Featured Finds Thread

Discussion in 'Antique Discussion' started by verybrad, May 25, 2014.

  1. daveydempsey

    daveydempsey Moderator Moderator

    @Christmasjoy
    Joy,
    Trotters was a once a week meal when I was a kid along with boiled cabbage mashed tater and gravy.

    Sheeps head was another in the pressure cooker.

    Some days it would be boiled Eel or baked rabbit.

    Bread and dripping was another staple and if you were still hungry you filled up on bread and jam.
    Always had plenty of milk,apples and blood oranges though.

    My mother provided everything needed for a balanced diet, protein, vitamins, calcium, carbs and fat.

    Where I lived late 50's early 60's most people were still broke after WWII.

    92% of the housing stock had been destroyed, only half my school was standing.

    People lived in temporary social prefabricated buildings.

    We were allocated a 3 bedroomed brick built house.

    My mother and her family were bombed out of 3 homes between 39-45, they lost everything they had.

    We were lucky on our estate the roads were built before the war and the homes just after in 1948.

    Near our house the road was concrete sections apart from two pieces right outside, that was made from hardcore and tarmac after receiving a direct hit from a 1000 pounder in 1944.

    That home and food served us well until the late 60's when my parents got better jobs and saved enough to buy a property outside the city.
     
  2. Christmasjoy

    Christmasjoy Well-Known Member

    Davey .. I remember most of those foods, my father LOVED jellied eels, Bread and dripping was a staple in our house too .. also rabbit. My father once brought a live rabbit home and I began to make a pet of it .. I named it fluffy .. one day he was gone from his cage and at dinnertime ( 12 noon on the dot) I asked where Fluffy was and my father said "we're eating him" !!! I can NEVER forget my horror and anguish, he could have said" I set him free" but that was the cruelty of my father. I actually hated his guts. ... Joy. :(
     
  3. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    Now that's a nasty thing to do to a kid. It might have been enough to turn me into a vegetarian.
     
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  4. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    @daveydempsey . I think this is what some are learning again. I grew up knowing how not to waste food. Ma didn't force me to eat things I hated, but she and my other female relatives were brilliant at using stuff up. So am I.

    I still love offal when I can get it, but of course, much is now wildly expensive. Calves liver, for example, which is to die for. And lamb kidneys, which I adore. They're also very good for you.

    Eating only supposedly prime cuts leads to appalling farming practices and horrible offensive amounts of waste. Plus, non prime cuts, cooked properly, have way more taste. Flank and skirt of beef, belly pork and breast of lamb are delicious. So is neck of lamb.
     
  5. bluumz

    bluumz Quite Busy

    Both my parents grew up in Europe (dad in Poland, mom in England) during WW2. They were used to eating some odd items and, it seems, even developed a taste for them. Now, most of us here are lucky enough to be living in a land/time of plenty.
     
  6. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    My parents were both Depression babies and WWII kids. Mom never served the "off cuts", probably because Dad couldn't stand them. Now they're usually crazy expensive. Flank steak, brisket, etc are ridiculous now. You can't get the hearts for love or money. Brains either (animal or functioning human ... but that's another gray matter)
     
  7. daveydempsey

    daveydempsey Moderator Moderator

    Oh yeah Belly Pork too, I remember the hairs on the skin.:hilarious::hilarious:
    I must admit I don't eat trotters, belly pork or Eel now but eat the equivalent meat from the same animals, pork chops, haddock and many of the smaller fish.
    Chicken and lambs liver and lots of eggs.
    Lots of fruit and veg too.

    I would revert back to old diet in a heartbeat rather than eat some of the shite people put down their necks nowadays, Macs, KFC and hotdogs to name a few.
     
  8. Christmasjoy

    Christmasjoy Well-Known Member

    Davey .. Do they still have Savaloy sausage there !! .. I DID like those ... Joy. :):):)
     
  9. Christmasjoy

    Christmasjoy Well-Known Member

    Plus Hovis bread and treacle ... :)
     
  10. daveydempsey

    daveydempsey Moderator Moderator

    I believe so, its not something I seek out :hilarious:
     
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  11. daveydempsey

    daveydempsey Moderator Moderator

    Hovis yes.
    I don't see treacle anymore, even in house clearances, you may as well pour a bag of sugar down your neck its the same stuff :hilarious:
     
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  12. Christmasjoy

    Christmasjoy Well-Known Member

    Yorkshire Pudding, Bangers and Mash, Cornish Pasties ....
     
  13. Christmasjoy

    Christmasjoy Well-Known Member

    Crackling from the Ham ....
     
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  14. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    is this still the finds thread..?....................................................:playful::playful::playful::sorry::sorry::sorry:
     
  15. bercrystal

    bercrystal Well-Known Member

    I guess no one is finding anything good so we have to talk about something. However I am still trying to un-see the one post from last night. ;) :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek: :D:D
     
  16. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    I finally found some stuff on Thursday, but have to upload the photo. It's still in my camera.
     
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  17. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    Belly pork is the best roast for crackling. Breast of lamb, like flank, skirt and brisket has the best flavour. I eat lamb ribs when I go to our local Afghan restaurant. A great pile of them, charcoal grilled, sweet and joyous. I find fillet steak quite tasteless: no fat and too often dry. Give me a ribeye. Which used to be cheap, till people discovered it.

    I'm with you Davey, real food please. Local pub, which is closed for all except delivery, brought my roast lamb dinner last night. I swear there was a pound of meat. Slow roasted leg, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, proper mash, roasties, a tub of gravy and a pot of mint sauce. Yum.
     
  18. kyratango

    kyratango Bug jewellery addiction!

    Yumm, pig trotters (they are boiled cooked first) breaded and roasted, crisp and tender...:p:p:p Want some now!
     
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  19. Marie Forjan

    Marie Forjan Well-Known Member

    OK, finally got off my duff and took a few photos!

    First a 900 silver garnet ring made in Cold War era Czechoslovakia:
    900SlvrGarnetRing.jpg

    2 garnet bar pins, the rectangle is Victorian, I think the other is a bit newer based on the hinge and clasp:
    GarnetBarPins.jpg

    And a sweet garnet necklace :)
    GarnetNecklace.jpg
     
  20. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

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