Childhood & Sentimental memories

THIRZAH

Waitrose do seem to be expanding into the north.There are a couple in the soth Manchester area and one in Buxton so perhaps Liverpool is next.

cathodetube

Olliebeak wrote: »

Thanks cathodetube - my local supermarket is an ASDA and they do have a bakery where they will slice any of their in-store bread for you. But the bread is usually quite crusty - the thin sliced stuff that I'm yearning for is soft-baked like Warburtons or other brand bread.

I do love the bread from the ASDA bakery but I prefer to cut it myself using my own break-knife. Have to keep Mr.Ollie away from a break knife though - he wrecks the loaf EVERY time and then it's only fit for serving with soup!

Hi Olliebeak - I went to an ASDA today and saw that they have crustless! white bread and it seemed quite thin so maybe that is an option for you too.
Have you seen that yet? I think it is for children.

Olliebeak

Thanks for that cathodetube and Thirzah.

I'll check out that crustless bread and await the arrival of Waitrose in the north - let's see if they can shake up the supermarket business around here.

Irisheyes648

What a great thread

My mum used to make Irish stew every Wednesday and I hated it

Being forced to eat liver and onions that tasted like old boot leather:rotfl:

We used to get a sweet van come round every Sunday morning and me and my sister would get mojo's for 1/2 pence each

Tinned fruit and tip top

Mum opening the oven door on cold winter mornings to keep the kitchen warm whilst we ate our breakfast

Taking the pop bottles back to the shop to get some money for sweets

Having smelly sardine sandwiches for my packed lunch at school

Me and my sister taking the laundry up to the laundarette for mum during the school holidays because she worked, we used to put the washing basket on top of an old pushchair and wheel it up...............what a laugh you would really get some strange looks now if you did that:rotfl:

Having to put 10p in the electric meter when it ran out!!! if we didn't have a 10p piece it was an early night all round....................I could go on all night!!

recovering_spendaholic

Hi Olliebeak - there is a Waitrose in Formby and one in Southport and Ocado (Waitrose home delivery) will deliver to most areas of Liverpool - mind you its a bit of an expensive shop IMO, although they do indeed do thin sliced bread! Sometimes I get a piece of thick sliced bread and slide the knife through it to make two thin slices - its not the same as the old thin sliced stuff though.

My Dad always used to have bread and dripping but I would never even taste it, and he also used to have tripe with vinegar and onions and that used to make me shudder too! He did used to make stuffed lambs hearts though and I loved them - He would kind of braise them in the oven but only in a tin about half full of water so the tops would get crispy and then he would make gravy with the braising water. We also had a bakers called Reeces in Crosby Village and they had these big tins of biscuits and you bought them by the pound - all different kinds or you could buy a pound of mixed. They also had a tin of broken biscuits which were much cheaper and my Mum always got them. She used to send me to the shops with a list and tell me to get a pound of broken biscuits but I had to wait until there was no other customers in the shop before I got them in case anyone she knew was in there! If there were customers I had to get half a pound of ordinary biscuits!

Does anyone remember the game you used to play where you put a tennis ball in a stocking and the stood against the wall and whacked it either side of you, lifting your legs and arms to hit the wall at different angles? We played it for hours! We also always had an american skipping rope - loads of elastic bands joined together to make a huge circle which you looped round two peoples ankes to make a rectangle and then you jumped in and out of it.

Olliebeak

If they are expensive, no wonder the only Waitrose shops in our area are in Formby and Southport - footballers' wives country those places are lol!!!

I can remember buying broken biscuits from Lennon's supermarkets in St.Helens when I was a child. Of course we always took the most whole biscuits that we could find in the bag - after a couple of days there were barely crumbs left!

My grandmother often served tripe which I hated and would just have bread and margarine instead! One of my grandad's favourites though, were pig's trotters with vinegar and pepper on them.

Liver and onions was on the menu every week - and I loved it. Still do cos we had that last night (lamb's liver and very tender).

noonesperfect

pounds_and_pensive wrote: »

I remember the Camay ad. Every time it came on my mum would say 'I'd had all three of you by the time I was 22!'. I also remember the Harmony hairspray ad, with the woman strolling along by the building site, hairdo bouncing up and down like Zebedee on a pogo stick, and the builders asking each other 'Is she... or isn't she?' (!) The Christmas ads are the ones that stick in my mind most though - ze Cointreau couple, daft gadgets from K-Tel and Victor Kyam being 'so impressed, he bought the company'.

I also used to love the old Public Information films - Petunia and her husband ('He's not waving, he's drowning!'), Reginald Molehusband trying to park his car, and - my favourite - the woman peering through her letterbox after being locked out by a burglar ('What IS he doing with those candlesticks?!'). They don't make 'em like that any more

Oh God you and I ARE exactly the same age!!

noonesperfect

The nearest thing these days to thin sliced bread is milk roll (made by warburtons I think)

passion8

rosieben wrote: »

Horace Batchelor, thats the man!!! :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

As I got older I thought the Horace Batchelor Method was a form of family planning :rotfl:

I was watching an old film last week and it reminded me of how we'd learn words at school.

Remember - "Mister D, Mister I, Mister FFI, Mister C, Mister U, Mister LTY?

rofl. It worked too .....!

rosieben

passion8 wrote: »

As I got older I thought the Horace Batchelor Method was a form of family planning :rotfl:

I was watching an old film last week and it reminded me of how we'd learn words at school.

Remember - "Mister D, Mister I, Mister FFI, Mister C, Mister U, Mister LTY?

rofl. It worked too .....!

Horace Batchelor's family planning :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

we did Mrs D, Mrs I, Mrs FFI, etc, but those little rhymes made life a lot easier! there was a music one about Frederic Charles???

I remember spending hours at school learning my times tables and having weekly maths and spelling tests, and my first encounters with poetry, anyone else remember?

'into the street the piper stepped smiling first a little smile as if he knew what magic slept in his quiet pipe the while......' or

'under the spreading chestnut tree the village smithy stands, a tall and mighty man is he with arms like i-ron bands' and

'Old Meg she was a gpysy, she lived upon the moor, her bed it was the brown heath turf, her house was out of doors'

and not forgetting 'Mrs Reece Laughs' sorry cant quote from that one, maybe someone else can?

amazing that I can quote a poem I learned 50 years ago but cant remember where I put my house keys this afternoon!! :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: