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marie I thought it was just me that did that!!
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</blockquote>Jeanette, I have eaten butter all my life. Never liked marg and never liked the 'easy spread' marg (and easy spread butter, although I have used it) that's been around last few years.<br />
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Think it was the taste of those blocks of Stork margarine, which was all you could get instead of butter, that put me off. <br />
My mother would only ever eat butter and it HAD to be Lurpak! <br />
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When the kids next door came home from school their Mam would be sitting in the armchair next to the fire, fag out the corner of the mouth, packet of stork margarine in one arm, sugar bowl on the other, loaf of sliced white Motherpride bread in her lap. <br />
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She'd make a space on the arm of the chair, perch a slice of bread on it, scrape some marg over it then sprinkle sugar on top.<br />
Fold it in two, pass it to child no. 1 then start all over again for the other 2 kids. That was their tea EVERY SINGLE NIGHT! <br />
I know, cos I was given some myself now and again (that's northern generosity all over!) if I was there.<br />
Sounds ungrateful, but it tasted horrible to me and I soon made sure I wasn't next door when tea time came! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><br />
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My Mam used to say this lady was the only woman she knew who could burn boiled potatoes. So much safer with bread, marg & sugar! <br />
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I don't follow foods fads. Like good ingredients though. It's the way you're brought up - says she, stating the bleedin' obvious, but isn't food likes/dislikes the same for all of us? <br />
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There were hardly any fridge/freezers when I was a bairn, all we had was a larder with concrete shelving and a small window with a piece of mesh in it.<br />
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Convenience foods didn't exist. When Mr Kipling brought out his cakes there were considered a proper novelty round where I lived! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><br />
Veg, fruit, meat, cheese, milk, butter were bought fresh every day and only what was in season.<br />
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Must confess I've never eaten a McDonald's beef burger. I don't really like fast food or takeaways. Fish & chips are fine, but not much else. Someone I worked with once actually died from Mad Cow Disease. He'd regularly eaten burgers every single day at lunchtime from a local takeaway <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /><br />
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So good INGREDIENTS are always important, to me anyways.</div>
