lozgti

Jacket potatos used to be a treat and yes we did only have one 10p mix a week....or if it was an ultra special weekend,enough money to go and get a quarter of something....happy days though


Watching my kids turn their nose up at the chicken breast and jacket potato last night......my mother used to make broths from the bone and anything else she could get her hands on told the wife maybe we should starve them a bit

J4CKO

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Loz, yes, we have got choosy, lazy and greedy, my missus is buying all sorts of wierd, expensive organic stuff, £200 a week on shopping I worked it out to, it has to stop !

Now I am not a massive fan of Gordon Ramsey but he talks some sense, saying peoplke should use fresh, local produce that is in season, harvested within a reasonable radius, there is something wrong when stuff needs a journey on an aeroplane before it gets to the table.

Turbo2

A QUARTER!!!! You lucky, lucky b@stard! Your parents must have thought that the sun shone right out of your ar*e! We'd think ourselves lucky with 2 ounces of Rhubarb & Custards or 3 blackjacks/mojo fruit salads for a penny! We used to dream of being able to afford a quarter...

oldsplice

2 oz of sherbet pips because they lasted longer if you had one at a time. Or lemonade powder, when you used to get a yellow finger from dipping it in the bag and sucking it.

Ringpeas

One chicken used to last us a week.

Breast meat saturday
leg meat sunday
minced leftover pie monday to thursday
chicken soup on friday

Kids these days don't know how lucky they are

R 14NS R

2 oz s, we used to dream of 2 oz s, after 27 hours a day a school........

oldsplice

A whole chicken?

We use to have a parson's nose between five of us and we took it in turns to have a suck. It would last us two weeks!

Lisawrx

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I was locked in a cupboard for my childhood, with only water, and bread if I was quiet.

rb5 jeff

Parson's nose....... millionaire's food

Chicken **** sarnies for us.......

Sonic'

Thats nothing I had to go outside when it was foggy to get some pea soup

and if I was really lucky I could lick the pavement as a treat

Lisawrx

iTrader: (1)

At least you were allowed outside.

Lydia72

We were so poor even the rainbows were in black and white

daddyscoob

you lucky ba****ds we used to have to get up half an hour before we went to bed etc etc ........ lived in shoe box in middle 'a road

Gilesdwrc

RIGHT!!!

"We used to live in't paper bag in't middle of street. We'd get up half an hour before we went to bed, eat half a hand-full of cold gravel, go to work at mill for 36 hours a day and pay mill-owner for t' privilage. and then when we got 'ome our mum and dad would stab us to death w'it bread knife and then jump up and down on't grave."

"And if you tell young people that today, they wont belive you!"

I did'nt look that up I just typed. I think i got it right BUT some one will correct me.

Sonic'

very close, as I just went and read it

Turbo2

Are you Austrian by any chance?

oldsplice

Bloody hell! ........


.............you could afford bread?

SJ_Skyline

Well you're posh!

We were lucky if we got a mouthful of hot gravel!

ScoobyWon't

You lot are all so lucky. You talk about the old days

This week my entire food bill has cost £2.25. Since Sunday I have only consumed a small portion of chips and one sausage, which I could stretch to buying. I had to steal a bbq rib and two tiny chicken drumsticks off a BBQ just to eat the other day.

I don't remember the last time I had bread. I can't even afford any mayonaisse to mix into a tin of tuna that I have in the cupboard.

I resorted to staring at the tomatoes in the greenhouse and willing them to grow faster just so I can eat something. If not I may have to mow the lawn and start eating the grass

And you lot think I'm joking

Tsk, you lot don't know you're born.

oldsplice

If you could afford to get wasted at the weekend, you can afford to get yourself some food.

Don't try that old 'I need someone (read - girly) to come round and cook me something because I'm wasting away and will be just a pair of eyes!' trick. It won't work with us.........Ha!

Lisawrx

iTrader: (1)

You tell him Kim.

He puts us genuinely poor to shame.

oldsplice

ScoobyWon't

You know it's me who always cooks for the women who come round When I say cook, I mean ply with alcohol and feed them a small aperitif

Failing that, i lock them in the cellar for 24 years

At what point did I actually claim to have paid for the booze at the weekend?

The two bottles of Montana Sauvignon Blanc were FOC as I had recommended them and they had proven to be a great.

I only spent £10 on booze. Everyone else kept giving me pints without me asking Besides, what is more important, food or getting a woman drunk as you can't pull if they are sober?


You know nuffink

On a serious note, I've started thinking about getting a job

oldsplice

No change there, then!


..............and you know I'm only joshing yer, you big girl's blouse!

ScoobyWon't

Ferkin muppet