A bath after food? Or that you shouldn’t swim after a meal

M0nica

No one knows where the phrase 'all my eye and Betty Martin originated, but the suggestion is that it is the English mispronunciation of an Italian phrase.

Rather like the phrase, more or less gone out of use, San fairy Ann, to mean a something doesn't matter. Said to date back to WW1 and an anglecisation of the French phrase 'Ca ne fait rien'

The film was good, filmed partly in my local area.

*Crossstitchfan", way back in the 40s when I was around 7, I had a roaring temperature with measles, 104+, and the doctor told my mother to plunge me in a tepid bath. It must've worked, I'm 85 now!

Coincidentally there is a story in the news today about a teenager who sadly died while swimming straight after a meal.

primrose I read that too.
I stayed with a French family when I was 15 and one of their friends died while swimming after eating a big lunch. I remember going to her funeral mass.

Redcar

primrose I read that too.
I stayed with a French family when I was 15 and one of their friends died while swimming after eating a big lunch. I remember going to her funeral mass.

I was brought up on the coast and we were always swimming. My Mum always made me wait for a good hour after our food before we were allowed back in. Most of my friends were the same.

A girl died recently in the sea near Cleethorpes pier after eating 'a substantial lunch of pizza and chips', in June 23. Her mother warned her not to go swimming until her food settled but she ignored her, got into difficulties and was swept out to sea and died from inhaling her own vomit.(DT 2.8.25.)
So not such an old wives tale after all. Tragic.

SueDonim

I had to have a bath, or rather a shower, last night after I dropped my entire bowl of strawberries and cream into my lap!

What a Waste - Ian Drury

(blame DH who suggested this when I read your post to him!)

As a child, it was drummed into me never, ever swim for less than 2 hours after a meal.
Never done it since..l