PIECES ON ..........?

[Hughie]

My faither used to make us a piece on jam, quartered and dipped in batter then deep fried.
Sometimes that was tea.

[Penny Tray]

Hughie,

When you said earlier a "piece on jam - on a shovel" did you mean "on" a shovel or "from" a shovel. My first inclination was you meant a big piece - and then, remembering you worked in Winton Foundry, it occurred to me that like others I've heard of you may have heated/toasted your pieces on a shovel over an open furnace?????

[Penny Tray]

A piece on fresh crispy lettuce straight from the gairden - lashed, of course, with salad dressing.

[little plum]

Brown bread , Tuna fish mixed with salad cream, sweet corn in it is o.k.
Brown bread, cheese and raw onion, with or without salad cream.

[Hughie]

Hughie,
When you said earlier a "piece on jam - on a shovel" did you mean "on" a shovel or "from" a shovel.

No, PT. It was part of the street game "Truth, Dare or Promise. I remember a common dare was to knock on a neighbour's door and ask for a piece on jam on a shovel. Maybe that was just in Whitlees Cresent.

The truth, dare or promise I think might have been part of the other street game "Kerb & Wall".

[Meg]

Brown bread , Tuna fish mixed with salad cream, sweet corn in it is o.k.
Brown bread, cheese and raw onion, with or without salad cream.

How posh are you Little Plum!!!!! We had never HEARD of tuna fish when I was a wean, never mind sweetcorn. Brown bread wasn't something we ever had in our house - if we were going "upmarket" it was a pan loaf. I remember my parents saying that someone who had a "pan loaf" accent, had a "put on" posh accent.

Meg

[bobbydarg]

Don't let him kid you Meg, it would be fish paste.

[Meg]

That's mair like it Robert!

Meg

[meekan]

A piece an' mince

[Rowanside]

A piece an' mince

with rhubarb spread

[little plum]

I see the " auld alliance" are at it again.
Just as well I never mentioned " cucumber" my dad grew them in his greenhouse.

[morag]

oooo, salmon and cucumber sandwiches, yum!

Seems we called it American pan bread / loaf and it was usually for visitors. Give me Wonderloaf any day or well fired rolls from Pops.