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I can't remember how long ago we started eating peanut butter, as a teenager, I think. I do like it, but seldom eat it now due to the calorie content. My children were brought up on it, and OH always has a jar in to spread on a digestive biscuit.
Has anyone tried the Reeses range of choc/peanut butter confectionary, yummee.

Mum used to eat cottage cheese and beetroot butties. She gave us sugar butties as children in the 1950's, after the war when sugar was rationed, when it was freely available again it was declared as good for you. I ate them, but wasn't that keen really, I didn't like the crunchy sugar. We did have golden syrup in butties, auntie in the south called it treacle but we were from Morecambe Bay, and had the shrimps too. Treacle to us was the black stuff that Mum used in baking gingerbread.

We ate crisp butties too as children, but I don't eat many butties these days, too much bread for my liking.

I have tried a deep fried Mars bar and would compare them to profiteroles because the Mars bar turns into a sauce for the crunchy batter, which is not particularly salty.

The caterpillar cake has butter icing in it, I think that would be a kind of sauce for the cake which would keep its consistency but be hot and the batter would provide a crunchy element.

Don't think it would be too bad. I would have a slice or two.

Fascinating, the way people come up with ideas.

The batter looks like the colour of normal batter so I suppose the fact that the battered cake is dropped into very hot fat stops the chocolate running into the batter because the batter will have solidified quite quickly, I expect.

I'd try a piece, not only to see what it tastes like but to see what's happened to the inside of the cake when given that treatment.

What next? Battered jaffa cakes? :-0


East Kilbride brought back memories too. The ice rink was situated in the middle of a shopping centre - so shoppers could always sit and watch the happenings. I wonder if it's still there?

I hope that is a family treat ( :-S ) or do you buy a portion?

Either way - yuk.

Only in Glasgow Gwyn. I have roots in Glasgow going back more than 150 years and I suspect longer but the family names are too common. I’m very familiar with Glasgow.

Another addition to the 'deep fried' menu

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-56955873

Oh yes ........... ham salad was always "the" meal to serve to family when they visited, and for a wake after a funeral if it was held in a cafe!

We didn't often have it at any other time, but always knew that was what Mum would make, or that we would have if we went to one of the aunts!

OH and I eat a lot of salads when the weather gets warmer, have done since we got married ............. and he also remembers ham salads at the relations' houses!

We still have a roast on Sunday, then cold meat salad for 1 or 2 meals.

We even have Heinz Salad Dressing with them :-D

I tend now to say we have English salads, because "salad" over here usually means the side salad unless one specifically says "chicken and tomato salad" or something similar.

We also used to call golden syrup treacle ..... I had to think hard, what "treacle" was as I knew it wasn't called that really! I eventually "saw" the Lyal's Golden Syrup can in my mind!

We used to be able to buy it here, but I haven't looked for it for a long time. I now always have thick black molasses in the cupboard. I've been known to take a spoonful or two of that, I love it ...... although too much can result in quick trips to the bathroom!

JoyL ..... my downfall with losing teeth was the School Dentist. We had to have regular check-ups with him through the late 40s and 5os, and Mum always made me keep them. Unfortunately his treatment for needing a filling in a molar was to take it out instead! :-|

I have 4 molars missing because of him. I can still remember the Laughing Gas, and its results.

My brother took me to his dentist when I was about 14, that guy was horrified to find I was missing "so many". But the good thing was that I could not go back to the School Dentist after that. Mum wasn't too happy ...... the School Dentist was free.

I think the water where I grew up was largely responsible for my good teeth .......... it came straight from the moors, though it wasn't "peaty". I've since found out it contained natural fluoride.

Plus of course modern dentists will save teeth for as long as they can.

Mum was happy to take me to the S D partly because an uncle and his wife lived near the clinic, Dad and his brother weren't on speaking terms quite often so Mum used to take the chance to see his wife and 2 small children ........... then tell me not to tell Dad!!

Dad had 5 siblings, and it seemed that someone was always on the outs with a sibling ......... but they all would go to family celebrations, and then glare at the one they were at outs with "this" time :-D

I don't know if it was a family trait passed on from generation to generation, but only one of Dad's siblings had as many as 6 children, and they were very similar!

:-D :-D

I don’t know why but I’ve got a yearning for a proper salad cream sandwich. Haven’t had one of those for years.

You've just brought something to mind, names.

My Mum's family often entertained foreigners who sailed into Liverpool during WW2 and I remember her telling me that one time when a Russian they invited was presented with a salad he was a bit taken aback as he was amazed the English ate grass!

The first time I had peanut butter was when we were invited to the home of an American colleague of my Dad’s who was on secondment here.

The children were all given peanut butter brownies. I can’t now remember how I got rid of it after the first bite but am pretty sure I didn’t throw up. Mind you, they also had squirty cream from a can :-D

I did try again as a teenager because I liked peanuts. Never had it since.

JoyLouise, we called Golden Syrup treacle too! :-D
It was years before I realised the truth.
..and yes, we had syrup sandwiches.

Names, my pals where we moved to always called golden syrup 'treacle' so I was foxed initially. I used to have syrup butties at home but much preferred the black treacle ones. I was out of step then but, luckily Mum did buy both. <3

We all sat down to meals together too and ate the same meal, yet so many of my chums didn't.

Dad loved salads so we had lots of those which my old school pals tell me they rarely ate when they were young.

We weren't rich in monetary terms but we were lucky children, I think.

I can remember food coupons but vaguely as it was something that Mum and Dad rarely mentioned - possibly because when we moved , Dad's brother lived nearby and he was a super gardener with a massive one of his own and an allotment that I still benefitted from after marriage until we moved.

All of this brings back some really happy memories of the 40s, 50s and even the sixties. <3

That’s more like it.
Syrup on buttered bread.

Chip butties and crisp sandwiches came when I was much older.

I used to like thick butter on Jacobs cream crackers.

It was OH’s family that introduced me to bacon sarnies as a Sunday night treat - still do that.

Sylvia, you are lucky with your teeth, as am I. Did you ever never knock your milk teeth out? I always put my fairly decent teeth down to thefact that I knocked most of my milk ones out when I was about 5 but I now wonder what was in the water :-S

So far, I have only lost four and I rarely need anything doing, thank goodness, probably due to the fact that I have always looked after them as I can still recall going to the dentist umpteen times so he could get all the bits and pieces out and check on everything all those years ago.

Everyone used to like chip butties when I was young but I rarely ate them. I don't know why cos the rest of my family liked them, as did my friends, I rarely have chips even now. I do like fish finger butties though.

By the way, I am with your OH - I like my peanut butter buttie buttered too. In fact, any sandwich ought to have butter on it as far as I am concerned and the more the better. There are people of my acquaintance (see how polite I can be!) who would never dream of having a bacon buttie with the bread buttered! What's that all about - the heathens!!! :-D

I take it back now because I'm thinking of my lovely mother-in-law who never buttered a bacon buttie and she was defo not a heathen. <3

I may try a cashew nut butter buttie today. :-D

I hated the smell of peanut butter ............... I found it so bad that I would try to make daughter's sandwich with my head turned as far away as far as it would go.

OH used to put butter on his bread, and then peanut butter on top of it. It took daughter and I years before we convinced him that the butter was not necessary.

He remembers having peanut butter in England in or soon after WW2. I had never een seen it until we moved over here in 1967.

What about chip butties?

Sugar butties (bread always buttered first) and condensed milk on bread were 2 of the "treats" when I was young. Sometimes, grandma gave me golden treacle on a slice of bread

Surprisingly I have pretty decent teeth in spite of all that sweetness :-D

I also liked sandwich spread on a buttered sandwich.

I also loved potted shrimp ....... a local fishmonger used to get in small pots of them, probably from Morecambe Bay. One small pot made a lovely sandwich, a great treat!


My dad used to swear his cold treatment, was the best, he swore that if taken as soon as the first symptom was felt, then it didn't develop any further ...................

eat a whole raw onion, preferably a Spanish onion.

A couple of years after we married OH mentioned that his father always put black pepper on strawberries, but he'd never tried it.

So we tried it ......... and sure enough it brought out more of the flavour.

You lost my interest when you mentioned curry sauce :-0 :-0 :-D :-D

Umm. Probably not. :-D

You could make up for it now, names. ;-) :-D