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I wondered about that. Had noticed the price of the cheap butter I usually get (unsalted, buy whatever offerings from the supermarkets) shoot through the roof last couple years. Used to be £1 or if you were lucky a bit cheaper, but now cheapest is £1.45.

Must try that Lidl butter, Hen, thanks for tip. It's on the shopping list.

Love nice butter and I don't eat margarine or any of the other buttery/sunflower/olive spreads. Well, I will eat them, but only if eating someone else's grub and they've used it.

Wouldn't care but I called in at Lidl last week on way home from work, but got distracted by the chocolate almond ices in the freezer section :)

marie I thought it was just me that did that!!
 
marie I thought it was just me that did that!!
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.

Think it was the taste of those blocks of Stork margarine, which was all you could get instead of butter, that put me off.
My mother would only ever eat butter and it HAD to be Lurpak!

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.

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.
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!
I know, cos I was given some myself now and again (that's northern generosity all over!) if I was there.
Sounds ungrateful, but it tasted horrible to me and I soon made sure I wasn't next door when tea time came! :)

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!

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?

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.

Convenience foods didn't exist. When Mr Kipling brought out his cakes there were considered a proper novelty round where I lived! :)
Veg, fruit, meat, cheese, milk, butter were bought fresh every day and only what was in season.

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 :(

So good INGREDIENTS are always important, to me anyways.
 
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.

Think it was the taste of those blocks of Stork margarine, which was all you could get instead of butter, that put me off.
My mother would only ever eat butter and it HAD to be Lurpak!

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.

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.
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!
I know, cos I was given some myself now and again (that's northern generosity all over!) if I was there.
Sounds ungrateful, but it tasted horrible to me and I soon made sure I wasn't next door when tea time came! :)

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!

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?

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.

Convenience foods didn't exist. When Mr Kipling brought out his cakes there were considered a proper novelty round where I lived! :)
Veg, fruit, meat, cheese, milk, butter were bought fresh every day and only what was in season.

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 :(

So good INGREDIENTS are always important, to me anyways.

you tell a good tale marie........i recall having sugar sandwiches with sticks of rhubarb freshly picked ...that was for a treat tho.......mother to make a proper cooked tea/dinner as you say with all fresh ingrediants....veg was from the garden......if wewere good thru the week...sunday treat was apple pie or jelly and custard.

p.s i dont recall seeing any fat people around then.....whats more......i dont think i ever heard of someone with cancer......TB was around at the time tho
 
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you tell a good tale marie........i recall having sugar sandwiches with sticks of rhubarb freshly picked ...that was for a treat tho.......mother to make a proper cooked tea/dinner as you say with all fresh ingrediants....veg was from the garden......if wewere good thru the week...sunday treat was apple pie or jelly and custard.

p.s i dont recall seeing any fat people around then.....whats more......i dont think i ever heard of someone with cancer......TB was around at the time tho

Banana and condensed milk sandwiches when I was a kid.

My mother didn't approve though, she was a wonderful cook.
 
Banana and condensed milk sandwiches when I was a kid.

My mother didn't approve though, she was a wonderful cook.
Oooo! Now there's food for thought :)

I used to have condensed milk sandwiches too (what was left over from a recipe, usually out of the Bero Book), but never had banana in as well. :tongue:

That's double naughty, Rob :hammer: ;)

I'd find condensed milk way too sweet now.
 
I used to have evapourated milk on me Weetabix in the morning Marie.

But only if one of the rest of the tribe had beat me to the cream off the top of the milk.
 
I used to have evapourated milk on me Weetabix in the morning Marie.

But only if one of the rest of the tribe had beat me to the cream off the top of the milk.

Carnation on a tinned fruit in our house Sunday afternoon occasionally a slab of walls ice cream instead ...profiteroles were an exotic delicacy in those days :)

Channa
 
Carnation on a tinned fruit in our house Sunday afternoon occasionally a slab of walls ice cream instead ...profiteroles were an exotic delicacy in those days :)

Channa

We used to have tinned fruit with carnation Sunday as well Andy.

But Saturday was all about cold meat. Ham carved off the bone, Haslet, cold Pork, Pork pie and whatever else mum could find at the local butchers.

She always put a bowl of salad out as well which always included a dish full of vinegar with sliced cucumber and slice onions in it.
 
I used to have evapourated milk on me Weetabix in the morning Marie.

But only if one of the rest of the tribe had beat me to the cream off the top of the milk.
Snap! Are you sure you weren't living next door to us and we just didn't know?!

The blue tits sometimes used to nick the cream off the top in the winter :)
 
I've recently started buying Heinz sandwich spread and sometimes have it with cheese on a sandwich.

I'd forgotten all about it, but a quick sarnie takes me right back to my childhood.
 
Must confess I've never eaten a McDonald's beef burger.

My only complaint about McD is it never looks like the pictures, I don't know how trading standards allow them to get away with it.

Home made burgers are 100% better !
 
My only complaint about McD is it never looks like the pictures, I don't know how trading standards allow them to get away with it.

Home made burgers are 100% better !
NOT in the UK but any corporate that takes rancid meat literally bleaches it so fit for human consumption I cant give my custom.

KFC are no better, the chap that put me through my refrigeration exams had worked in Nigeria a plant that had bought redundant UK equipment because of the gasses involved...Killing chickens using cyanide does put me off ...not the uk but still where is the corporate responsibility ? I like KFC as it happens but I shall not indulge in Africa

Channa
 
I quite like a Maccy D but dont have them very often, will partake in an odd Burger King now and then as well and a Zinger Tower goes down a treat.

I may have had one McD and one BK this year so far :)
 

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