SecretLeeds - History, culture and architecture in Leeds

Talk of pork pies in another thread has made me think of the foods I used to get when I was a kid in the later 1940s to later 1950s. Full fat milk, thick cream, margarine, dripping sandwiches with lots of salt on them (I particularly liked the meaty looking gel like stuff below the fat layer in dripping), fried bacon and eggs, Yorkshire pudding, home-made buns (not called muffins then!) cakes and bread, suet puddings, pork pies, etc. Yet despite all the fatty food, me and other kids never had excess weight. I guess it was because we spent more time playing outside rather than being indoors, as there was little to do indoors then (televisions were still rare though we got one in time to see the 1953 Coronation). What I would guess will now be considered a very poor basic diet as a kid it should have led to me becoming obese very many years back, but it did not (I suspect also like most others of my generation).

Can you still get a 'bacon dip' from a sandwich shop? We used to eat these everyday in the late 70s / early 80s, along with 'tom dips'. I'm sure you know what I'm talking about but for anyone who doesnt know its basically a breadcake cut in half and dipped in either hot bacon fat or hot tinned tomatoes / juice. If we were particularly flush we'd get a bacon AND tom dip - 15p - Bargain!

LeoThat silver top school milk in little bottles (mid 1960's for me) used to be delivered at about 8.00am then left to 'mature' till our mid-morn treat.But we was tough, and we took it, and we enjoyed it. I also escaped lardiness/being corpulant etc.Somewhere up near the Merrion Centre? there was Terrys All-Night cafe with an alsation asleep on the freezer in the kitchen pre- healthnsafety.

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Jogon wrote: how do you put a picture to your name? In your personal profile there is a User icon URL. When you have found an icon you want you then enter its URL. Mine for example is img1.jurko.net/avatar_12772.jpg which I think I must have found from the jurko website at http://avatars.jurko.net/. There are other avatar sites. I hope that helps.     

Most helpful leo.Shall experiment..... (wanders off baffled and asks kids to do it for him)

Jogon wrote: Most helpful leo.Shall experiment..... (wanders off baffled and asks kids to do it for him) It has clearly worked! You do not have to keep that one permanantly as it can be changed. I used to have a very brief animated penquin one.

It is (apart from my own) a favourite cat. Frostie, turn your volume up = http://youtu.be/8gyY5kN5IjA