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From: Roz Griston <>
Subject: RE: LONDON-D Digest V00 #607
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 14:24:52 -0700


what a brilliant piece of deduction. i know we can trace ancestors by
phrases/or dialects that remain our families' vocabularies. but the
idea of tracking them by what they ate is also another subtle hint. my
mother loved pickled pigs feet. i wouldn't go near them as a kid.

does anyone know if pickled pigs feet be an area specific food too, or
is it just generally from all over britain?
roz

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Roz - we live in the North West of England but my husband was born and
brought up in Holloway, North London. He tells me that he and his
cousins
were often packed off to the pie and mash shop round the corner for
their
lunch. Apparently, they all loved it except him. He says to tell you
"Don't
bother to even try - it's disgusting!!!!" So there you go. I have never
been
anywhere near one of these places although a friend told us that there
was a
cafe serving it at Hastings, Sussex a couple of years back (hardly
London!).
While on the subject of traditional London food, my grandmother who I
was
always led to believe was Welsh (name: Jane Owen) loved jellied eels. I
searched for ages for her birth in Wales then decided that only a
Londoner
could like jellied eels (sorry!). Turned out she was born in Holborn,
just
off the City Road! She loved them so much that she was even requesting
them
from her death bed - or so the story goes!

Shirley
in Cumbria.

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