memory lane food

remember.......
Mammy's homemade soup one of the best soups you ever tasted. made wi' a ham haugh she got out of Healey's or the butchers. Boiled in a big pot with vegetables and secret ingredients added! Then came the fight for the ootsider! The plain loaf with the big thick slice! No need to wash the plates they were licked clean !!!
Dookin' yer piece intae the pot o' soup when yer mammy wisnae lookin'!
Mammy's homemade mince 'n tatties...also great for dookin' a piece into
Shouting for a "piece" tae be thrown oot the windae

GINGER....... all fizzy drinks are called 'ginger' in Glasgow, ask for a bottle of ginger in a shop, "whit kind?" Came the reply! Makers over the years have been, Barrs, Solripe, Connell's, Robertsons, Dunn & Moore, . Selection of flavours :-
American Cream Soda	Limeade	Orangeade	Irn Bru
Lemonade	Dark Cola	Light Cola	Pineapple
Soda Water	Kola	Iron Brew	Tizer
Vimto	Ginger Beer	Radiant Orange

Collecting empty "ginger" bottles for money

Making 'Shoogerollie Watter'.....leave liquerice in a bottle filled with water and put it in the lobby press ( high-up ) so as yer sister dis'nae get at it! Take it oot every day and shake it till all the shoorgerollie disolved. Lovely!

Piece 'n sausage with brown sauce	Piece 'n chips
Piece 'n butter and sugar	Piece 'n drippin
Bread and margarine sprinkled with sugar	Taking your piece to school
Making toast holding the bread up tae the coal fire.	Yer mammy's mince & tatties!
Mammy sending ye for 'well fired rolls'	Big slabs of butter at Healeys
The whelk man, or as we called him the ‘wulk man’ selling bags of whelks, the wee white pokes wi’ the pin 3d a bag
Carmel cake in the dinner school	A MacCallum ice cream wi' raspberry
Penny bags of broken cakes out of the bakers	A poke o' sweeties
Penny dainties (buttermilk dainty)	Black sambo chews and liquorices pipes
Tayto cheese & onion crisps	MB bars
Mojo's and blackjacks	halfpenny carmels
Lucky bags	Lucky potatoes - tasted like cinnamon
sweetie fags & liquorice pipes	Imperial gems - wee tiny coloured gums
Frozen jubblies	Cider & pear flavoured ice lollies
Ice lollies	Lees macaroon bars & snowballs
Empire biscuits	Fern Cakes
Sherbet dainties	Candy apples
Tablet and Nougat bars	Spangles
Homemade tablet at jumble sales	soor plooms, kola cubes & pineapple chunks
Swizzels & Love Hearts	Mint imperials & gobstoppers
Bovril & cream crackers	Bazooka Joe bubble gum
Crollas Ice Cream....simply the best	Ice cream drinks (ginger mixed with a dod o' Ice cream)
Fritters oot the chippie, 1 for a penny	Two shillings worth o' ice cream oot o' the 'tallies'
Sherbet lollies	Penny Ices
Sherbet, sherbet dips	Jap deserts
Striped candy balls	Penny whoppers
Apples, Oranges & Tangerines	Penny vantas
Eating in the school dinner hall
Putting vinegar in your crisp bag and the Smiths crisps with the wee blue bag of salt
Every bag of crisps seemed to have a 'green' crisp and you never knew whether to eat it or not!
The smell of boiled cabbage and mince up the closes on a Sunday afternoon
Running down to the fishmonger and asking for the fish to be dressed
Going with your mammy when she went to get the cans of dried milk and orange juice for the baby
Standing in the chip shop queue every Friday getting the family treat. Fish suppers, Pie 'n chips, Black Pudding, Hamburger, Big Pickles