As we are caravanning I've no access to toys so other things are filling my mind ... Such as Beef Paste this morning for breakfast!
I saw it in Farmfoods and thought yes! I remember, I used to love beef paste butties as a kid. My Mum made them with thick white bread and butter, altho' it may have been marg - Stork?
Did you eat beef spread butties readers?
Beef paste or spread is basically potted beef of old sold in little handy pocket-sized glass jars. As a kid the biggest brand was Shippams. There was always a thin layer of hardened fat on top. That stuffs delicious!
They did chicken paste as well, which was equally fabtasticle.
My late Grandad, old Jack the postie, liked his beef dripping. Now I don't remember it exactly but I imagine a combination of beef and fat is essentially the same as beef paste or spread. Can anyone confirm this?
Even more nostalgic and the nub of a few jokes is the next spread on my Farmfoods shopping list, Sardine and Tomato paste!
C'mon Mum, slap it on!
Sutherlands spreads were the best! Chicken, chicken and ham, beef, sardine and tomato, bloater, ham, and a horde of other flavours. Crab was my favorite (and still is, although its only about 20% crab now, either as supermarket own brand or Princes).
ReplyDeleteSutherlands! Yes! I'd forgotten about them! And Crab paste! Brilliant but what's the other 80%?
DeleteI remember a Shippam's Paste competition centred around Mattel's Major Matt Mason. You had to plot a rescue course across the moon's surface, using Matt's various vehicles and equipment. My Father took an interest my entry and insisted upon a choice I knew to be wrong.
ReplyDeleteOf course, I never won.
Most intriguing was an illustration on the entry form, featuring a helmet clad astronaut sitting in the Space Station control room. He had a blue space suit.
It would be many years before I actually got to possess a Jeff Long spaceman!
Do any Moonbasers remember that competition, or have any pictures of the entry form?
Don't know it Looey but here it is on John Eaton's Major Matt Mason blog. Is this it? https://majormattmason.blogspot.com/p/shippams-spreadables-ad.html?m=1
DeleteI think the Loch Maree Hotel had some bad duck paste (1922).
ReplyDeleteUnderwood Deviled Ham was my only experience.
Hmmm. Don't know the bad duck case Anon. And what's devilled ham?
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