What to have with a buttery...this and new food experiences

[Magnus McGinty]

I’ve enjoyed the side track about Leek on the Foreign Food thread. I’m feeling nostalgic for a visit. Mrs LR’s Mum and Step Dad are both gone now, and her Dad long ago and his Widow now too. So there’s fewer and fewer reasons to visit.

Same here. I would have missed all that if it was on the mega thread as I don’t read or post on it.

 

[Sue]

I was eyeing-up the Steak and Buckfast pies here too, but have saved those for my next order.

Dear Lord, that really is a step too far.

 

[redcogs]

I love Portsoy...it reminds me of an unspoilt Cornwall albeit a bit colder. How about yourself? Are you up that way?

Aye, just along the coast. We are likely neighbours! i know what you mean about Cornwall ( i lived there as a young teenager). imagine two Urbaners in this wild neck of the woods sparkling. All those soft southern Urban types will be jealous about us having a chapter on the rugged Moray Firth!

 

[geminisnake]

There's already a new foods you've tried thread. It's 113 pages long too

What new foods have you tried recently?

I love anchovies. Good ones are rare here, but earlier this week we were in Eyemouth where we got some smoked ones. They are absolutely amazing! Lovely balance of smoke, oil, and saltiness. It's almost an hour's drive to get there but we will be going back to buy more. I don't eat them "as...

www.urban75.net

But it's not about butteries is it? Sparkling was being specific and that is very much allowed

 

[Spymaster]

This just arrived by post in a jiffy bag.

I heard a heavy clunk in the hallway and the drop from the letterbox to the floor has actually caused it to dent a floorboard.

The difference between this and fudge is immediately apparent just by the feel through the wrapping. It's rock hard. I'll try it later.

 

[sparkling]

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This just arrived by post in a jiffy bag.

I heard a heavy clunk in the hallway and the drop from the letterbox to the floor has actually caused it to dent a floorboard.

The difference between this and fudge is immediately apparent just by the feel through the wrapping. It's rock hard. I'll try it later.

dent the floorboard!!

 

[sparkling]

Another question I have is why are sandwiches called a 'piece'? As in my daughter in law will ask the grandchildren if they want a piece?

 

[redcogs]

Another question I have is why are sandwiches called a 'piece'? As in my daughter in law will ask the grandchildren if they want a piece?

Aye - i'm awae ta the shopee tey get ma messages and some wee pieces . some big cultural shifts required to adapt to the local dialect. And once the doric begins, especially if its rapid fire doric, i fam completely lost - may as well stay in some remote area of China! i get by with as many nods as are necessary sparkling

 

[surreybrowncap]

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This just arrived by post in a jiffy bag.

I heard a heavy clunk in the hallway and the drop from the letterbox to the floor has actually caused it to dent a floorboard.

The difference between this and fudge is immediately apparent just by the feel through the wrapping. It's rock hard. I'll try it later.

Think of your teeth man!!!!

 

[danny la rouge]

Another question I have is why are sandwiches called a 'piece'? As in my daughter in law will ask the grandchildren if they want a piece?

And not just sandwiches. When I was a kid you would have a “play piece” for morning break, which might be an apple or a packet of crisps.

“What have you got for your play piece today?”
“A Blue Ribband. You?”
“Banana”.

 

[danny la rouge]

Another question I have is why are sandwiches called a 'piece'? As in my daughter in law will ask the grandchildren if they want a piece?

This may help:

I'm a skyscraper wean, I live on the nineteenth flair,

But I'm no gaun oot to play any mair,

Since we moved tae Castlemilk, I'm wasting away,

'Cause I'm getting one less meal every day.



O ye cannae fling pieces oot a twenty-story flat,

Seven-hundred hungry weans will testify tae that,

If it's butter, cheese or jeely, if the breid is plain or pan,

The odds against it reaching earth are ninety-nine tae wan.



On the first day my maw flung me out a dod o' Hovis broon.

It came skyting oot the windae and went up insteid o' doon,

But every twenty-seven hours it comes back into sight,

'Cause my piece went into orbit and became a satellite.



One the next day my maw flung me oot a piece once again.

It went and hit the pilot in a fast, low-flying plane.

He scraped it aff his goggles, shouting through the intercom:

`The Clydeside Reds have got me wi' a breid-and-jeely bomb!'

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Blue Ribband

Do they still make those? I used to like them as a kid.

 

[danny la rouge]

Do they still make those? I used to like them as a kid.

We’ll never know.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

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This just arrived by post in a jiffy bag.

I heard a heavy clunk in the hallway and the drop from the letterbox to the floor has actually caused it to dent a floorboard.

The difference between this and fudge is immediately apparent just by the feel through the wrapping. It's rock hard. I'll try it later.

You might need this later

Find a dentist - NHS

Find a dentist near you on the NHS website. Check your local dentist's opening times, services, facilities, reviews and ratings.

www.nhs.uk

 

[iona]

And not just sandwiches. When I was a kid you would have a “play piece” for morning break, which might be an apple or a packet of crisps.

“What have you got for your play piece today?”
“A Blue Ribband. You?”
“Banana”.

Do you also know cheese & jam sandwiches as a miner's piece or is that a more localised thing? (All the people I remember hearing it from when I lived up that way were from Midlothian)

 

[farmerbarleymow]

We’ll never know.

They do it seems. I haven't seen them in the shops for years though, so may be not that widely stocked.

 

[danny la rouge]

Do you also cheese & jam sandwiches as a miner's piece or is that a more localised thing? (All the people I heard it from when I lived up that way were from Midlothian)

Only in Penicuik.

 

[danny la rouge]

They do it seems. I haven't seen them in the shops for years though, so may be not that widely stocked.

Fuck Google. What was wrong with just not knowing? Like in the olden days?

 

[Sue]

Another question I have is why are sandwiches called a 'piece'? As in my daughter in law will ask the grandchildren if they want a piece?

Also you might say 'a jam piece' or 'a piece and jam'.

 

[iona]

Only in Penicuik.

I heard it from Bonnyrigg & Dalkeith folk! Wonder how far its use goes.

 

[Sue]

And not just sandwiches. When I was a kid you would have a “play piece” for morning break, which might be an apple or a packet of crisps.

“What have you got for your play piece today?”
“A Blue Ribband. You?”
“Banana”.

I'd never really thought about where 'play piece' came from.

 

[sparkling]

This may help:

I'm a skyscraper wean, I live on the nineteenth flair,

But I'm no gaun oot to play any mair,

Since we moved tae Castlemilk, I'm wasting away,

'Cause I'm getting one less meal every day.



O ye cannae fling pieces oot a twenty-story flat,

Seven-hundred hungry weans will testify tae that,

If it's butter, cheese or jeely, if the breid is plain or pan,

The odds against it reaching earth are ninety-nine tae wan.



On the first day my maw flung me out a dod o' Hovis broon.

It came skyting oot the windae and went up insteid o' doon,

But every twenty-seven hours it comes back into sight,

'Cause my piece went into orbit and became a satellite.



One the next day my maw flung me oot a piece once again.

It went and hit the pilot in a fast, low-flying plane.

He scraped it aff his goggles, shouting through the intercom:

`The Clydeside Reds have got me wi' a breid-and-jeely bomb!'

Brilliant!

I am learning so much.

 

[pogofish]

Do they still make those? I used to like them as a kid.

They do - although they have got a bit thinner than in the days of old. Lidl also do a creditable/cheaper imitation.

 

[pogofish]

Another question I have is why are sandwiches called a 'piece'? As in my daughter in law will ask the grandchildren if they want a piece?

A piece can be a number of things short of a sit down meal, not just a sandwich.

 

[Sue]

If it's butter, cheese or jeely, if the breid is plain or pan,

Plain loaf - Wikipedia

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Pan loaf - Wikipedia

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sparkling

 

[Aladdin]

I heard it from Bonnyrigg & Dalkeith folk! Wonder how far its use goes.

We have had them since we were little. My mum used have them as a child. Her mum was from up north ..as in Fermanagh.

 

[danny la rouge]

We have had them since we were little. My mum used have them as a child. Her mum was from up north ..as in Fermanagh.

Aye, cheese and jam is probably widespread. I think it’s calling that a “miner’s piece” that iona was asking about. I haven’t heard it called a “miner’s piece”.

 

[friedaweed]

Known as Dentist's Delight in our house growing up.

Tablet and fudge can be distinguished by their consistency: if you had a thin bit of tablet and tried to snap it in half you would get a clean-ish break whereas fudge would bend.

I was quite chuffed to find Scottish Tablet Stout in Lidl when I was in Fort William the other week. My excitement was short lived when I got to the till and the woman on the buttons said. "Ye can't have that yet sweetheart it's only 9 o'clock"
I protested that I wasn't an early morning drinker but then I realised you guys have that 10 o'clock malarkey.

I went back and got some eventually but it didnae taste like Tablet.

 

[friedaweed]

Have we covered Bridies' yet? Very nice

 

[danny la rouge]

Have we covered Bridies' yet? Very nice

Of course. Don’t come crashing in like Gwyneth on a ski slope with obvious choices.