[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by smudgie

Aye, the 70's were hard as well Kirk.
I can remember my mother trying to batter a tin of peas one Sunday, we had nothing else in the house to eat....mind you we had the excitement of watching the peas escaping from the batter in the hot fat.
She worked full time but never enough money to go around

I love yer Smudgie. You have to laugh - Do you know that until I was in my late teens (and in charge of my own destiny ) I thought 'Scallops' were a slice of potato coated in batter and deep fried, because THAT is what my old man told us they were when he made them that way for us as a 'luxurious treat' when we were kids.

Remember 'bread pobs' - bits of stale bread soaked in gravy?

And my mother had three jobs and the old man was a coal miner.