I knew a lot of the foods we got a kids were definitely boring... that list (not mind Richo) missed out on green beans, so easy to grow.

I do remember that when my father bought home a particularly strong cheese a few days later it 'came to life'.  

The bag was hopping but my mother wouldn't show me what was hopping.. have wondered ever since. 😞

Hey Darki......don't forget that staple for the family table.....chocko......everyone had it growing over the dunny or back fence.

and the passionfruit vine in the chook yard

my neighbour gave me a choko that had 'shot'...I planted it and then forgot to water it so it carkedX-(

I had forgotten choko.. terrible stuff to peel.

Wish I could grow a passionfruit down here.. like citrus, it refuses.

Do you remember your mothers having to order a chook for Christmas from the butcher a couple of months before?  I can't remember turkeys.

no  ordering chooks for Mum.   Pop used to catch one, chop it's head off, hang it by it's feet on the clothesline to 'bleed' for a while, then mum would boil the kettle pour it over the chook and pull the feathers off.   Then came the good part....she''d proceed to disembowel it, while heaving all the time...

In hindsight, would have been a lot easier all round to buy one from the butcher;\

Please give me your thoughts on my thread....Childrens Christmas Presents?

Hahhaa  oh dear your poor mother gil, bet your father insisted on it.

Okay I'll go and see what your thread is about xx

thanks for your comments darki♥

speaking about beans.

My youngest daughter only told me quite a few years later that she hated beans and used to stuff them in her underpants at the dinner table....little bugga!:^O