Food and other musings
Posted by Fred on February 11, 2024, 10:16 pm
Does anyone remember " Bread and Dripping"? In the 1950's any self respecting butcher's shop would have a couple of ovens in the back to roast their customer's cuts of meat whilst they had gone to work. They would pick up their cooked joints after work, but the butchers also sold the drippings that had hardened at the bottom of the oven. We would buy a pound for a bob and that would last us for a week.I was given a small bottle of milk at school and a free meal at mid-day courtesy of the Wakefield Education Authorities. This was heaven compared to what had gone before. Now learning English was a different kettle of fish. What they taught me at school and what was spoken on the streets of Wakefield were to my ears two different languages, but one did muddle through. Just bits and bobs of past memories as I cycle through to my last quarter of a century of my life.A nod to one and all because there does not seem to be many left, or perhaps, there is nothing of import apart from old men musing of meals long past. Ta Ra, Fred (ex Greenie and proud of it)
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