COVID Reminiscing

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Yep, I'm from English/German/Irish roots and it was meat and 3 veg plus a Roast every Sunday with homemade Apple Pie/Crumble and cream and the leftover meat in your Sangers on a Monday. Pies, Pasties,Snag rolls, Jam Donuts all washed down with Creamy Soda or a Sars was the fair for school lunch. The odd ham and salad roll  plus Sunnyboys and Raz to cool your jets when it was summer .Not exactly a smorgasbord of culture or health....
Maggots in cheese?....Blue Vein threw me out for years, who eats mouldy smelly cheese?....

Nothing wrong with that, bought some Danish blue a day or two back, wanted Gorgonzola but while restrictions are on they wouldn't cut a fresh wheel for someone only wanting a small wedge.

My Grandpa's side is English, Irish, Welsh and French, with Grandma's side mostly Italian, so a bit of a mix of meat with potatoes (gratin!) and a glass of Barolo! Farmers, GrandPa grew everything, and everything came out of his paddocks, pens or garden. You name it, beef, lamb, pork, chicken, duck, goat, fish from the river, any and every sort of vegetable, fruit or spice you can imagine. All the food prepared and cooked fresh by GrandMa, from scratch, nothing came from a tin or packet, they even ground the wheat, barley and oats. Milked their own cows, made their own yogurt, ice cream, etc., etc.. Bread, cakes, all from scratch.

GrandPa made his own wine, in huge 6ft diameter barrels he made himself, six of them lined up in a hand dug underground cellar below his workshop, he was also the local blacksmith. Made his own brandy and port, probably the only thing he didn't make was beer because he didn't drink it!