I remember when our school opened its little tuck shop, 1957, I used to love the packets of 2 bourbon then. Biscuits were a luxury in our house, if mum had a few pennies spare she would buy a bag of broken biscuits from the co-op. Sometime we could find an almost whole one, oh what joy sorting them out.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Used to buy broken biscuits",loose" when I was at school, little 'corner' shop ,- but no corner!! Sugar,rice,was weighted out by MR DURANT who then fas cinated me doing the origami thing with blue manila paper
I used to shop in Norman’s, remember Stormin’ Norman, or was it just a Cornish shop? all of their loose products were in bins you scooped it out yourself, much less packaging, but Elf ‘n Safety put a stop to that. This was going up to 1987.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
We have one round the corner from us. There was one in Exeter when I lived there (late 80s / early 90s) - called 'Scoop & Weigh' but it closed. Now they're proliferating as zero- waste shops. I use ours for dried fruit, liquid soap, washing powder and things like vinegar & spices mainly.
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
@Lyn ...Norman's (in Launceston?).... I think I said my sister used to go there when she was in Lifton and I'd go with her to the place when I went to visit. When I moved to Eastbourne there was a place called ESK - same layout model - the separate pet shop, and the same sort of layout (and goods! You had to sift through to find the gems) in the main store. Good garden centre (well, my wife used to like it). Turns out it was the part of the same 'group'. The local ESK was supposed to be closing a year or two back - I haven't been down that way for ages - so not sure if it actually went.
As for iced gems - aren't they those mini things with the piped swirl of icing on a biscuit base? I though those were awful, along with jammie dodgers and those pink wafery thingies ....
But what is good is get some condensed milk, stick it unopened in a pressure cooker for 20-40 mins and make dulce de leche (we used to work from full fat milk and boil it down, but pressure cooking from a can is so much faster and less messy) - and stick that between two digestives. I'm not a sweet person (obviously) but I brought dulce de leche back from Argentina and the kids (and their dentist) loved it.
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This was going up to 1987.
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