so whatever happened to ?

[claretnproud]

chicken in a basket.
When I was a sprog we used to go to the bay horse at roughlee and have this as a treat. What does everyone else miss that perhaps isnt readily available now ?

[ClaretEngineer]

...all of the hero’s?

[Funkydrummer]

The cockles and mussels sales in the pubs from a travelling man's wicker basket.

Food hygiene regulations would never allow anything like that now.

[claretnproud]

The cockles and mussels sales in the pubs from a travelling man's wicker basket.

Food hygiene regulations would never allow anything like that now.

why was it compulsory to be a scouser to sell cockles mussels prawns .

[fatboy47]

Benny santini

[Long Time Lurker]

The cockles and mussels sales in the pubs from a travelling man's wicker basket.

Food hygiene regulations would never allow anything like that now.

Naw, now restaurants have to serve food on slabs of slate, pieces of wood or in mini straw lined crates for substantially larger prices.

Should I order chips they can be fried once or twice, but I don't expect them to resemble a game of Jenga. If I can count the chips in the stack with the fingers of two hands they haven't given me enough.

Fine dining is one of the marketing masterstrokes of modern times. A third of the food for three times the price and people actively approve of it, madness. I think food should be presented in an attractive manner, but when a chef has to "arrange" minute quantites with tweezers, stacking them high on a smaller plate to give the illusion of volume, you know that they are having a laugh at your expense.

[Clarets4me]

.. baby Jane ?

[Buxtonclaret]

Scampi & chips used to be exotic.

[Venkys4eva]

The likely lads

[Steve1956]

Our transfer kitty?

[durhamclaret]

All the Shakespearoes

[bobinho]

Leon Trotsky?

[durhamclaret]

He got an ice pick

[cricketfieldclarets]

Saturday 3pm Kick offs.

[ClaretEngineer]

That made his ears burn

[exilecanada]

.. baby Jane ?

Good one. That’ll have some of the young ‘uns on here scratching their heads.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU4vpI3DZYM

[tiger76]

Affordable twixes.

[The Enclosure]

Pickled eggs on the bar.(God they were awful)
Salt in blue paper in crisps.
Cigarette cards.
Hop Bitter in Fitzys
Bus conductors
Pub pianists
5 Woodbines
Clog irons
Gas tar
Ironies and frenchies
Football rattles and rosettes
Muddy pitches

[gawthorpe_view]

Consecutive defeats.

[Noble Peter]

Little plastic bags sold in bars that contained a triangle of dairylea ,2 silver skins onions 2 crap biscuits and a wooden knife

[CharlieinNewMexico]

Cuppies

[Rowls]

The cockles and mussels sales in the pubs from a travelling man's wicker basket.

Food hygiene regulations would never allow anything like that now.

Apart from the guy who still sells cockles and mussels like this in Nottingham...

It's a business decision why people don't do this any more.

[Rowls]

Little plastic bags sold in bars that contained a triangle of dairylea ,2 silver skins onions 2 crap biscuits and a wooden knife

Still available in the Rifle Volunteer, as well as a very nice and cheap pint too.

[bfcjg]

Chip pans and potato chippers; the ones where you put the peeled potato in the appliance then pulled a handle down which forced it through a grid. Best chips ever always made at home.

[Cirrus_Minor]

Stew and hard.