Jacob is busy comes around to me every year, puts another link on my chain, humbug Christmas and told tiny to clear off too

Please Sir, can we have some more?

Red and Blue Army!

As already mentioned we never ate the dates but the odd thing is that on our frequent visits to Spain we always have dates with bacon if eating tapas

There's probably another thread in that ME. Smoking Gauloises in France was a very different experience to lighting one up in the local. Similarly all those bottles of exotic booze people bought on holiday which tasted completely different when they got home.

Christmas pudding was always a curiosity. Carefully inspecting the spoon to see if you were about to bite into a sixpence then finding out after one mouthful why it was only served once a year.

Non-alcoholic cider. I loved that as a boy, as well as the big brown bottle with the cork stopper.

Edited by Slimey Toad (15 Dec 2022 9.39am)

peardrax also, I believe?
Many homes had a small cocktail cabinet which lit up within when the doors opened (I still have my grandparents 50's job)
inside was crap booze that hung around xmas after xmas, Advocaat, sherry, ginger wine and marachino cherries in syrup that my brother & I would nick, 1 each a day until the jar got a bit empty looking.

Kids,tired of being bothered by your pesky parents?
Then leave home, get a job & pay your own bills, while you still know everything.