Lyles Golden Syrup

CanadianGran

And I always thought he was just sleeping... never-mind the swarm of bugs around him!

These are the bees that made the honey in the carcass of the lion (that Sampson killed with his bare hands).
I think the previous verse is something along the lines of "out of the eater comes meat".

There’s a super cool coffee shop that we used to go to pre covid that uses old Golden Syrup tins to keep sugar cubes in. I had to buy a tin so I could have one in my kitchen.

Growing up on a farm with Channel Island cows, we always had plenty of clotted cream made by Mum. Bread spread with golden syrup and topped with clotted cream was a regular snack. Never had butter as well, and never heard it called thunder and lightening though. Perhaps I come from a different part of Cornwall than a pp.

annsixty

Seeing the pancake suggestion reminds me that as a child we had it on the left over Yorkshire puddings.

My grown up D and S still enjoy Golden syrup on left over Yorkies.

Fishpieplease, we used to do the same with the empty tins, no need for fancy toys in the 50's! I always have a tin of syrup in the cupboard for biscuits and cake recipes, and when the children were at home many moons ago, our family favourite was spotted dick, steamed in a cloth and served with custard and golden syrup. Just thinking of it makes my mouth water!

MrsMopp There IS a dead lion on the squeezy bottle. I have been to the cupboard to find the Golden Syrup and prove it.

In my childhood, one use of the empty tin was as a watering can substitute. Dad would punch a lot of holes in it and use it to dip water out of a bucket and hold it over the plants to drip.

You can also make a pair of telephones by punching one hole in the base of each of two tins and joining them with a length of string several yards long (push the end through the hole into the tin and tie a knot in it, repeat with the other end.). If the string is held taut, a child speaking quietly into one tin can be heard plainly by another child some distance away with the other tin held to his/her ear.

Oh my goodness, I remember spooning it onto a steamed spotted dick. Also, cooked at the bottom of the bowl with the mixture one top for an ordinary steamed pudding, which was reversed onto a plate when cooked, the syrup was thick on the top and then custard poured over it.

Best invention for golden syrup is the squeezy bottle. The lid never gets stuck, no black edges on the tin, syrup goes exactly where you want it.
I miss licking the spoon though.

I always have golden syrup in the cupboard. Best childhood sandwich was a toffee apple sandwich....thinly sliced eating apple,covered in golden syrup. I could never manage the Cornish favourite which was Thunder and Lightning....bread and butter with golden syrup and,wait for it,clotted cream. When the extra large tins were empty,Dad drilled 2 holes in the edge,attached string and that was our stilts! I’m more restrained now,but always add a spoonful of syrup when stewing fruit.

A squeeze bottle, did someone mention? What sacrilege !
And I bet there was no dead lion on there either!
What is the country coming to.........

Elegran and Grandetante - thanks for clearing that up. It was niggling at the back of my mind. so poetic
.My Gran used to make perfect yorkshires with syrup for pudding. I think that started with food rationing as there was a severe shortage of sugar.

You can imagine how much we had: my mum worked in the factory ?
The Canning Town one.

For me it has to be Lyle's supermarket own brand syrup just isn't the same on porridge.

I love golden syrup on bread, but it has to be real butter first.

Also on breakfast porage in winter.

Our DS2 used to have a syrup sandwich with cheese, for Sunday tea, which DSIL has now adopted as a favourite.

I like it on 'eggy bread'. Will have to run out and get some mmmmm.....

I am pretty sure there is a tin in my cupboard. It has been. There a long time, so I am not sure what it will be like now.
I loved it as a child, on bread and butter, or on porridge.

It’s available in all the supermarkets here in the UK. I use it a lot making Peanuts triangles, ginger cake, sticky toffee pudding etc.

I bought some last week, it comes in a squeezy bottle now, much easier.

I detested the stuff as a child and my mother always had some in the pantry cupboard. My brother loved it especially on pancakes and he would always have our mother making pancakes and spoon dollops of it over them. Mum used to tell me off because I would never eat mine.

I love it on bread, but it has to be eaten straight away, or it goes sugary and not as nice.

My Aunty used to wind my cousin's dummy in golden syrup , he would sit like a baby bird wide mouthed waiting for the oozy treat . He has false teeth now !

The connection between the lion, the bees and honey can be cleared up by looking up chapter 14 of the Book of Judges in the Old Testament.

Samson killed a lion, left the poor thing lying, and came back later to find bees nesting in the carcase and honey galore. (my paraphrase The King James' Bible puts it rather better),

As a child I was traumatised by that damn tin !,?

Oh no - I always thought that he was asleep too, must be right 'cos my mum reassured me?
Mr.I has just had a good laugh at my expense.

Just spotted your cake Witzend. I wonder if it is the same cake I mentioned in my comment. It's one of our favourites.