What do you remember- seems impossible now

[meles]

Rissoles were the business - used to have those regularly at the cafe where we went for lunch from work.   I'm sure they were the same basic recipe as 'faggots', which my mother was a great fan of, but if they'd called them that on the menu I wouldn't have touched them!

Rissoles are minced beef and onions with a handful of breadcrumbs and an egg to bind it all together.

Faggots are minced offal with a handful of breadcrumbs and an egg. Wrapped up in cawl (the fat from a pig's abdomen).

I love both, but the latter are hard to find nowadays

meles

[KGarrad]

The Black & White Minstrel Show.

That certainly does seem impossible now.

Except here in the Netherlands!
Next 4 weeks will see Sinterclaas (St Nicholas) travelling around the country accompanied by Zwarte Piet (Black Pete).
Zwarte Piet is always blacked up, and very few people seem to mind?!

[Winterbloom21]

Thanks, Meles.  I rest my case!    Cawl, eh?     You were doing OK til you got to that bit!

[youngtug]

Caul is the spelling, cawl is a soup.

[cati]

Rissoles were the business - used to have those regularly at the cafe where we went for lunch from work.   I'm sure they were the same basic recipe as 'faggots', which my mother was a great fan of, but if they'd called them that on the menu I wouldn't have touched them!

Rissoles are minced beef and onions with a handful of breadcrumbs and an egg to bind it all together.

Faggots are minced offal with a handful of breadcrumbs and an egg. Wrapped up in cawl (the fat from a pig's abdomen).

I love both, but the latter are hard to find nowadays

meles

My local butcher sells faggots...

[JustBenjy]

In the haberdashery department of our local Coop, you gave the sales assistant the money and they put it into a small cylinder with the sales chitty and then put the cylinder into a pipe.  Compressed air took the cylinder to an upstairs office (I presume) where some clerk put the correct change into the cylinder and sent it back down to the sales assistant who then gave it to the customer.  This system made a lot of hissing and popping noises as you can imagine and as a 6 year old, I was fascinated.  I was really disappointed when they dismantled it     

Anyone remember the other sort of cash carriers that raced around the shop on overhead wires?

Jan

The tube is a LAMSON tube. We had them in Pages dept store in Camberley High Street. My schoolpal used to put a soggy orange in the tube, press the button and send it to accounts! The day he sent a sandwich wrapped in greaseproof paper all hell broke loose.  A variant is still in use in some Tesco stores.

The overhead wires were something else. Again, OVERS of Camberley had these in their dept store in Camberley, next to the Odeon cinema on London Road, not far from the Duke of York pub.

[JustBenjy]

Rissoles were the business - used to have those regularly at the cafe where we went for lunch from work.   I'm sure they were the same basic recipe as 'faggots', which my mother was a great fan of, but if they'd called them that on the menu I wouldn't have touched them!

Rissoles are minced beef and onions with a handful of breadcrumbs and an egg to bind it all together.

Faggots are minced offal with a handful of breadcrumbs and an egg. Wrapped up in cawl (the fat from a pig's abdomen).

I love both, but the latter are hard to find nowadays

meles

My local butcher sells faggots...


I took an American colleague shopping in Sainsburys. He found faggots in the freezer. One hour later he was still laughing, and talks about it to this day, some 20 years later.

[JustBenjy]

The Black & White Minstrel Show.

That certainly does seem impossible now.

Except here in the Netherlands!
Next 4 weeks will see Sinterclaas (St Nicholas) travelling around the country accompanied by Zwarte Piet (Black Pete).
Zwarte Piet is always blacked up, and very few people seem to mind?!

I had laughed at Morecambe and Wise for at least 40 years, then someone asked me did i think it was strange that the two guys were in bed together. I didn't until he mentioned it, and now it does seem strange but no-one seemed to think it was significant.

[Mike in Cumbria]

A young (30ish) colleague who was trawling through some paperwork suddenly burst out "Did any of you know that the Post Office used to own BT?!!"