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Jigjags, I do like your little scenarios - interesting, informative … and really fun to read. Thanks.

I'm less enthusiastic about some (all) of your dishes as I wouldn't be able to stomach (literally) any of those. Still, Luke might come up with other, more appetising offerings.

When I was a wee lad I remember being round a friend's house for tea. His dad had a stomach ulcer (or something like that) and tripe was one of the few things he could eat - I have to say, (Luke King Back) it looked absolutely disgusting!

Brendan . . it is revolting

As a child I was forced to eat tripe several times a week

Consequently, I have never had a stomach ulcer

My grandchildren have never seen tripe . . perhaps it should be recommended fare, lest a generation of ulcer sufferers be thrust upon our already overburdened health system


Jigjag, I have just found your query regarding our Target retail stores

I do not shop there, and pronounce the name "Tar-gut"

Regular patrons prefer the faux-French "Tar-dzay"

Hannah, if it tastes anything like it looks, you have my heartfelt sympathies. Mind you, I think it's used in Haggis which, I'm told, is quite savoury, so there may be times when it's not too bad. My friend's dad however, had it boiled, which made it turn the most anaemic grey colour (or perhaps it always is!).

Hannah, Brendan, I couldn't eat tripe if you paid me - even the look of it is enough to put me off.

Brendan, I couldn't eat haggis either - but I'm almost certain it doesn't include tripe. I think the main ingredients are heart, liver and lungs - that's gruesome enough (for me) without adding tripe!

Jigjag, in case you're looking in … today's Malone Times (Mon 1) clue was partly inspired by you.

Malone, Brendan and Hannah.

Thanks for your postings which were interesting and fun to read. I mentioned (or rather Luke did) the 3 "meals" as my father grew up on that stuff. Even when he became quite affluent, he loved eating bread and dripping with champagne. It looked disgusting and I never tried it.

malone - thanks, I will check your thread - I feel honoured

During the most recent episode of Line of Duty we saw Hastings (Adrian Dunbar) type definately in an online message. Surely such a senior polis should be able to spell! Or if not, the script writer perhaps?

Jigjag . .

We may be sounding like the "Four Yorkshiremen", but bread and dripping was reasonably common fare when I was young . . just after the war

Other not so distant memories, are Bullock's Tongue, Cheek, Brawn, Giblets, and Pigs' Trotters . . none of which will ever make a reappearance on my dining table; with, or without champagne



Fellow pedants, I trust, will forgive my unnecessary use of capital letters, and my deliberate omissions of full-stops

Hannah,Malone, Brendan & Jigjag ...

As the token `Yorkshireman` on the forum I did used to love bread and dripping - with copious sprinkling of salt of course! My grandma used to make huge Yorkshire Puddings in square tins on the `range` which you ate separately on a plate with onion gravy ... then you had a `proper` dinner!

I could not eat black pudding or tripe - I know a lady who supplied a local shop with brawn - the smell of it being cooked was horrible!

Thanks Jigjag & Malone for your Supermarket Tales which have entertained us so much!