Things that time forgot.

[Nick Armstrong]

Tureens

[teamsaint]

Tureens

tea trolleys in the office.

Tea and sausage rolls we used to have at what is now HMRC.

designed to cut the governments pension oblgations.

actually my first proper job was in an office at Calor Gas. every morning at 10 AM the hooter went, and all the lads from the works and us softies in the office trooped into the canteen for the morning favourite, tea/coffee and Bacon and Black pudding rolls. Yum.

sometime during my spell there, a chap told me that the average Calor gas company pension was actually drawn for a massive 9 months.

I sensed an actuarial hand behind that mid morning refreshment.......

[Anna]

Tureens

Still used today in high class establishments! I have some by Denby which are always in evidence at Christmas.

However, fish knives and forks aren't

[vinteuil]

I think it was 2 Christmas' ago, someone on the Wine Thread recommended Williams & Humbert 12 year old Oloroso ....... well, it was so awful it had to be very diluted to make it halfway drinkable!

o Anna!!!

The sherry in question was Williams and Humbert As You Like It - apparently found in a dark corner of their cellars after 30 years and then bottled . We had a half bottle at Christmas - £20 so not cheap but it did truly have an extraordinarily long finish - meant a very small glass could be sipped for ages .

... you were so lucky to have some - and you diluted it !!!

Current Wine Society catalogue has it - "This astonishing sherry has rich dried-fruit flavours, grown mellow and complex during long barrel maturation. Medium sweet, rich yet tempered with freshness, this can be enjoyed with blue cheese, or a prune frangipane tart or by itself. 20.5% £22 per half"

http://www.thewinesociety.com/shop/productdetail.aspx?section=pd&pd=SH682

[P. G. Tipps]

Trust you to lower the tone! It was a popular drink in Greenock too, and on a per capita basis more wine was consumed there even than in Glasgow.

Other drinks of choice amongst the denizens of Greenock's Marine Bar (which opened at 8 am) and similar establishments included VP, Four Crown, and Eldorado.

Indeed, the alcohol consumption of those legendary local beverages in that marvellous wee toun by foreign sailors was something which, I'm sure, was never before witnessed by its fine and (mostly) upstanding citizens and, I fervently hope, never will be again, mangerton!

[mangerton]

Indeed, the alcohol consumption of those legendary local beverages in that marvellous wee toun by foreign sailors was something which, I'm sure, was never before witnessed by its fine and (mostly) upstanding citizens and, I fervently hope, never will be again, mangerton!

I'm not sure that it was only foreign sailors who consumed these concoctions. After all, a foreign sailor was rather unlikely to have been responsible for this headline in the local paper, - "MAN THROWS WARDROBE AT WIFE".

[Ferretfancy]

Still used today in high class establishments! I have some by Denby which are always in evidence at Christmas.

However, fish knives and forks aren't

Norman presumably no longer phones for the fish knives as cook is a little unnerved.

I have a soft spot for those pale green Woods Beryl cups and saucers. There must be a large cache of them in the Beeb's props department as they still turn up in TV tea party scenes.

Incidentally why does no actor ever get a full cup of tea on stage or screen?

[P. G. Tipps]

Norman presumably no longer phones for the fish knives as cook is a little unnerved.

I have a soft spot for those pale green Woods Beryl cups and saucers. There must be a large cache of them in the Beeb's props department as they still turn up in TV tea party scenes.

Incidentally why does no actor ever get a full cup of tea on stage or screen?

Do actors actually get anything in the cup at all?

I'm not a theatre-goer but judging by plays I've seen on screen the 'drinker' always appears to be eagerly sipping studio air from a clearly empty cup or mug.

Maybe directors are afraid of unscripted spillages due to nervous, shaky hands?

[Tevot]

Opal Fruits

[Barbirollians]

o Anna!!!



... you were so lucky to have some - and you diluted it !!!

Current Wine Society catalogue has it - "This astonishing sherry has rich dried-fruit flavours, grown mellow and complex during long barrel maturation. Medium sweet, rich yet tempered with freshness, this can be enjoyed with blue cheese, or a prune frangipane tart or by itself. 20.5% £22 per half"

http://www.thewinesociety.com/shop/p...on=pd&pd=SH682

I have had that sherry - I read a tasting note that said its finish was interminable . It was true it was amazingly intense and a one small glass was more than enough . Not quite my style of sherry though - I prefer really dry sherries .

[Serial_Apologist]

Rissoles.
Treacle tart.
And spam fritters!

[french frank]

Opal Fruits

And Spangles?

[Serial_Apologist]

And Spangles?

Refreshers? They seemed very "modern" when they first came out, compared with boring rubbery Spangles!

[french frank]

Refreshers? They seemed very "modern" when they first came out, compared with boring rubbery Spangles!

Spangles weren't rubbery - they were boiled sweets, crunchy. Rubbery ones were things like Rowntrees Fruit Gums. Refreshers were sort of sherbet-y. Quite nice.

[Serial_Apologist]

Spangles weren't rubbery - they were boiled sweets, crunchy. Rubbery ones were things like Rowntrees Fruit Gums. Refreshers were sort of sherbet-y. Quite nice.

Ah yes, you're right ff - I remember now! "Have you got the Fruit Gums mum?"