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carole-fordy
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PENNY WINK'S, ATE THEM BY THE BAG FULL, I NEVER REALLY NEW WHAT THEY WERE THEN, UGH!! :Aah:
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brummie nick
master brummie
penny winkles
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Wendy
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I remember the sellers came round the pubs in Brum, do they still do that there were various names for periwinkles. I hated them but Michael loves them.
The little shells with a winkle inside. My dad used to love them.
Di.Poppitt
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
In the 50's our local chippy on Witton Road sold whelks. Brian would treat himself to a bag on his way home from our house. Ugh........
sylviasayers
master brummie
They came in a brown paper bag
When I lived in Burlington Street, late 1950s to 1967 every Sunday afternoon the periwinks man would come round with his basket carriage shouting his wares,, my then husband always bought some but I think they were wrapped in newspaper then, our young son aged about 2 or 3 years loved them too. Me I couldn't even look as they sat picking them out with a pin - ugh...
When I lived in Burlington Street, late 1950s to 1967 every Sunday afternoon the periwinks man would come round with his basket carriage shouting his wares,, my then husband always bought some but I think they were wrapped in newspaper then, our young son aged about 2 or 3 years loved them too. Me I couldn't even look as they sat picking them out with a pin - ugh...
Alf
Gone but not forgotten. R.I.P.
Phil
Gone, but not forgotten.
I remember when I was a young sprog of about eight years of age I was taken to town by my uncle who was about 15 at the time. We went all around the old market hall to nearly every stall that sold them and had penny winkles, cockles, muscles, and crab claws.
By the time I got home I was feeling terrible, On entering the house it only took the smell of what Mom was cooking for dinner, and I only had enough time to dash out the door and up the yard to the loo. Where I was as sick as the proverbial dog.
I have never eaten any thing that has come out of the sea since.
pmc1947
By the time I got home I was feeling terrible, On entering the house it only took the smell of what Mom was cooking for dinner, and I only had enough time to dash out the door and up the yard to the loo. Where I was as sick as the proverbial dog.
I have never eaten any thing that has come out of the sea since.
pmc1947
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Kandor
Guest
Winkles? well if you want to eat the closest thing to a Bogey I know of, feel free...yuk..
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Wendy
Guest
Oh I do agree with that Kandor! I only eat from the sea what swims!
Wow, the efforts that transport goes to in Britain to move fresh fish from the ports to the inland cities and you guys turn your noses up at it!!! We are over a thousand miles away from the ocean here and what fish we get is not anywhere near as fresh as you guys get and nowhere near as plentyfull. I love sea food and would kill for a plate of whelks. But thinking again about it, perhaps we should refrain from eating it and let the oceans recover. Put that cod down. Shame on you.
PS. you can eat the chips. er..salt and vinegar with that?
PS. you can eat the chips. er..salt and vinegar with that?
Sakura
master brummie
How I would love some English fish, we had fish and chips last night which is very rare. My fish was just batter, the fish was so thin I couldn't find it. John's looked healthier than mine. I didn't even have enough fish to give the cats a bit. I think it is the last time we go there. Mo
Mo
Oisin
gone but not forgotten
When I first saw the title of this thread I thought of all sorts of things that might come in a brown paper bag - none suitable for discussion on an open forum (must be me BARbrain) - and periwinkles wasn't one of them.
As a kid I loved them. I can remember going to the stalls at the Bull Ring where they'd be piles, ready shelled, on a marble counter top. One of us would hold a paper bag at the edge of the counter to catch what tumbled when another scally nudged the pile. We'd then run like hell.
On telling her how much I enjoyed them, my wife recently brought me some still in their shells that she'd bought in the Bull Ring and, to be honest, they weren't half as nice as they tasted years ago.
As a kid I loved them. I can remember going to the stalls at the Bull Ring where they'd be piles, ready shelled, on a marble counter top. One of us would hold a paper bag at the edge of the counter to catch what tumbled when another scally nudged the pile. We'd then run like hell.
On telling her how much I enjoyed them, my wife recently brought me some still in their shells that she'd bought in the Bull Ring and, to be honest, they weren't half as nice as they tasted years ago.
Di.Poppitt
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
I neve dared even try one, but I was always fascinated by the way they were stuck with pins, and then when the war ended and you could buy pomegranates, and every mother did, and they gave us pins to eat them with - well................
I just wish you could all try a usefull 1 1/2 to 2 lb lobster right now. Boiled and served in it's shell with a baked potato and butter. I am going to shock you now but I like broccoli as a veg with that. Fortunately lobsters are plentifull on the east coast here and the prices there are not bad.
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Beryl M
Guest
We always have fish on Fridays out of habbit. . . Stuart cooks an excellent meal. . . But sometimes we do go to a place called 'The Galleon' for fish and chips - No shell fish for me -scavengers of the sea -I am allergic -
Di.Poppitt
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
No shock Rupet, I love broccoli - with anything. Lobster is too strong for me, but I can enjoy crayfish with a lovely herby salad.
old paper bags
if you keep your unwrapped mushrooms in an old brown paper bag
in the cubbard it preserves them and stops them from going off and sweating
and also it works with any few pototoes you may have left out of your plastic
pototoesbag stops them going soft
in this day and age with the globale warming and our recycleing problems
i think they should reconsider bringing back the handy carrier
which is easier to dispose off
i know there is a factory in highgate b,ham turning them out by the thousands
get rid of the plastic and reistate the old handy carrier , [the old brown bag ]
the old brown handy carrier bag will make its come back .
have a nice day evertbody best wishes astonian ,
if you keep your unwrapped mushrooms in an old brown paper bag
in the cubbard it preserves them and stops them from going off and sweating
and also it works with any few pototoes you may have left out of your plastic
pototoesbag stops them going soft
in this day and age with the globale warming and our recycleing problems
i think they should reconsider bringing back the handy carrier
which is easier to dispose off
i know there is a factory in highgate b,ham turning them out by the thousands
get rid of the plastic and reistate the old handy carrier , [the old brown bag ]
the old brown handy carrier bag will make its come back .
have a nice day evertbody best wishes astonian ,
sylviasayers
master brummie
They came in a brown paper bag.
I use recyclable bags from Wilkinsons at 50p each. I wouldn't like to go back to the brown paper carrier bags, I remember only too well how they came apart if you were caught in the rain, or the string handles came away if you had to carry anything heavy.
I use recyclable bags from Wilkinsons at 50p each. I wouldn't like to go back to the brown paper carrier bags, I remember only too well how they came apart if you were caught in the rain, or the string handles came away if you had to carry anything heavy.
jennyann
Gone but not forgotten. R.I.P.
I agree with Sylvia to some extent about the carrier bags. Too true that they melted in the rain and weren't great for heavy loads. They were all we had except for the regular shopping bags which had to do legion service before their handles came apart and then we fixed them until we really had to buy a new bag or two.
Where I live the garden refuse is picked up weekly and last year the council went from plastic bags to brown paper ones. We were pleased in one way but we wondered about the rain we tend to get here on the coast especially in the winter months. Overall, the paper bags are very strong and if you stand them on stones they are fine.
Ikea is now charging for bags.
For grocery, I have noticed in the large superstores people turn up with many varieties of special shopping bags to take their groceries away these days, which is good. We bought four very large plastic woven bags from Ikea and they are strong and we find we can pack everything so that when we arrive home and climb the stairs to the first floor where the kitchen is we can unload straight into cupboards. etc. Everything is grouped together. This method is fine as long as you don't overload each bag. It's the best thing we have found over the years. Before we had endless bags and wasn't sure what was in each one. This system works at pack your own groceries places though. It can work at places like Safeway if you put the groceries on the turntable in a particular order to be packed by the clerk.
We used to have a choice of paper or plastic but then the paper disappeared.
Other stores that use plastic bags we in turn use them for daily rubbish.
I read today that New York City is proposing to return to paper for the above.
Where I live the garden refuse is picked up weekly and last year the council went from plastic bags to brown paper ones. We were pleased in one way but we wondered about the rain we tend to get here on the coast especially in the winter months. Overall, the paper bags are very strong and if you stand them on stones they are fine.
Ikea is now charging for bags.
For grocery, I have noticed in the large superstores people turn up with many varieties of special shopping bags to take their groceries away these days, which is good. We bought four very large plastic woven bags from Ikea and they are strong and we find we can pack everything so that when we arrive home and climb the stairs to the first floor where the kitchen is we can unload straight into cupboards. etc. Everything is grouped together. This method is fine as long as you don't overload each bag. It's the best thing we have found over the years. Before we had endless bags and wasn't sure what was in each one. This system works at pack your own groceries places though. It can work at places like Safeway if you put the groceries on the turntable in a particular order to be packed by the clerk.
We used to have a choice of paper or plastic but then the paper disappeared.
Other stores that use plastic bags we in turn use them for daily rubbish.
I read today that New York City is proposing to return to paper for the above.
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Wendy
Guest
I have taken my own bags to the supermarket for years. I think it started when we went to Germany they charge for all plastic bags so most Germans use cotton bags. We have quite a varied selection. The good thing is when they get grubby you can wash them! Their recycling is amazing. They recycle everything even in the parks there are separate bins for plastic and paper. The other thing we noticed is the children put everything in the appropriate bins. Refuse collection is done by the recycling companies, so it pays for itself done by these companies not local orthorities. I am not sure if this is the whole of the country but it was where we stayed.
