tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1849067128981431752.post3537539531542618125..comments2024-02-26T08:15:33.336+00:00Comments on Frugally challenged: Saturday night indulgenceFrugally challengedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10222391810215537820noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1849067128981431752.post-56081025328017108692017-09-11T05:29:14.794+01:002017-09-11T05:29:14.794+01:00I think that modern luxuries are home cooking - ho...I think that modern luxuries are home cooking - home made cakes and pies, cooked-from-scratch dishes. <br /><br />Yes, Christmas was definitely a time to be anticipated and savoured. <br /><br />I have to admit that I've never tried eating the whole prawn or shrimp. I think that the fact that we peeled them meant that it took a long time to eat the gill and the treat lasted longer.<br /><br />And no, we never had a muffin man. In fact I was an adult before I tried a muffin!Frugally challengedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10222391810215537820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1849067128981431752.post-67134421112431560952017-09-10T21:41:13.061+01:002017-09-10T21:41:13.061+01:00I was about 25 when I tasted a fresh pineapple - a...I was about 25 when I tasted a fresh pineapple - although we’d had tinned at Christmas - chunks with cheese on a cocktail stick. Horrid! Chicken was only at Christmas too (very little meat during the year; things like mince, rabbit and liver though)<br /><br />I was about the same age when I tried prawn cocktail. First eaten at the Ideal Home Exhibition when you used to get lots of free tastings. <br /><br />As a child, on Sunday afternoons, the cockle man would come round the streets (and don't laugh; but also the muffin man!) Now and then my dad would go out and get a gill of shrimps, measured by a tiny jug. Dad, who had starved as a child, ate them whole and told me off when I pulled off the head, tail and legs along with the crackly skin!<br /><br />I’ve not been allowed any seafood for 14 years now and the only thing I miss is crab and even that had come out of a tin. Never had fresh.<br /><br />Wonder what today’s luxuries are? Sadly, many people would just like some ‘food’.Lesneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10139947264337493961noreply@blogger.com