General Chat

and luxuries and what did I come back with from the shops today?

A radiator brush, kitchen scourers and some bees wax lol.

The brush got a few odd looks as I carried it through the centre, looks somewhat like a very minimalist, very thin, bendy Christmas tree :-D

Have just had my Christmas delivery from Tesco. You can tell it is the Christmas one because there is a jar of cranberry sauce included.

Sadly, my Christmas has been entirely spoilt. They could not supply the tub of cheese footballs!

Can you still get those and do they still taste the same?

My dad used to love those, would sit and munch them for hours it seemed

I've seen them in Iceland, and Sainsburys.

For us it used to be a jar of pickled walnuts that signalled Christmas, that and a box of dates lol.

I already have a radiator brush - grossly underused - the thought of decorating it for Christmas has a lot of appeal. :-D

I'm sorry, but cheese footballs sound gross.

For me, it's cheeselets, and, If I'm a very lucky bunny, Marmite Chocolate! :-D :-D

As for the cheese footballs, evidently not!

As for the cheese footballs, evidently not!

My friend has just bought her granddaughter some Marmite chocolate in the shape of a large jar of Marmite. It comes in a box and looks really good.

Kath. x

dates in a box, with the plastic "pick", and the first mandarin oranges appearing in the stores

you can still buy them like that :-)


never heard of cheese footballs!

nor Marmite chocolate .... yuck!!!

I'm shocked that no one has mentioned Twiglets yet.

Twiglets ..... a definite favourite here !

Tangerines in picture tissue wrapping meant Christmas of my childhood was imminent.

A box of lemon and orange jelly slices would be on the sideboard next to a large sharing packet of pink and white marshmallow sweets.

A jar of mango chutney was bought to go with Boxing Day lunch. The rest of the year we relied on and enjoyed Mum's homemade chutney.

Roses lime marmalade was a Christmas morning special, the rest of the year we had home produced orange variety.

...the Twiglets are here - and they're hidden :-|

We do not mention the Twiglets.
Children and Grandchildren can sniff them out at 100 yards.
Granny has 'forgotten' to buy Twiglets.
Oh dear - what a shame.

Understand?

The lemon and orange slices - were they Newberry Fruits or something similar?
So pleased I no longer have to pretend to like them!! :-D

Newberry Fruits - wonderful!

And marzipan fruits. My Nain's favourites. Pops loved sugared almonds and I was once severely told off for taking a few and just sucking off the coating and throwing the almonds away.

Maggie

The orange and lemon slices were not the same as Newberry fruits, which I believe had a liquid centre.
The slices were thin and probably cheaper.

In that case, Gwyn - they're probably nice :-D

Newberry fruits though - yuk!

a reminder lol, other brands are available, lemon & orange slices, I never liked them but someone always sent them :-)

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OH has saved Christmas!

He went into Iceland for me and came home with two tubs of cheese footballs. This was after I had rung Fred's mate and asked him to get some!

Christmas was a box of Niger dates, but we didn't pronounce it like that in those days, a ring of figs (yum yum), those candied figs, a jar of stem ginger and a box of Turkish (which I thought was turkey's) Delight.

Mustn't forget the in shell nuts that nobody ate. My mother (mad as a hatter) once brought them out for a second year.

...I may have to try cheese footballs..... :-)

Newbury fruits, yuk.