Food Glorious Food
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HRH Self Appointed Lady Mayoress Of Armley
Recently on a trip to Poverty Aid, I happened upon the rather wonderful box of delights (pictured here). For a mere £1.00 I had bought trip aboard the memory train to childhood.
For me the 70’s were a dirge of orange, taupe, and brown, occaisionally enlivened by my attempts to wreck the kitchen. The constant background chuntering of Radio One DJs (Simon Bates, Jimmy Saville, Fluff Freeman) serenaded me as I cut my culinary teeth making pastry and biscuits and other starch laden goodies. Margueritte Pattens’ box of delights reminds me of the transition we went through in our house, when ‘continental food’ replaced goblin meat pies, and we threw parties with our neighbours where exotic Chinese, Italian and Indian dishes were created in the spirit of adventure not satisfaction.
The taste rarely mattered as these delights were accompanied by demijohns of homemade wine, which doubled as paint stripper. To this day these same themes are ever powerful, cheesy music, toxic drinks, cakes and biscuits, and breaking bread with the neighbours.
I have plans for these cards; think 70’s stylee Safari Suppers! Anyone care to join us?
PS - if you zoom in on the sausage rolls to the bottom the picture credit is the Lard Information Bureau (great name for a band if ever i heard one)
HRH Self Appointed Lady Mayoress Of Armley
June 27th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
Emma you lucky thing, even the two facing recipes look a delight and anything served in a hollowed out pineapple always has the thumbs up from me. Also thanks for ‘Safari Suppers’ I’ve been racking my brains for years trying to remember that expression. As for the Lard Information Bureau, is it still going? I think we must be told.
June 30th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
Dearest Sarah
I have to admit I purchased these with you in mind, and think we need to get together over a slice of something nice. I have tried to research the Lard Information Bureau and have come up with very little, other than a higher purpose to find out more. If ever there was a job in marketing that I would like, it would be that one!
July 30th, 2008 at 8:33 am
Emma - what a trip down memory lane. Don’t I remember these well - were they collected by series? can’t remember. I expect they were the originator of pineapple and cheese hedgehogs. Or even perhaps chocolate cake hedgehogs with chocolate buttons for spines. There is a hedgehog theme developing for the safari suppers. Also I once worked for the Home Grown Cereal Authority as a ‘figures clerk’ - their words not mine; has to be the same era as the LIB!
August 3rd, 2008 at 7:36 am
Maybe another round of ‘Woman’s LIB’ beckons…..
Was the ‘figure’s clerk’ another way of saying ‘model’? There are definitely a few hedgehoggy dishes…. think you may be onto something there for the first Safari Supper! Care to take part?