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5 hours ago, faraday said:

Unless some local ruffian had been successful with his catapult!

 

"No Officer, that catapult belongs to my mate" ????

Catapult  huh I had  BSA Scorpion Air  Pistol ( with silencer) most powerful handgun in the world......well thats what it seemed  like, had to hide it from my parents  though, later  used in Strangely  enough, The  Man with the Golden Gun filmed of course in Thailand!!  Must be  getting old it was  Octopussy.

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Just now, Rampant Rabbit said:

Well  I used to run the school  tuck  shop in 1972 and they were new to the Midlands then, now  get to the back of  the queue you  oink  ????

North Yorkshire.....obviously well ahead of the unloved, backward Midlands

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Just now, Surelynot said:

North Yorkshire.....obviously well ahead of the unloved, backward Midlands

 

2 minutes ago, Rampant Rabbit said:

Well  I used to run the school  tuck  shop in 1972 and they were new to the Midlands then, now  get to the back of  the queue you  oink  ????

 

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10 hours ago, Airalee said:

The first commercial mayonnaise brand was started by a Philadelphia delicatessen owner named Schlorer. Taking his wife’s mayonnaise recipe, Schlorer added preservatives and made up large batches in the back room of his store, for sale to the public. He called it Mrs. Schlorer’s, trademarking the name in 1911. Schlorer’s was not only the first commercially prepared and sold mayonnaise, but also the first to be packed into glass jars.

 

https://culinarylore.com/food-history:what-was-the-first-commercial-mayonnaise/

 

“Shish kebab is an English rendering of Turkish: şiş (sword or skewer) and kebap (roasted meat dish), that dates from around the beginning of the 20th century.[6][7] According to the Oxford English Dictionary, its earliest known publication in English is in the 1914 novel Our Mr. Wrenn by Sinclair Lewis.[6][8]

The word kebab alone was already present in English by the late 17th century“

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shish_kebab

 

“The word pizza was first documented in A.D. 997 in Gaeta[3] and successively in different parts of Central and Southern Italy.”

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_pizza

 

“The Industrial Revolution saw an increase in the availability of take-out food. By the early 20th Century, fish and chips was considered an "established institution" in Britain.”

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take-out

 

“Modern fettuccine Alfredo was invented by Alfredo di Lelio in Rome. According to family accounts, in 1892 Alfredo di Lelio began to work in a restaurant that was located in piazza Rosa and run by his mother Angelina.”

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fettuccine_Alfredo

 

“Pineapple plants were distributed from the Netherlands to English gardeners in 1719 and French ones in 1730.”

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pineapple


“The origins of BLT are hard to pin down, but some claim it was developed from bacon sandwiches that were originally prepared for teatime in the English countryside since Victorian times. BLT sandwich first appeared in British cookbooks in the late 1920s”

 

https://www.tasteatlas.com/blt-sandwich

 

 

What was it like to grow up so deprived?

 

 

 

 

 

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But we never knew or felt that we were deprived as most kids had a Dad who went to work and a Mum who stayed at home.

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21 minutes ago, billd766 said:

But we never knew or felt that we were deprived as most kids had a Dad who went to work and a Mum who stayed at home.

My post was meant to be a lighthearted joke...nothing more.  ????

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I remember only crisps were Smiths plain with the little blue bag, then hey new flavour.... Cheese and onion, wow !!

Only tv was BBC, watch with mother... Bill/ Ben and the flower pot men, then the interlude.

Gawd, i am bloody old.????

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1 minute ago, colinneil said:

I remember only crisps were Smiths plain with the little blue bag, then hey new flavour.... Cheese and onion, wow !!

Only tv was BBC, watch with mother... Bill/ Ben and the flower pot men, then the interlude.

Gawd, i am bloody old.????

Don't forget Andy Pandy - gripping stuff!!

 

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