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We were always offered bread and butter with our tinned fruit on Sundays. Mum was a Norwich girl, Dad from Bucks so not sure which of them or both influenced the choice.

Lizx

Spot on, I think, Gwyn.

It could certainly have been a fill-up thing.

Dad's upbringing was quite hard with only basic food and no 'niceties'.

Perhaps food just for it's pleasant taste was not an easy concept for him. It had to fill you up too.

Thanks Gwyn.

I had wondered whether it had come across from Ireland to the NE but ruled that out because surely at least one of my Liverpool family would have b and b with fruit and vappy too and none of them did.

Perhaps it was down to taste or it was a fill-up in the same way that Yorkshire puddings came about.

Someone may know.

JoyLouise

Dad, born and raised in Portsmouth always had bread and butter if he had tinned fruit and evaporated milk.

Elizabeth, my much younger sister also had vappy (as we called it) when she was a baby. It was the only thing she would have and now, when we talk about it, she wonders how on earth she survived ..... Ha ha, so many babies of that era were given the same.

Mum and Dad often used to have vappy in their coffee.

I like condensed milk butties. I like Spam too - which is what my Mum said she lived on when she was pregnant with me. During the war Spam ruled! :-D

Sunday tea at m-in-laws always came with tinny fruit and vappy complete with bread and butter (always butter, never the other stuff). I'm not sure whether the bread and butter with it was a north-eastern thing - perhaps Elizabeth will know?

Have it now, sometimes, Yvonne. I love evaporated milk on crumble, or other desserts. In fact, I might look in the cupboard now and see what tinned fruit is there, I know there is evap.milk

Lizx

loved evap milk when I was a kid, with tinned fruit.

When us kids asked what's for dinner mum would say fresh air and green grass

I used to deliver the paper to a farm cottage where they had milk straight off the farm and The lady would always make me a cup of tea.

One winter the cows were given apple pulp, probably from a cider factory somewhere, and the milk was horrible. I drank my tea black there for a while.

Once it had gone in with all the other milk at the dairy it would not taste any different from other times.

I used to deliver the paper to a farm cottage where they had milk straight off the farm and The lady would always make me a cup of tea.

One winter the cows were given apple pulp, probably from a cider factory somewhere, and the milk was horrible. I drank my tea black there for a while.

Once it had gone in with all the other milk at the dairy it would not taste any different from other times.

My mum used to buy steralised milk too . I remember the bottles always had metal caps on them that had to prised off

It was very strong so mum would water it down to stretch it out a bit

Hated it in tea ,was more palatable in camp coffee

Didn't like it on cereals but at times it was take it or leave it . Not that we were allowed to leave food

My grandad used to have steralised milk in his tea,,,,,,it smelt awful.

oh yes ...............


condensed milk butty :-D


the other "treat" my grandma used to give me was a sugar butty :-D

Fifty or so years ago! Evaporated milk was Dr Spock's standard prescription for babies and my third baby was weaned on to it quite early - they all loved it!

I used to have the condensed milk from the tin yummy. ;-)

Maggie,

I'd never heard of that until I met OH's family.
I think he used to scoop out the centre from a Vienna loaf (remember them?) and fill the gap with condensed milk.

Mmmmmm - condensed milk on bread :-D

My son's Nanna in Malta always served evaporated milk to put in tea, never fresh milk.

We always had tinned fruit and evaporated milk for Sunday tea but Mum called it unsweetened millk as opposed to sweetened milk which was her name for condensed milk.

My friend's Mum, a Londoner, used to say 'bread and pull-it', my Norfolk Mum would say 'fresh air sandwiches', and it was always 'up in Nellie's room behind the clock' from Dad, from Buckinghamshire, if we couldn't find something lol

Lizxx

My grandfather used to have very strng tea with evaporated milk in it

yuk!

He is right though. Bleh!