Crazy signs 2008

[Maggi Young]

A couple of tripe shops in Lancashire ... ?

Do tripe shops still exist? 

 And what do they have on their shop fronts..... "Shop here for a load of tripe"   

[ranunculus]

First one on Google, Maggi, but I am certain there are still one or two on this side of the Pennines ...

http://www.leedsmarket.com/thetripeshop.htm

[ranunculus]

I have just spotted this on the above link ...

Quality tripe can increase your libedo four fold.

It obviously doesn't improve one's spelling ...   

[Anthony Darby]

Four times nothing is still nothing Cliff.

[Maggi Young]

Four times nothing is still nothing Cliff.

 Oh, dear.... that is true, but not relevant, I trust!!




Cliff, I have actually seen THAT tripe shop, many moons ago when visiting Ian's Grandparents in Leeds..... cannot vouch for their tripe but the Kikgate Market in general used to be a wonderful place full of great stalls/shops.... we were amazed at the cheap prices of the fresh food, fruit and flowers, as compared to Aberdeen.... wonder what it's  like now?

[TC]

Do people still eat tripe ?  I can remember in the 1940's, it was dished out once a week by my mother, as it was one of the few items of food not on ration.
Hungry as I was, I could not eat it, as my sister said it was boiled nappies !  I don't think I have eaten it to this day.

[Paddy Tobin]

Tripe was a regular part of the diet when I was young, usually in a  white sauce, a milk and onion concoction. Other now not eaten delicasies which we enjoyed were crubeens (pig's trotters to you?), pig's head, stuffed heart, liver. My mother made an excellent black pudding.

Paddy

[Anthony Darby]

My auntie had two chemists shops in Leeds. My Dad used to travel from Huddersfield to Leeds University during the war. As he was in the home Guard he had a rifle. When he got there he put it is his locker (unlocked) on the Monday morning, collected it on Friday to go back home and guarded an empty factory on Saturday nights.

[Lesley Cox]

Mark's sign translation reminds me of a wonderful story told at the "Alpines '81" Conference (on a tour bus as I remember), by a charming American gentleman whose name I don't recall, (Howard something. Carlo will know,) and in a heavy, German accent.

It concerned a Lufthansa flight into New York I think. For some reason the flight was going to crash over the water. The pilot issued instructions to passengers in first class, including that there were lifeboats aboard for their use and "thank you for flying Lufthansa." Economy had simlar instructions but the facilities for their use were not quite so sophistocated "and thank you for flying Lufthansa." Those paying for the least desirable seats were told to slide down the exit shutes into the water and swim for their lives "and thank you for flying Lufthansa. Those who can't swim, thank you for flying Lufthansa."

No doubt it loses a great deal in the retelling but at the time it was screamingly funny. Perhaps I should apologise to all our German Forumists because I understand their national airline is an excellent one.

[ranunculus]

Mark's sign translation reminds me of a wonderful story told at the "Alpines '81" Conference (on a tour bus as I remember), by a charming American gentleman whose name I don't recall, (Howard something. Carlo will know,) and in a heavy, German accent.

That would be Howard Pfeifer, Lesley ... a lovely chap and an excellent lecturer.

[Gerdk]

Tripe was a regular part of the diet when I was young, usually in a  white sauce, a milk and onion concoction. Other now not eaten delicasies which we enjoyed were crubeens (pig's trotters to you?), pig's head, stuffed heart, liver. My mother made an excellent black pudding.
Paddy

This Forum is an endless source of information - now I know what to avoid in 4 languages - tripe, tripes (French) - callos (Spanish) - Kutteln (German).    Long ago I got a soup with this delicacy in Skopje (Macedonia) but unfortunalely forgot the word for it. 

Gerd

[ranunculus]

Patsas, Gerd?

[Anthony Darby]

Should that be patsinnereds Cliff?

[Gerdk]

Patsas, Gerd?

  Sorry, it was more than 20 years ago. Only remember the unique
feeling when chewing it   

Gerd

[Lvandelft]

Tripe was a regular part of the diet when I was young, usually in a  white sauce, a milk and onion concoction. Other now not eaten delicasies which we enjoyed were crubeens (pig's trotters to you?), pig's head, stuffed heart, liver. My mother made an excellent black pudding.

Paddy

We used to fed our big dog (Hovawart) almost every day with (unwashed) tripe.
Travelling years ago in Switzerland we came late in the evening into a very good restaurant.
We were asked if we wanted something to eat, so we replied that we would like to eat some small portion.
They advised something we did not know, but we tried.
Half way the waitress asked if we liked it and we did, but asked what it was.
When she told us, we both were thinking how our dog always was dispatching his meal and the noise he made.
You will understand we were not so hungry anymore..  
We were happy that we ordered a good bottle of wine to our meal