Had it before from either English shop or chip shop at Birkdale

We had american service personel renting the house next door throughout the Early 70s...they shopped on base, but lived in the community...

So I was introduced to ALL kinda of wild and exotic foods and stuff... Tuna...dry roast peanuts.... Green peppers... And WATERMELON... Something I had only ever seen in cartoons on TV... Likewise peanut butter and tinned spgahetti in tomato sauce that was shaped like letters of the alphabet... Graham crackers .... And multivitamins that were shaped like cartoon characters and tasted of cherry and grape.... Not just rank tasting round orangeish flavoured things....

The mothers never worked, so they would offer to look after me if I was sick from school...as both mine did....

I became an extremely sickly child ... Cant imagine why

I grew up in the 60's and our mum used to cut an orange in half, poke her finger in the middle and shove in a sugar cube and we used to suck on that for ages - it was a great treat!

We used to have that as well, sprinkled with salt! it was lovely. These days I only eat the jelly at the bottom though, and I skip the salt as I've got HBP.

Crispy Duck is also good.

My dad's cousin, who is, oh 90 this year, makes his own lard. The guy is stick thin and still fit enough to be doing work for his town council. Last time I was in Canada, I went looking for him at his house and he wasn't home. He was out installing snow fences on the edge of the village (population 142).

Lard...well, not my favorite, but I'd take it over the franken oils on the market these days. Hands down.

It's the very reason I use butter instead of some of these processed spreads. We don't have a lot of it so I would rather use the real stuff.

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