I have just had the most delicious snack

I loved crisps with vinegar poured over then shaken, this was in the days when the only crisps were plain, you removed the salt packet first.
I used to have icing sugar sandwiches and of course dripping and bread and crisp sandwiches, maybe that's why Im overweight now,my granny was 18 stone and my mother only slightly less.

broom not boom

And they didn't flog themselves to death doing any particular 'exercise'. Apart from sweeping up with boom and dustpan and brush, and doing the washing by hand.

Makes you wonder, doesn't it?

That was to jings

And thickly spread with "tub butter" from the coop.
Suet puddings, fatty beef and mutton. My mum lived to 101 no dieting or cutting things out for her.

thatbags I used to make one big one but then graduated on to single small ones.

However my Mum used to do hers round the roast. Joint of beef usually and the pudding poured round it. I thought that was the up north way! And mushy peas with it!

(And it was white bread)

I was talking diet and longevity with DD recently. I said, "Well, my granny lived till she was ninety three". DD pointed out that they didn't have all the nice but naughty stuff to eat in those days. I in turn, pointed out that bread and lard with sugar on it, and bread and dripping, played a large part in Granny's diet!

Not from childhood, but something I discovered in adulthood - hot white rice with golden syrup stirred through it is delicious.

Can you see why I daren't have a tin of golden syrup in the house these days?

Annsixty I remember "pobs"- warm milk, bread and sugar. Whenever we were "poorly" we had pobs and lucozade. Gagagran I enjoy a cheese and onion crisp butty too

Condensed milk - something else I could eat by the spoonful from the tin. Sophisticated tastes, me. I've just remembered being careful to avoid the jagged edges. We must have had one of those old-fashioned stab-in tin openers - it's amazing really that we all grew up with a full set of fingers.

Tablet strikes again, ill !!

My dad used to give us condensed milk sarnies ? I haven't had one for years

You have reminded me of bread and milk which was called "pobs" it was revolting and was given if you were I'll. I refused it on the grounds that if I wasn't nauseous before I would be after.
On Monday lunch I had toast and pork dripping after cooking roast pork on Sunday.
Lots of salt, it was delicious.

My mum used to eat what she called Manchester Sandwiches - cheese and apricot jam.

She also loved bread and milk.

I don't like either of the above but I like plain yogurt with blackcurrant jam.

Might try some with golden syrup though...

My treat yesterday was a Cadbury's creme egg. It and some coffee hit the spot late afternoon after a busy day (I know it was cos I woke up with backache today ? )

People lived in houses where there was Yorkshire pudding left over!

Gosh.

Do yous all make those diddy ones, or proper plate-sized, one for each person, served on their own with some proper meat gravy (no browning added or needed if you make gravy the proper way).

I'm dead proper, me . Yorkshire pud the Yorkshire way.

Oop North the noo, born dahn Sarf !

Indinana just weird . But then, in this family we sing 'Sausages, sausages, barely even human,' when they are served up - a play on the song 'Savages' from Disney's Pocahontas!

Oh jingl, I am reliving my youth On days that Mum did mince and Yorkshire puddings she would save a couple to have for dessert with golden syrup, mouth watering.

Yorkshire pudding with warm golden syrup is lovely.

A treat we had, not often so even better, was a sandwich filled with jam and whipped cream ... yum..
Also had the sugar sandwich, and still enjoy a crisp sarnie every now and again.
My eldest son used to love Yorkshire puds with butter and sugar, had to make extra just for that lol.

Sugar sprinkled on bread! Does anyone remember singing the alphabet - when we got to z, we used to chant (not sing, this bit was monotonic):

zed, zed, sugar on your bread
if you don't like it you'll have to go to bed
wake up in the morning and have a cup of tea
then you can start your (here we began singing again) A - B - C etc.

Does anyone else remember this, or was it just our weird household?

I regularly used to eat a banana mashed up with a slice of bread and butter, milk and sugar, all mushed up. We called it banana mush.

And we had bread and dripping. Delicious. With salt on too! Food is really about memories isn't it?