Lobster, due to plentiful stocks, was once considered lower class food, and sometimes even served up to prisoners. The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
Just like oysters. A lot of the dishes around the world now considered delicacies and fine dining at high prices started off as peasant food the upper classes wouldn’t touch.
offal at a guess….theres a very popular restaurant on the kings road that sells mainly offal - liver, kidneys, heart etc etc All traditional poor / rural people’s food. Now charging big prices in Chelsea. It might even have a Michelin star
Yes, a treat at Easter or some other occasion maybe.It was cheaper to eat beef in those days. Though the chickens were tastier and better treated than the battery reared ones these days. My dad had a bakery and fisherman customers would often drop some halibut in, I once said as a young kid oh no, not halibut for tea again. Wish I could afford to have it regularly now.
We very seldom got chicken when I was a kid and you're right,it tasted like chicken In some ways we were lucky that we lived out in the sticks in Driffield,my Mother's 3 brothers all had guns and fishing rods. There'd always be something on the table,legally gained or not.
I refer the honourable gentleman to the post immediately above his. The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
Imagine how those brave trawlermen risking their lives battling heavy seas and freezing conditions to bring us cod and haddock back would have felt if they had known one day people would be putting curry sauce on the fish?
My dad was on Trawlers from the late 50's onwards was in the cod wars time to,he used to bring really big boxes of fish home when they landed the catch after 6 to 12 weeks away and give the neighbours loads of it there was so much different fish. Think he worked for a company called Marrs or Mar or something.
Andrew Marr International (or that’s what it became anyway) The Andrew I know (who is now a CBE) joined the family business in 1960. Was a family business so may have had a slightly different name in earlier years (it’s been around over 100 years I think) He’s a lovely bloke in my experience and does a huge amount, very quietly, for charity. Particularly for young people
Knew it was something like that was just looking at some old photo's of my dad on the ship decks with other crew members, greased back hair, pants pulled high and massive buckle belts and vests.
