Serving and saving salad

[mangerton]

Definitely, and not just aunts: my Mum insisted we ate some sandwiches before we could tuck into the chocolate sponge!

Oh yes. Moi aussi.

Anna mentioned bridge rolls. In my innocent childhood I thought they were so-called because they were bridge shaped.

She also raised the question of tea/afternoon tea/high tea. Of course these terms have varied meanings depending on time, locality, and (dare I say it?) class.

In Scotland in my youth we had "dinner" at lunch time, and "tea" at tea time. This was "high tea", and involved the use of a knife and fork. "Afternoon tea" was a genteel "sandwiches on the settee with aunty" - not much use for hungry children!

[ahinton]

Let's not forget a few tasty flavour-bomb additions - home-made garlicky chivey (perhaps cheesy too) croutons, anchovies, toasted pine nuts, ditto walnuts, crumbled blue cheese .. oh the permutations are almost endless

Has anyone mentioned chicory with slice orange?

Oh, joy indeed! I should have mentioned most of those but I didn't think that my list would be taken as remotely comprehensive!

[ahinton]

Oh yes. Moi aussi.

Anna mentioned bridge rolls. In my innocent childhood I thought they were so-called because they were bridge shaped.

She also raised the question of tea/afternoon tea/high tea. Of course these terms have varied meanings depending on time, locality, and (dare I say it?) class.

In Scotland in my youth we had "dinner" at lunch time, and "tea" at tea time. This was "high tea", and involved the use of a knife and fork. "Afternoon tea" was a genteel "sandwiches on the settee with aunty" - not much use for hungry children!

Well, in Scotland in my youth we had lunch at lunchtime, dinner at dinner time and very occasionally also "tea" at tea time but never "high tea" or "afternoon tea" with all that goes with such things.

As for "salad cream", it's always struck me as a forced and unpalatable fusion of mayonnaise and diesel...

[Anna]

We had lunch at 1pm and dinner at 6.30pm when father got back from work. I think we called it dinner because (apart from Summer salads) it was a two course cooked meal. The only time we had 'tea' was on Sunday, and because we were stuffed full of the traditional roast it was just a sandwich, (sometimes in the Winter a jacket potato or soup & bread) plus remains of any pudding or fruit.
Fancy teas with a variety of sandwiches and cakes were reserved for visitors!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Well, in Scotland in my youth we had lunch at lunchtime, dinner at dinner time and very occasionally also "tea" at tea time but never "high tea" or "afternoon tea" with all that goes with such things.

Same in Lancashire in the '60s & '70s. (Tell that to kids today, and they don't believe you!)

As for "salad cream", it's always struck me as a forced and unpalatable fusion of mayonnaise and diesel...

Oh! So Scottish schools had the same caterers as NELancs School Meals Services? (We were slightly posher: they bunged a teaspoonful of mustard powder into the mix.)

[Beef Oven]

To this day, I do not know why school dinner salads were served with two scoops of grey mash potato with two little lumps of uncooked potato per scoop.

Having a completely foreign mother, school dinners were my only exposure to the ways and wherefores of British cuisine in my formative years.

Salad cream is a modern-day enigma.

[Ferretfancy]

I find the smoked seal blubber will taint the salad

any more Viz top tips ?

I went on a trip to the Ross Sea back in 2006 ( The way you do ) We didn't get seal blubber, although there were plenty of fur seals. We did get salad though, available every day for three weeks and absolutely fresh. How they did that I've never been able to figure.

[Flosshilde]

[COLOR="#0000FF"] ham... I think the latter was sometimes out of a tin, with accompanying jelly...

I rather liked the jelly.

[vinteuil]

Salad cream is a modern-day enigma.

I think it was Alan Coren who established that the best use of salad cream was as a cleaning agent for the chrome bumpers of the family car.