When I was a spotty schoolboy in the Sixties I would come home from school [or skoo] on a Friday and celebrate with a large jam butty and a huge glass of milk.
The butty would be made from Mother's Pride, the very whitest and softest of bread, stork margarine or Lurpak butter and a thick filling of Robinsons strawberry jam with whole strawberries in it. On biting into it the jam would squeeze out from the sides of the butty and go all over my hands. I used to love licking the sticky stuff off my fingers like a dog!
The milk was full cream from the Milk man, a pint bottle in the fridge and poured into a tall hi-ball glass. If I was feeling posh I might have had a straw but mostly I liked to gulp it down in as few gulps as possible. I would finish with a dramatic 'aaaaaaa' and wipe the milk-tash from my face with the back of my arm as if I'd just done a 15 hour shift down the pit!
Heaven!
Nowadays its a much less interesting affair, a strong cup of Yorkshire tea and a Mars Bar from Aldi called Mister Choc.
What did you have have when you got home from school readers?
I used to try to make the sort of sandwiches that Scooby Doo ate! Slice of bread, lettuce, mayo, cheese, another slice of bread, tomato, ham , chicken and a final slice of bread. It used to ooze out as I bit into it.
ReplyDeleteWhat a good idea Yorkie! I may have tried it too, the ultimate club sandwich! I could never hold it properly! I was always amazed that they never brought out a foodstuff called Scooby Snacks. Cereal maybe? It would have had perfect advertising from the cartoon.
DeleteA packet of Walkers cheese and onion crisps and I was ready to settle down for Jackanory.
ReplyDeleteMmm, crisps...or crips as they were universally known as in Preston [ like chips...they became chipes or chipers]. Not sure I ate Walkers then. More likely one of those Salt and Shake bags. Just can't remember any brands or how the salt was packaged! Doh! I'm going senile.
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