do you remember a time when it was a better place to live

[opmania]

I remember when news agents had a stand out the front

with Papers under a rock

You took a Paper and left the money on the stand

Now days they would steal the money,the papers and the stand

and throw the rock through the window as they were running away

[raptor_rebooted]

http://splash.abc.net.au/home#!/media/1186674/devon-polony-stras-or-fritz-

[serendipityricho]

Stawka--taking polony sandwiches to state school-----was a bit

hard to swap for a something more eatable............................Richo.

[j*oono]

It's delightful isn't it Richo.  You can almost taste the ground up bone in it.

[imastawka]

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@*julia*2010 wrote:

http://splash.abc.net.au/home#!/media/1186674/devon-polony-stras-or-fritz-

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 But, but.....stras has fatty bits,  and unrecognisable different coloured  bits

   

[azureline**]

I have no idea where the Fish Friday began but Catholics were not allowed to eat meat on Fidays until sometime in the last ?40 years, when it changed and we were permitted to..... but not during lent.

It's a penance thing.

As a child, we always had fish, mostly prepared at home, on Fridays.

As an adult, I never ate meat on Friday, still don't. I was amused when I was eating at my future inlaws and they ate fish on Fridays and especially Good Friday..... to discover that they had no idea why this tradition began in their family. They thought it was an Anglican thing.

The truth was, my OH's Granny was a staunch Catholic.

[cherry*135]

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@j*oono wrote:

In WA, this is polony

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We called that either Belgium or luncheon sausage (sliced with the bit of red plastic still on the edge) in NZ, depending on which part of NZ you came from.

Foul stuff.

Also a smaller plastic covered unsliced roll called Skegg (brand name).

[cherry*135]

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@imastawka wrote:

And fish and chips on a Friday?    That's a Catholic thing.

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Probably discussed before now, but we had F&C on Friday... not Catholics.. 

We had to travel to nearest town, so bought takeways on the way home, too late to cook dinner.

It is more an end of week thing, can't be stuffed cooking dinner... 

[lionrose.7]

luncheon sausage North island Nz, needs lots of Tomato Sauce to kill the taste.

I hated it my children liked it

[cherry*135]

Yes, learnt not to mention Belgium (sausage) in Nth Is, they laugh at you.

We had plenty of meat, grew up on a sheep farm. Mum was the chook killer.

She still bought 'luncheon/Belgium' though, and that skegg roll (which I think was even worse.. looked more fatty & gristly)

[ten*teeny*tiny*toes]

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@*julia*2010 wrote:

http://splash.abc.net.au/home#!/media/1186674/devon-polony-stras-or-fritz-

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Loved the little boy's answer. It's circle meat 

Got me thinking... It's much the same with bathers, swimmers, cossie.