Daft Things Your Parents Said

[addicted]

If asked what's for dinner? my mother would always respond "shimshams and lardi  dars or else" air pie and windy pudding, followed by a soup sandwich and  a corned beef doughnut.

 

 

Carole

[DAVIDH]

When I asked MY mum what's for tea she would say "sh*t with sugar on"

Always went off to play outside a little longer - no rush for tea.

 

David

[Vaughan]

2 hours ago, Bound2Please said:

I still have my ration book some where

So have I! It dates from the time of the Suez crisis, since rationing continued from the war, until the end of Suez, and the re-opening of the canal.

My mother used to keep 200 chickens in the woods on the island in Thorpe and had a licence to sell the eggs and the birds to the Ministry of "AG and Fish". They were much appreciated in those days.

I suppose we were very lucky, looking back. There was one and a half acres of ground on the island and my parents grew everything that we needed. Father shot pheasants, duck, partridge and hare, so the only essentials we had to buy were milk, butter, bread, sugar, and that sort of thing.

There was a local club which father subscribed to - and I suppose was illegal - where the members gathered in the Thorpe Gardens pub once a month and a local farmer arrived with half a pig, cut in half longways. This was laid out on a table in the boathouse - then the HQ of the Frostbites sailing club - and cut up into portions for the members to take home. A special Sunday lunch once a month!

[addicted]

my father was notoriously picky with  food and my maternal nan  never got over the time when knowing he was due home on leave  from the R.A.F and hearing  it was available she queued for 4 hours for some smoked haddock especially for his welcome home meal. Sitting down to eat he saw my mother had something different and much more mundane and immediately asked if she would swop dinners with him. He wasn't being gallant he preferred her meal to his. My nan talked of this incident for years.

 

 

Carole

[thingamybob]

I was going to put some humorous things on this thread but out of respect for the people who have died and been injured I will give it a few days.  

[TheQ]

My Dad as a child / young teenager, was sent down from Aldershot to my Grandparents quite regularly during WW2, and came back regularly carying a portion of pork.  As those grandparents kept Pigs....

[Regulo]

On 22/03/2017 at 9:09 AM, MauriceMynah said:

Ha !!! I bet you meant to say "She was right"   

Yep, sure did! I was in a rush, as usual..