Re: OT - why does everyone

Whiskers <catwheezel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Whiskers <catwheezel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[snip]

it being the Norman-French for
'sheep' indicates that the Norman nobs were pretty keen on it and wouldn't
let the plebs get in first. Lovely stuff, mutton.

Oh yes - but I've rarely eaten it. My mother never cooked it for some
reason.

You missed out. We got lots of mutton, because it was cheaper than beef.

It wasn't a meat that I heard of anyone I knew eating. Strange, that.
What happened, I wonder? It wasn't like my mother would shy away from
economical cooking. Always good solid food for growing lads, mind. If
only I knew the secret of her roast potatoes... Or even the bloody
flapjacks, that'd do me.

Chicken was a once-a-year special treat, in those days, but everyone
seemed to get pork, beef, or mutton, pretty routinely.

We didn't get a lot of chicken either - but mostly because my dad didn't
eat poultry at all (long story involving pet chicken and Sunday lunch)
and my mother wasn't keen on battery farmed chickens anyway.

Christmas involved a huge turkey and an unfeasibly large chunk of dead
pig which had to be cooked outdoors in a large stainless steel tub, plus
enough other stuff to feed a Bangladeshi family for at least a month.
There was always enough hungry mouths to demolish the lot. If I ate
like that these days, I'd be the size of the Hindenberg.

Rowland.


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