General Chat

You tried getting on to the Suttons website?

Interesting to see that many of us were in tune with the seasons and what we could find available to eat.
This wasn't so much a need for food, rather an awareness of what was free to eat.

I came from a family, where the garden had to provide food for us. I wonder if recent food shortages will create more back yard gardeners.

Don't think I had enjoyed them but it was something to do.

I wasn't too ken on elderberries - but my gran made a lovely wine with them.

I had prickly pear fruit in Norwich. There's exotic.

I can remember throwing up, having been pigging elderberries and my mother thought I might have had a stomach haemorrhage.

They are rather delicious! :-D

Maggie, when we lived in Leonora, north of Kalgoorlie our son was friends with an Aboriginal boy who was in the same class at primary school.

One Saturday or Sunday he went 'bush' with the lad's family and apparently took a very gluttonous liking to prickly pears.

Judging by the amount he vomited back up a few hours later I would say that he had devoured almost an acres worth :-D :-D

Fortunately the resultant mess was easily cleaned up and had no offensive smell.

When we lived in Malta, as a toddler, I used to eat the 'prickly pears' that grew on cacti.
I would pick and peel them myself - I soon learned how to do it without pricking myself :-D

I ate bread and cheese off the hedge.

Yes Gwen
We called it bread and cheese :-D :-D

Ummm - no Gwyn :-D :-D :-D

MotownGal - in the 'good old days' it actually contained alcohol! :-S :-S

Gripe water! Don't ask me why. One spoon for the kiddlies, and one for me. :-D :-D

Did anyone eat hawthorn leaves, as a child?

I was thinking about this earlier this week, when I saw all the fresh green growth on local trees.
Why did we call it 'bread and cheese?

This was near south coast Hampshire

:-D :-D :-D :-D

Mine just at the veggies straight from the garden!
Oh - and the eldest ate gladioli flowers - once.
I re-directed her to the Marigolds and Nasturtiums. :-D

Maggie he was over 11lb when he was born
and is still big now

I tried everything when he was little
even payment per mouthful

But no he hates them :-D

Joy - just imagine how big he would have been if he HAD eaten his vegetables! :-0

Andysmum - my children didn't like Farley's rusks either, so not only do I have to confess to eating them (with hot milk & sugar) well into my teens, I also ate them when my children were young!
You know, buy the 'odd' packet 'just in case' they like them now - their taste might have changed in a week. :-D

I hated Farley's rusks, but I did like the Ovaltine ones!

Elder son loved fruit and most veggies, suitably mashed up, until we went to West Africa when he was 18 months old. Soft fruit (strawberries, plums, apple etc.) were unavailable and he lived on banana and oranges and a limited choice of veg. As a result, when we returned to the UK he wouldn't eat anything "new". I can't remember how I solved the problem, but he now eats nearly everything!!

He is over 6 feet tall Sharron

and he hasn't had fruit either :-D :-D

He won't thrive

My son has never eaten a vegetable in his life
apart from Potatoes

He is 42 now :-( :-(