Good morning Naga,you're definitely not boring the arse off me,after all this IS an open forum which isn't exclusively VH and RLC and it's refreshing to have a crack about something else,we've had metal,now it's food,long may it continue.We could move on to ballet or opera or Shakespeare or even the evolution of the hula hoop😁anyway I digress.
As I am an "auld git" in my childhood I saw some gross food that people took for granted back then(I wouldn't touch it),"sheep's heid","pigs feet",and the worst of all"tripe".But conversely there was homemade jam,strawberry,raspberry,crab apple,bramble,etc.and we as kids had to help gather all these fruits in the wild or garden.My mum would make girdle scones pronounced(as in prawn,lawn,dawn)these were made in an ordinary frying pan as against the oven.Straight on to the plate hot,loads of butter and homemade jam,heaven!!!.Everything we ate was homemade,steak and kidney pie,stews,Mac and cheese,fish and potato pie,mince done god knows how many ways.My dad served in the RAF out east during the war and came home safely with a curry habit which my mum quickly learned how to cook and my first ever curry was mince but she went a bit overboard and started to curry fish,beef,and of course chicken and nowadays that isn't strange at all.
As for me and cooking I landed on my feet when I married Margaret(51 years ago)as she is a brilliant cook and wife,her apple crumble is to die for but we buy the apples now not like when I was a kid and nicked them out the big posh houses with huge gardens😁So like you Naga I'm passionate about food and do dabble with cooking but my lovely wife does the lions share but keep the chat coming I find it interesting pal👍
P.S.Sorry for bangiing on about my early life.