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From: "Elizabeth Angela Guyver" <>
Subject: Re: [WarBrides] Strange foods
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 10:01:07 +0100
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I was made to eat a slice of bread and butter with all fruit by my
grandfather - think that is an English custom like bread and butter with
fish and chips.

Take Care

Beth
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Subject: Re: [WarBrides] Strange foods


> we always had squeezed oranges with our pancakes and sugar..lovely
> taste...also peaches with bread and butter..still to this day can't eat
> peaches without bread and butter....thanks mum for your lovely english
> traditions...Diane daughter of the late Mrs Jean Tyson (war bride 1944)
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> From: "Joan Reichardt" <>
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> Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 1:31 PM
> Subject: [WarBrides] Strange foods
>
>
>> This is great fun! My first encounter with a bran muffin was not
> positive. I had arrived in Saskatoon the night before, we had stayed at
> the
> Bessborough and now my first meeting with the in-laws. Tea was served and
> on the plate of 'goodies' were home made cookies (unlike the biscuits I
> knew) and what I took to be a small cake. So I took one and bit into it
> without putting butter on it. It was so dry I nearly choked as I tried to
> swallow it. Corn was another unfamiliar item and people served the tinned
> cream corn with crushed up crackers and (I think) extra milk, called it
> scalloped corn - it was revolting as were creamed peas - tinned peas
> swimming in white sauce. I have made pumpkin pie for all these years but
> have never eaten it - one taste was enough. And then there is cranberry
> sauce - jam on my turkey? I don't think so. I do enjoy corn on the cob
> though not any other corn, don't eat peanut butter and still like my
> pancakes with lemon juice and sugar - and occa!
>> sionally say 'to hell with cholesterol' and have egg and chips!
>> One other surprise was canned chicken in jars, served cold with jelly
> around it - could be very good - or not. I stopped eating that after I
> attended a picnic where one lot was tainted and a little girl nearly died!
> I also remember laughing at the 'Fowl Suppers" I thought they were saying
> 'foul'!
>> Joan Reichardt
>>
>>
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