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  • [Deleted User]
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    fuddle wrote: »
    What was in war time sausages? :eek:

    You probably won't want to know. :D
  • monnagran
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    And you certainly wouldn't want to eat them.
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  • Nargleblast
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    I suppose if you're desperate you will eat anything. Did anyone see the TV series out last year where volunteers were put into slum surroundings to experience life in the slums in different decades in Victorian Britain? In one episode they cooked up pigs' feet, and teenagers amongst them were picking at the cooked meat and saying how nice it was to eat hot meat after an endless diet of bread and marge. In real life they wouldn't be seen dead eating it.
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  • mardatha
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    Yes I watched that, and I agree with you. In wartime everybody was too hungry to be picky.
  • greenbee
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    mardatha wrote: »
    Yes I watched that, and I agree with you. In wartime everybody was too hungry to be picky.

    Not according to my mother, who refused (and still refuses) to eat tripe.
  • GreyQueen
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    :( My mother was a wartume child in those East End slums and she can remember living in two rooms with her Mum and her Grannie. Cooking facilities? Nope. Once she was taken into care, the malnutirion sores on her legs still took 18 months to heal.

    In the 1950s, with her country foster parents, she ate an awful lot of suet. Suet was used to bulk out both savoury and sweet dishes. The extra calories were important to people doing heavy physical work (and housework without any mod cons was pretty physcial, too). My foster-grands were whippet-thin.

    :p Mum hates suet so much she vowed she'd never inflict it on us.
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    There is an article on the news feed from USA TODAY this morning that has really set my teeth on edge it states that the English are so fascinated by Donald Trump that they are gambling heavily on what seem to be all aspects of his presidency and that the betting companies have books on all sorts of things concerning him!!! Fascinated? that is hardly the word I'd use over someone who this morning is threatening to 'tackle head on' the North Korea regime and who is riding roughshod over his own people and trying to strong arm and bully the rest of the world and it's leaders into jumping to the tune of his calling and obeying his will. Goodness me, no fascinated isn't the emotion I feel and I'm pretty sure it's not what most of us feel is it?
  • GreyQueen
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    :) All countries are egocentric.

    What US media outlet is going to say to its US readership, You know what? Those Brits think you're mostly mad as a box of frogs and that Trump is an a*****e?

    Of course, fascination isn't necessarily a good thing - think about how fascinating many drivers find a road traffic accident, so much so that they actually or nearly have one themselves, caused by rubber-necking.
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  • mardatha
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    And how bloody rude to say that on the eve of a meeting with the Chinese prime minister too. If the Chinese pull their money out of America that will hurt. He's turning America into a laughing stock, bet Putin and his cabinet are rolling around like those wee aliens in the Smash adverts when they watch the news :D:D
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    Fascination.....as in that of a rabbit caught in the headlights???
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