Things that time forgot.

[Anna]

Rissoles.
Treacle tart.
And spam fritters!

Treacle tarts are on sale everyday at Waitrose in the chilled desserts section for £3.99! (other supermarkets are available )
Spam is still a best seller I think (as to fritters, who knows what purchasers of Spam do with it)
Rissoles - surely we just call them meatballs now?

[P. G. Tipps]

Humbug ...

[HighlandDougie]

In the Glasgow of my youth a bottle of heavily-fortified wine called Lanliq was overwhelmingly the preferred tipple for rather more granite-throated D/E consumers, and which tended to last considerably less long.

Bon Dieu! A sudden Proustian flashback - not the mention of madeleines which has me thinking back to when I was 15 (and 6'1" so I might conceivably passed as older) and was the one sent into the off-licence (in Ayr - not quite as rough as Greenock but ...) to buy cans of McEwans Pale Ale and a half-bottle of "Lanny" (aka Lanliq) to wash them down while skulking in one of the shelters on the promenade. I think being sick on the bus home might have featured as a coda to the evening (I lived in the country).

[Serial_Apologist]

Humbug ...

Obtainable from the House of Commons.

[Serial_Apologist]

Rissoles - surely we just call them meatballs now?

Rissoles contained lamb, potato, barley and maybe bread, wrapped in breadcrumbs, whereas meatballs are just mincemeat bound together with egg? I could well be wrong on both counts!

[Ferretfancy]

Rissoles contained lamb, potato, barley and maybe bread, wrapped in breadcrumbs, whereas meatballs are just mincemeat bound together with egg? I could well be wrong on both counts!

Rissoles flat, meatballs round, I had some the other night at the Barbican They came bathed in tomato sauce.

A little man walked up and down,
He found an eating place in town,
He read the menu through and through
To see what fifteen cents would do

One meatball, one meatball,
He could afford but one meatball

He told the waiter near at hand,
The simple dinner he had planned
The guests were startled, one and all,
To hear that waiter loudly call, What

"One meatball, one meatball?
Hey this here guest wants one meatball"

The little man felt ill at ease,
Said, "Some bread,sir, if you please,"
The waiter hollered down the hall,
'You gets no bread with one meatball."

One meatball, one meatball,
Well, you gets no bread with one meatball"

[P. G. Tipps]

Obtainable from the House of Commons.

Yes, pity it doesn't allow those aforementioned gobstoppers to be completely free on MPs' expenses, as well ... ?

[ahinton]

Obtainable from the House of Commons.

Ba(c)h!...

And you omitted mention of the House of Lords (no offence to member Lordgeous, by the way)...

[ahinton]

Yes, pity it doesn't allow those aforementioned gobstoppers to be completely free on MPs' expenses, as well ... ?

Oh, I think that pretty much everything is available on expense3s as long as sufficent effort is made to ensure that it is so, P.G...

[vinteuil]

... on the Paris metro, those big grey metal doors at the entrance to the platforms which slammed shut when a train entered the station.

You see them in the lovely 1963 Audrey Hepburn / Cary Grant film Charade, on the telly the other week...

[mangerton]

Bon Dieu! A sudden Proustian flashback - not the mention of madeleines which has me thinking back to when I was 15 (and 6'1" so I might conceivably passed as older) and was the one sent into the off-licence (in Ayr - not quite as rough as Greenock but ...) to buy cans of McEwans Pale Ale and a half-bottle of "Lanny" (aka Lanliq) to wash them down while skulking in one of the shelters on the promenade. I think being sick on the bus home might have featured as a coda to the evening (I lived in the country).

The country? I know about these Ayrshire villages. Dreadful places. I left Renfs. and crossed the border to live in Sk......ie.

[Nick Armstrong]

The Austin Allegro - the worst car of all time - closely followed by the rest of the BL stable...

An amusing look at the Allegro and its pretentious sibling, the Vanden Plas, together with its forebears and foreign rivals... and an interview with the poor chap who designed it who featured in the Telegraph article... forms the latter part of this programme, just finished on BBC2

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

The Austin Allegro - the worst car of all time - closely followed by the rest of the BL stable.....

Not all British Leyland cars were bad for their time. Even the Allegro wasn't as bad as the fleets of Ladas, Yugos and old Skodas.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Students wearing college scarfs.

[french frank]

Not all British Leyland cars were bad for their time. Even the Allegro wasn't as bad as the fleets of Ladas, Yugos and old Skodas.

My first car was a BL. I still have the BL Royal Stewart tartan travelling rug that came with it.

Oh, I was going to take a photo of the logo, but I see it was BMC - which later became BL.

Oh, well, remember BMC?