General Chat

Good Morning Joy, sorry to hear you are mourning the demise of sago.
You have now given me a new goal in my life to achieve the finding of sago, both tinned and dried.
To be honest, I did not know you could not get it anymore, as I am sure I bought a tin of Ambrosia Sago Pudding only last year in M*******sons, following a thread that someone put up about tinned milk puddings. Looked in the cupboards and can only find Ambrosia Tinned Tapioca, but I am certain I had bought a tin of sago, as I like it.
I will now make this my life's misson
Julia in Derbyshire

Julia you may get it in an Indian supermarket ask or look for "Saboodana"or try in a health shop.

blue bird bars of toffee
hot lemon crunch
mint piramids
walls feet lollys lol x

Thanks Kay for that info. Never though of Indian or health food shops.
Oooh, Good Morning by the way. LOL
Julia in Derbyshire

well worth a visit motowngal,it ischocolate heaven there along with another chocky outlet in the same area:)

There was a chocolate bar which had a minty honeycomb crunchy filling I think they were called "anytime bars"
You could get them in the late 60s and 70s.

I used to love them long twists of sweets ,toffee flavour and with a choc centre you could also the the barley sugar one.

and them everlasting strips that were flat and stretched for miles when soft.

We can still get Ambrosia Creamed Rice......? does ot mean its going!!!

Frank,
I used to love Cadbury's Milk Tray bar too.

MTG, BHS usually have the trays of different flavoured toffee in the Xmas shop. it goes into stores the weekend of the 16th/17th October. Not sure of the make though.

Kay there was a thread last year and I brought up the subject of the long twists filled with chocolate, i searched the net but couldn'tfind them anywhere.

I love eating cold rice pudding out of the tin too, especially if it's been chilled in the fridge.

Just watching the Young Ones on BBC1 and they have lots of items of food from the 70's.

Toffee glees, Top Ten (ice lolly), Heart (ice lolly), Jackie magazine, Woolworths, sixpence pieces, my dad...

lmaooo MTG that sago jke was bad bad bad hahaha, very funny tho,

i liked sago to warm and cold,

aw school trecle roly poly cake was gawjussss, even with lumpy custard haha x

I just lurved my scholl dinners.LOLOL
Julia in Derbyshire

I remember the gobstoppers Motowngirl.

Yes I agree with you about the fat and carnohydrades, in fact I was going to post that I miss the fat on meat these days. I do not mean 'fatty' meat, but such thing as fat around a pork chop, and marbling through steak. Don't people these days do not realise you need this to keep the meat moist whilst cooking. Animals are being breed to be lean, and this, to me, spoils the taste.
I could go on, but have to wash me 'air, to see consultant this afternoon.
Julia in Derbyshire

we used to love school cornflake cake

School dinners gave me my utter disgust for liver,,,yuk and of beef with big hard lumps of fat,yuk yuk,,,,

Stotty bread, my late mother wasn't much of a cook,bless her, but she made the most wonderful stotty bread every sunday and stood it up on end(it was flat and shaped as a disc)on the windowsill to cool.
That was the day she did her baking,apple, rhubarb, bacon and egg pies and scones, I used to eat the apple skins as she peeled them.

She made quite a number of them,stotties that is, but it all went very quickly.
We also had tinned fruit with custard and jelly with a half slice of bread and butter, or marg. when the rations ran out.

P.S. Have any of you Geordies out there got the recipe for this bread, I'd be most grateful.

Sylvia C.

Hi Sylvia, just had a quick google and there are loads of recipies for Stotty Bread. I am going to look at them myself later.
Julia in Derbyshire

carbolic soap i loved the smell of that

We have a new 'Old Fashioned' sweat shop in out town. Whenever I go up on that street to have me hair cut, about every 5/6 weeks, I have to call in and buy a few 1/4's for the OH.
Takes him back to his childhood.
Julia in Derbyshire

As my washing blew of the line for the umpteenth time in yesterdays gale force wind,I was reminded of the pegs that Gypsy ladies used to sell at the door.

When you pegged your washing on the line with them,it stayed put.

Any Romany ladies out there,why don't you make them any more?