by chris c Fri Sep 29 2017, 23:45
graham64 wrote: Eddie wrote: graham64 wrote: Eddie wrote:One of my memories as a kid was eating real beef dripping sandwiches. Another thing I remember was using the small end of a teaspoon extracting the marrow out of the big cow backbones my Mother had stewed up. That was before the mad cow disease meant cow back bone material had to be scrapped.
I remember the beef dripping butties to, in those days vegetable oils were unheard of dripping and lard were the only cooking fats used. The chippie which was our Friday treat always used beef dripping very tasty the fish and chips were too
I have read, this young current generation, will be the first who will not outlive our generation. This is a very sad state of affairs. Call me an old fool, and you may well be right, but I believe this could be down to the fact, we were brought up as kids on real grub. Junk food was not around in our times. Mums cooked real home food. Also, we spent our time riding miles on bikes and did not spend our days sitting in front of a TV or games console. As a kid and a teenager I was almost skeletal thin, working on paper rounds and caddying until I left School. Then, straight into a factory working a long hard week, on my feet the whole time. Little did I think then, this lifestyle would benefit me many years later.
Kids live in a cotton-wool life these days. They are not free, parents have become paranoid of letting their kids wonder free. The sad fact is, most serious harm done to kids, is done by family or people they know. Also, so much bullshit and pressure out there encourages kids to grow up too fast.
Yes it's all fast food and the latest technology for today's kids going out to play is a dwindling pastime, I do agree parents are very protective of their children these days but it is over the top in most cases
Seen recently
childhood 2017
"Mum! The WiFi is down, we can't do anything!"
childhood 1917
"Let's go and play with a stick!"
Also we seldom had snacks, and sweets were a special treat. As for Coke, and Energy Drinks . . . recently I saw a family going round Minsmere, only two to five miles depending how much ground you cover. They'd just come from the cafe and were carrying snacks and drinks. The small boy was going hyper in one of the hides. After that he was overcome with sleepiness and had to lie down on one of he benches, until he turned over and fell off onto the floor. None of them were slim.
Meanwhile I went for about ten hours between my relatively tiny breakfast and my meal, fuelled by stored energy from the previous day's meal . . .
Damn, I had read about the Butter Shortage, looks like it's now catching up.
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President my favourite is now £2.00 and Kerrygold £1.85, plenty of cheap fake stuff available though 
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