General Chat

Sugar butties … yum. Maggie, did you know that decades ago sugar butties were a favourite bait, snap etc (name depending where you lived) of miners whose energy needed boosting midway through their shifts.

I came across a fine example of those old terms when my daughter attended crèche in Australia and the head and staff all used the term snap for their mid-morning break.

Don’t throw out your soft bananas, fry them with bacon. Lush bacon and banana butties. :-D

Up here they call your snack a "piece."
Have to say mashing a banana with sugar is lush and evaporated milk. Mnnnn

Allan, you have reminded me of when we had a bad storm in Dec 1995. We had no electric for 4 days and lost the entire contents of the freezer which was full of xmas stuff etc...
But as we had a lot of snow that year, on xmas day we put the frozen food outside to try and keep it for as long as possible. I did claim £300, but my excess then was only £50 so insurance sent us a cheque for £250 and didnt ask for receipts as so many people were claiming and they knew we were without power for several days.

We did lose most of it though and there were loads of large prawns, haddock, salmon, was such a shame.

Florence in the hebrides

I think insurance companies are OK regarding freezer breakdowns. At least that was my experience several years ago when on Christmas Day our son-in-law went to get food or ice from ours and told me it was melting. (This was before we got their old swish f/freezer with an ice-maker inbuilt.)

Most rellies and pals had no spare capacity because they’d stocked up for the hols so apart from what we could eat - and we made a brave effort - most of the food was wasted. Our insurance came up trumps like yours, Florence.