FOOD                             

Bloody Nice

This week for the first time ever I ate black puding. I have always avoided it, made as it of pig's blood and cereal. It was on offer in the supermarket "to clear", and I thought what could I lose, if I didn't like it leftovers would be gobbled up by the Gulls. The Gulls didn't get any.

It still comes some way behind my favourtie dish of baby sprouts, lightly cooked, and lavishly drizzeled with a sauce of butter and Marmite warmed to runny, ( which I wait for with anticipation as the sprout season approaches), but black pudding will definately be finding it's way into my kitchen in the future.

Boiling

When I was at infant's school, at the assembly on or nearest to our birthday we would be called to the front and presented with an unwrapped boiled sweet by the head teacher. We were expected to pop said sweet into our mouth straight away. We all hated boild sweets!  The (un)fortunate child who had recieved the 'treat' would bolt out of the school hall, trying to swallow as infrequently as possible, and find an out of the way place to spit the sweet out. I still believe that the head teacher bulk bought boiled sweets in  the thought that we kids would have this happy memory of our days at the school.

Zippy Ice Cream

Does anyone else remember a type of ice cream bar from the 50s called Zippy?

It came in the form of a slice of ice cream in three colours, including green. It was placed between two wafers, and then the strip of thin cardboard that surounded the sides was stripped away, and there you were, ready to eat.

POLLOCK

My cat loves Pollock! It tastes of nothing at all, but he obviously has more refined taste buds than I do.

I now read that soon fish fingers are to be made of Pollock. I haven't bought fish fingers in years, they are too much crumb to too little fish, but if they taste of nothing (except crumbs) then I cannot see the point of eating them at all.

IS IT ME?

Is it me or does chocolate ice cream taste of anything except chocolate these days?

The Marmite Thins!

Marmite has got thinner! I kid you not, the price is the same, but the Marmite now has the consistancy of runny honey. This 'watering down' means we have been subjected to a price increase by the back door. What a swizz! Bring back proper, hard to spread, Marmite, that we have enjoyed for generations.