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In M*******sons today on special offer, Loin of Pork. They are selling at £3.00 each, and are about four chops thickness, but are ideal for a roast for two people. Only aloud to have two. So I did, for the freezer.
Julia in Derbyshire

Have edited this to read loin of [pork, but is still showing as lion.

tescos were doing more or less the same thing last week? about a kilo for a fiver. no restriction on how many though....

Bob

we had one meal each and some sandwiches off one of em!

Because the feed all the cattle to the pig's...

Sounds good.... must phone son to pick one up for us.
Beef sausages, I am not sure of... not a great lover of sausages.
Deanna X

MARION...............really?
The way things are going it would not really surprise me.
Deanna X
ps... how are you Marion?x

Awe sorry Budgie, I didn't know they did not sell Beef Sausage, just assumed they did. I tend to buy the 'flat' sausage, in there. In a cob, better than a burger. But then I am used to that type of sausage from my childhood in Scotland.
But, on the whole, I do not buy my meat regularly from there anyway. I use the farm shop, down the hill, in proper D.H. Lawrence country. I think it was mentioned in Sons and Lovers. However, couldn't resist todays special offer.
Julia in Derbyshire

lol only kidding Deanna. I have no idea why, never noticed as I dont buy beef sausages. Well I tell a lie I buy Lorne for oh.

I'm fine thank Deanna.Just waiting on new Grandcihld due in two weeks ;))

Marion, thank you. That is the name of the sausage I was refering to. Lorne sausage.
As a child, I was down here in Derbyshire, well actually in Nottinghamshire, staying with an aunt. On the night I was due to travel back to Scotland, midnight train from Nottingham Victoria Station, wow, nearly sixty years ago, my aunts neighbours asked me if I wanted to come into their house a have a bit of supper with them. She said they were having Susage Rolls. Yes said me. When I got my plate, there was one of the ones we know here now, in puff pastry. I was expecting a 'slice' of Lorne on a bread bap. One of my eternal memories of childhood.
Julia in Derbyshire

Julia

My Dad lived in England and every time we went down I had to take him some down, We used to buy the whole block of it and have it vacum packed then in the cool bag.along with black pudding with no big fatty bits he got down there...and plain bread lol

I used to eat it till about 15/20 yr when I stopped eating beef.

Awe Marion - you've never lived until you have eaten 'Plain Bread' It's absolute heaven. Used to be able to get in Derby's Market Hall, but havn't seen it for years. A yen for the old foods of my childhood
Julia in Derbyshire

Nothing about Morrisons or sausages but read about an enduring memory of food from childhood.
I always had the pink wafer out of a box of biscuits,it was my favourite.Uncle Arch and Aunty Evie came to tea one Sunday and they brought a bag of wafers in several different colours.Oh dear me,Heaven in a bag or what!

Sharron, I know what you mean. Heaven.
Marion, what about cinder toffee. Not seen that for years.
And a cut of steak called Popes Eye. Definitely can't get that here as we cut up out beasts differently
Julia in Derbyshire

Plain bread toasted on a coal fire.....yum.

You get pink wafer biscuits Sharron..pink panther??

Puff candy??



EDIT*Just googled... it is the same*

Interesting thread for a southerner. What exactly is plain bread?

Ann, as a mere southern Sassenach, well Midlander really ,I am perhaps not the best person to describe it, but I'll have a go.
It is basically a 'tall' loaf of bread, that is of denser texture than English bread. As I seem to remember, it did not have crusts, well not of any significance, and came sliced and wrapped in greaseproof paper. It was altogether a nicer bread than what we are used to.
Come back Marion, and elaborate. Please.
Julia in Derbyshire

Thanks Julia.

I don't want pink wafers nowThis was back in the days when Uncle Arch and Aunty Evie used to come for tea sometimes on a Sunday.Like 1957ish.
This was when I had a great gastronomic disappointment too.Ice-cream had to come homefrom the shop wrapped in newspaper and kept in the draught by the door.A new flavour came out,raspberry ripple,and I had to have it and kept poking the package by the draught in anticipation.
When I tasted it I hated it and I am sure I have never been the same since!

Please stop talking about Plain bread and Lorne sausage. You are making me homesick.
Plain bread is made in batches with one loaf being baked alongside the others, consequently only has a top and bottom crust unlike ordinary bread which is baked in tins/pans.


A Scot living in England

Shake hands then Robert. I came from here, went to there, and came back again. But I do miss it, it's culture, and its foods, aongst other things.
It was my childhood, with very happy memories.
Julia in Derbyshire