British food - treacle etc

[S_Ings]

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From: S_Ings
Subject: Re: British food - treacle etc
Reply To: [Yahoo! #5789] British food - treacle etc
Date: 8/8/00 1:28 am  (ET)

I took a short vacation and am now catching up on the 500+ messages
posted while I was away. I couldn't pass up adding my 2 cents worth on
the topic of food, though (and if I wait until I read all the posts,
I know I'll forget).

Neil, your explanation of the term "treacle" reminded me of stories
my mother told us of her home economics class. Apparently they made
them put black treacle (which we call black strap molasses) on their
porridge. Seems it tasted bad enough that she and her classmates used
to dump it out the window (which caused quite a stir in the spring, when
the snow melted and the porch roof it landed on started to smell funny!).

My grandmother was from Sheffield and my grandfather was Polish. How's
perogies and butter tarts for a combination?

I will now resume reading posts til I catch up (despite the blood dripping
on the floor, caused by a kitten who thought he could access my keyboard
by climbing my left arm!).

Sheryll

P.S. If there is still a need for people to take on some of the posts,
I'll happily volunteer (being somewhat unemployed at the moment).