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[NickFitz]

And so he's in dry dock tomorrow for a biopsy. Six months. Gotta love the NHS.

[mudskipper]

And so he's in dry dock tomorrow for a biopsy. Six months. Gotta love the NHS.

It would have been five and a half months, if he hadn't forgotten to go to his pre-op appointment two weeks ago...

[SimonMac]

And so he's in dry dock tomorrow for a biopsy. Six months. Gotta love the NHS.

Dry Dock, Leeds

[zeitghost]

I don't think "people used to really like eating liver" - there was meat rationing until mid-1954, so people ate whatever they could get. I suspect most people didn't like it much.

I know that my parents both grew from childhood to adulthood with meat rationing. We occasionally had liver when my siblings and I were children in the Sixties because our family was quite poor by modern standards, but it disappeared from the home menu in the Seventies when the family's standard of living improved, as did so many people's then.

My parents don't eat liver any more. I'm pretty sure they don't like it. And if a chef from one of those high-end restaurants was to see the way they used to cook it, she would conclude not so much that "people don't know what to do with offal any more" as that they never really knew what to do with it

Zeity excepted, of course

I think you ate what you could get. You'd get more liver for fewer coupons at a guess.

My dad & I liked liver, ZeitMater & ZeitSis not so much.

We never had lamb kidneys or heart, both of which I rather enjoy.

Not keen on pig's liver for some reason.

Never tried cow liver.

But fava beans & a nice chianti make everything taste good.

[zeitghost]

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ZeitZenChuryOm(tm)

[NickFitz]

I think you ate what you could get. You'd get more liver for fewer coupons at a guess.

My dad & I liked liver, ZeitMater & ZeitSis not so much.

We never had lamb kidneys or heart, both of which I rather enjoy.

Not keen on pig's liver for some reason.

Never tried cow liver.

But fava beans & a nice chianti make everything taste good.

According to this very 1990s site, offal wasn't originally rationed.

I remember seeing an episode of Dad's Army where, in a scene set in Mr. Jones's shop, he tells somebody they can't have a sausage because it would take them over their meat ration. My dad pointed out that, in fact, sausages were never rationed. One does wonder what was going into the sausages, in that case

[NickFitz]

With all this talk of rationing, I've remembered that I need to go shopping. Or I could put it off till tomorrow and go to the chip shop tonight. But then I'll want to avoid doing it tomorrow as well. Might as well go and get it over with, I suppose

[zeitghost]

According to this very 1990s site, offal wasn't originally rationed.

I remember seeing an episode of Dad's Army where, in a scene set in Mr. Jones's shop, he tells somebody they can't have a sausage because it would take them over their meat ration. My dad pointed out that, in fact, sausages were never rationed. One does wonder what was going into the sausages, in that case

Sawdust off the floor, just like before the war.

<ZG in "ZeitGrandfather was a butcher" mode>

[norrahe]

Afternoon

[norrahe]

And so he's in dry dock tomorrow for a biopsy. Six months. Gotta love the NHS.