Chrismas Food Thats Declined Over The Years?

andyt87

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Glamorgan
I remember my grandparents always having a bottle of Sheridans at Christmas, the one with 2 different liqueurs.... Blew my mind at the time!
 
The Canadian French saga is a totally bizarare. They can be born in Canada the same as their parents and grandparents but still say they are from France and that’s their home Which they have never even visited let alone lived there.

Upon our return home and passing through the airport we had a male escort ( no, not one of those escorts ) to assist with my wife's wheel chair and we chatted as we took shortcuts through and around the warren of passages.

The gent pushing my wife's wheel chair was stocky and firmly built and I said that of course he was French. No says our escort. Ah ha, so you are Canadian then? With a proud stance he looked me in the eye and said
'I am Blackfoot' and I eventually found out why the tribe was called 'Blackfoot'.

Initially I had thought that our journey was going to be like travelling through North Wales and folk would switch from one language to the other and back, as required. Silly me!!! :rolleyes:
 

Farmer Roy

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Arable Farmer
Location
NSW, Newstralya
Hahaha - what is it with you Brits & adding sugar to everything ?
sugared almonds, sugar mice, sugared figs ?
Although, maybe Stilton could be sugared, that might make it more appealing to those palates that aren’t quite developed ? 🤣

if there was ever a lovely flavoursome fruit, it is figs - can’t begin to imagine why they would need sugar 🤷‍♂️
 

wrenbird

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Livestock Farmer
Location
HR2
Hahaha - what is it with you Brits & adding sugar to everything ?
sugared almonds, sugar mice, sugared figs ?
Although, maybe Stilton could be sugared, that might make it more appealing to those palates that aren’t quite developed ? 🤣

if there was ever a lovely flavoursome fruit, it is figs - can’t begin to imagine why they would need sugar 🤷‍♂️
I don’t know, but the fact that wartime rationing didn’t end until the 1950s in this country might have something to do with it. Unlike today when you can stuff your face with whatever you want whenever you want, these things were treats that you didn’t have any other time, this would of persisted right into the 1970s/1980s.
 
Hahaha - what is it with you Brits & adding sugar to everything ?
sugared almonds, sugar mice, sugared figs ?
Although, maybe Stilton could be sugared, that might make it more appealing to those palates that aren’t quite developed ? 🤣

if there was ever a lovely flavoursome fruit, it is figs - can’t begin to imagine why they would need sugar 🤷‍♂️

Fresh figs off the tree, now you are talking; you don't even need teeth!
 

TheTallGuy

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Location
Cambridgeshire
Not food but does anyone remember indoor fireworks especially the man who used to puff away on a cigarette
Yep, we always had a post dinner exhibition of indoor fireworks, with the "elephant poo" being the most favoured. A few years back we saw some in a novelty shop & decided to see what they were like now... definitely not as exciting as we remembered!
 

steveR

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Mixed Farmer
Yep, we always had a post dinner exhibition of indoor fireworks, with the "elephant poo" being the most favoured. A few years back we saw some in a novelty shop & decided to see what they were like now... definitely not as exciting as we remembered!
Cooo, I remember those.....just about.

These days. every smoke alarm in the house would go off?
 

Hindsight

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Location
Lincolnshire
Fresh figs off the tree, now you are talking; you don't even need teeth!

On that point - false teeth and Steradent. Not a Xmas food, I appreciate, but I can recall in my childhood many of the older folk had false teeth.

Figs brilliant. We have a Fig in the garden and there is one on the south facing wall of an old cottage in the village - when it was sold recently the new young owners had no idea of the fruit until my wife started scrumping!
 
On that point - false teeth and Steradent. Not a Xmas food, I appreciate, but I can recall in my childhood many of the older folk had false teeth.

Figs brilliant. We have a Fig in the garden and there is one on the south facing wall of an old cottage in the village - when it was sold recently the new young owners had no idea of the fruit until my wife started scrumping!

Way back in the early seventies I was introduced to fresh figs at the local market in Izmit Turkey and from then on was deeply in love with the juicy and succulent flesh of the fresh fig.

Upon retuning home after a seven month secondment I eventually planted a fig twig into a root restricting tub and placed it in our south facing back garden. Over the following years the twig grew into a bush and eventually a tree but the tub kept it from over growing the area.

Every year our fig tree produced an abundance of fruits and our daughter, who loved fresh figs, would turn up every year to harvest in a goodly supply of fruit. Interestingly, the fig is often spoken of in religious literature but I was impressed by the tree not being showy in producing vast spectacular flowers but no flowers (as such) at all.

When I very first saw the purple skinned figs in Turkey I thought that they were flogging tulip bulbs but eventually was persuaded to try one. As for the leeches on sale in old jam jars, I declined a trial! :eek:
 

Fendt516profi

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Yorkshire
I'm sure Quality Street used to be almost a tenner 25yrs ago, when the tins were probably like a bucket, but I can't remember the weight. In Iceland, etc, this year the plastic tubs which look perhaps just under half the size, were £4.50 for about 650g.
With the prevailing shrinkage in pack sizes in other chocolate bars, and increasing prices, I'm not sure Quality Street have actually gone up much over time
Not quite quality streets
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The tin has a best before date of 2004
 

Vorest Tat

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Livestock Farmer
Hahaha - what is it with you Brits & adding sugar to everything ?
sugared almonds, sugar mice, sugared figs ?
Although, maybe Stilton could be sugared, that might make it more appealing to those palates that aren’t quite developed ? 🤣

if there was ever a lovely flavoursome fruit, it is figs - can’t begin to imagine why they would need sugar 🤷‍♂️
Have you tried eating a mouse without sugar?? 🤣🤣
 
Location
East Mids
Sugared mice were in our stocking (never a pillowcase), along with (in the toe) a tangerine, a Cox's apple and a handful of nuts in their shells, plus a few small toys. Allowed to open them when we woke up, all other presents were for after church and breakfast. As kids we were allowed 'fingerdips' of adults' sherry, but on one famous occasion....

.... with 6 young kids, Mum had resorted to paper plates, napkins etc for Christmas lunch, with a Winnie the Poo theme. Some of us were allowed a little cheap cider.

I was about 5 and had about 1/2" in my paper Poo cup. By the end of the meal it was not Winnie the Poo but Pooie the Win.

A family expression now for someone who has had too much lemonade (or cider :ROFLMAO: ).
 

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