Your tea, madam

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woberty
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Re: Your tea, madam

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Coop 99 tea for me.
Though am partial to a bit of Earl Grey.
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Re: Your tea, madam

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You can't beat Yorkshire Gold leaf tea, freshly picked from the hills overlooking Cleckheaton.

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kudu wrote:You can't beat Yorkshire Gold leaf tea, freshly picked from the hills overlooking Cleckheaton.

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And brought to market in a sidecar pulled by a Panther.
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In early diesel days our men used brand new cylinder oil bottles from out of the stores and uased them as kettles.
They drank tea quick in West Hartlepool as they didn't like hanging about.
We'r North Easterners and we like cups and saucers!!!
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I have a couple of Ringtons Tea caddys and a picture frame made by Maling, worth a few bob these days.
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Postman Prat
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Hi Jim

Ignore them. My grandad (a shipyard worker) always had a cup and saucer. When he wanted to drink he would pour the tea from the cup, into the saucer, and SLURP.
:oops:

Takes all sorts

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And in Lancashire they "brew" a pot of tea
EX DARNALL 39B FIREMAN 1947-55
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Boris wrote:And in Lancashire they "brew" a pot of tea
I cant believe that statement coming from the mouth of a Darnall lad, what about the whole bag of mashings?(Me from the NE telling a Sheffield lad :oops: )
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IIRC, my nan in Wales used to say "wet the tea".
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kudu wrote:You can't beat Yorkshire Gold leaf tea, freshly picked from the hills overlooking Cleckheaton.

Kudu
Allus thort it wer' 'Uddersfild, lad. Ne'er mind, it's near enuff.

In Dewsbury, we always referred to it as "mashing the tea." I used to drive my father to distraction, looking for the Tea Masher. After all, we used a Taty Masher for the spuds!

As was once said in Haworth Loco - "There's yer tea, ne'er mind the grease stains they're only on t'outside o' t'cup." I worried about those guys. They used to eat chips with black, oily, greasy fingers which were clean AFTER they'd finished the chips. Put me off 'em I can tell you!
If I ain't here, I'm in Bilston, scoffing decent chips at last!!!!
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Hi Blink Bonny

Shouldn't let it put you off. While serving in the Grey Funnel Line we always maintained that 'you eat more than a shovel full of s... before you die!!'
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There are two problems with my current location:

a) all the chippies here seem to serve battered or "orange" chips rather than frying them for a few seconds more to cook 'em properly and they are SO GREASY!!!

b) see my sign-off. Best part of fish 'n' chips, the bits.

Oh, there is one chippie that serves proper chips, cooked in beef dripping and with bits. But that's in the Black Country Museum and its seven quid in. So over 8 quid for a decent bag of chips.

Weakening. weakening....
If I ain't here, I'm in Bilston, scoffing decent chips at last!!!!
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Blink Bonny wrote:They used to eat chips with black, oily, greasy fingers which were clean AFTER they'd finished the chips. Put me off 'em I can tell you!
Bet they never got arthritis. :mrgreen:
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Re: Your tea, madam

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bit's Blink Bonny ??? , around here we call's 'em "scraps" , also when the chap from Ringtons called t'other day he kindly informed me that their brand's had gone up .

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