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

[opmania]

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@wilk1149 wrote:
Haven't you noticed I use that word in every post. It's kind if like where's Wally. See if you can spot it in this post

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lol

[lind9650]

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@vicr3000 wrote:

"That's a Catholic thing."

Since when ?

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Since catholics wrote the catechism for all believer to live by. Hundreds of years ago they told the people they could not eat meat on a Friday because Christ died on Friday.

LOL, funny how customs are taken over from generation to generation. I am not catholic, but the idea of fish on friday never made sense to me. After all fish is another animal God created and it bleeds when killed, the same as any other animal.

But the friday Fish and Chips appealed to a lot of mothers. One day rest from cooking.

Erica

[imastawka]

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@opmania wrote:

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@vicr3000 wrote:

"That's a Catholic thing."

Since when ?

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we are not catholic and we had them

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 Let me refine that answer then.

It was mostly a Catholic thing - no meat on Fridays - hence the fish bit.

Big deal, we didn't get that much meat anyway

We couldn't afford fish and chips, so mum made curried eggs -

every bluddy Friday!    I hate curried eggs to this day

Peck's paste,  curried eggs, mouldy bread,  toast and lard

selling newspapers to the fish and chip shop, yeah remember that one

Gee,  some great childhood memories there.

Let's see the name of the thread again?

Do you remember a time when it was a better place to live?

Answer is still nope

[vicr3000]

Stawka

Got the Fish and Chips on Friday now, thanks.

Toast and lard was a staple diet of the UK during the war (Grand mother and my mother often mentioned it)

as well as "we didn't get that much meat anyway".

[lurker172602]

I remember when eating chicken was a luxury.  I suppose because it wasn't all prepared and packaged in the freezer at the supermarket. You raised and then killed them yourself, after you'd had the eggs of course.

I remember mum being horrified that dad had let us watch him chopping their heads off.  I suppose she thought we'd be traumatised, but my sister and I thought it was the funniest thing ever when they kept running about 

[lionrose.7]

OMG I am traumatised even thinking about it.

I laugh at the halal thing, farmers have been cutting sheeps throats for years to eat them.

[polksaladallie]

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@lurker172602 wrote:

I remember when eating chicken was a luxury.  I suppose because it wasn't all prepared and packaged in the freezer at the supermarket. You raised and then killed them yourself, after you'd had the eggs of course.

I remember mum being horrified that dad had let us watch him chopping their heads off.  I suppose she thought we'd be traumatised, but my sister and I thought it was the funniest thing ever when they kept running about 

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Chicken was a luxury, we had it for christmas dinner only.  Like your family,  we bought it live, and killed it and spent hours plucking out the feathers.

Does anyone remember when meat was only bought from the butcher, was never in the supermarkets?

[lal-au0]

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@wilk1149 wrote:
Fritz (whole name Bung Fritz) is what the Germans called a large round sausage that would be boiled, then sliced and served with sauerkraut. Most aussies slice it and eat it on white bread with tomato sauce

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nonsense. sorry. in germany fritz is called fleischwurst and eaten sliced on a piece of buttered bread.

btw: what is called a "german" hotdog (hot dog with sauerkraut) does not exist in germany. i think it's a US american invention. 

sauerkraut is eaten with mashed potatoes and kassler, bratwurst or haxe.

[i-need-a-martini]

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@lal-au0 wrote:

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@wilk1149 wrote:
Fritz (whole name Bung Fritz) is what the Germans called a large round sausage that would be boiled, then sliced and served with sauerkraut. Most aussies slice it and eat it on white bread with tomato sauce

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nonsense. sorry. in germany fritz is called fleischwurst and eaten sliced on a piece of buttered bread.

btw: what is called a "german" hotdog (hot dog with sauerkraut) does not exist in germany. i think it's a US american invention. 

sauerkraut is eaten with mashed potatoes and kassler, bratwurst or haxe.

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I think you are right.

My understanding is that Bung Fritz is an Australian name for what we now call Devon (changed during the war) and Devon is definitely sliced up.

[i-need-a-martini]

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@lal-au0 wrote:

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@wilk1149 wrote:
Fritz (whole name Bung Fritz) is what the Germans called a large round sausage that would be boiled, then sliced and served with sauerkraut. Most aussies slice it and eat it on white bread with tomato sauce

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nonsense. sorry. in germany fritz is called fleischwurst and eaten sliced on a piece of buttered bread.

btw: what is called a "german" hotdog (hot dog with sauerkraut) does not exist in germany. i think it's a US american invention. 

sauerkraut is eaten with mashed potatoes and kassler, bratwurst or haxe.

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The americans call it Baloney.