damaged fruit: they had a box near the floor containing rejects.
We also had a lad in the village who would beg the core when he saw a kid eating an apple. I never knew if his dad worked or not.
Gilbert Swift also told us that we should wear clean socks each day; if we couldn't manage that, we should wear a pair alternate days. Unbelievable today?