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From: "ron whiteley" <>
Subject: Re: [YK] Re: NON GEN TRIPE
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 22:04:40 +0100
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All this talk of tripe makes me long for a drippin' sandwich (don't forget
the salt, mum)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rowland Bruce" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 1:09 PM
Subject: Re: [YK] Re: NON GEN TRIPE


> One summer vacation, 1957 I think, my last year at Archies, I worked at
> Wrights in Goodramgate for six or seven weeks making pork pies. On Ebor
Day
> we started at 2 am and made 240,000 individual small ones and several
> thousand each of the larger ones that were served, cut up, in the marquees
> etc. Not all of them, but certainly the vast majority, were consumed at
the
> course, others supplying not only Wrights themselves, but other outlets in
> York and further afield.
> On top of this, in those days, there was also Steigmann's nearer Monk Bar
> which was also a pork butchers and they made pies too. Mrs Steigmann had a
> large house on Heworth Green, and also a holiday home at Scalby Mills in
> Scarborough, about ½ mile from where we lived, and we first came to know
her
> there. My father, who worked at Rowntrees when we moved to York in 1954
used
> to take some leave in the week before Christmas and help with deliveries
to
> shops in York. Pies, bacon, hams, legs of pork, scored to give crisp
> crackling. Our family liked crackling so much there was never enough to
> please us all, leading to the rhetorical question posed by my wife the
first
> time my parents visited us after our wedding, when she realised she could
> have done with a greater quantity, "Why couldn't pigs be born with four
> skins?" which has gone into family folk lore along with her mangling of
> 'under wear' and the Australian for pants, namely Daks, leading to Y
fronts
> in our family being known as under-dicks.
> I think the pies with an egg inside are called Melton Mowbrey pies.
>
> Rowland BRUCE, Adelaide.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: John Waite <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 10:58 AM
> Subject: [YK] Re: NON GEN TRIPE
>
>
> > Yes, tripe and onions in vinegar with thin cucumber slices served cold
on
> a
> > warm summers evening. This was a very common summer Sunday evening meal
> for
> > us served by my grandmother in York in the 1950's.
> > This was the only place that I have had this dish and always thought
that
> > it was a Yorkshire dish. If you ask for tripe any where else they will
> > serve up a mess of boiled tripe which looks and tastes awful.
> > The alternative might be a Wrights pork pie, my dad usually had one with
> an
> > egg inside but we kids preferred the plain kind, not that there was ever
> > anything plain about a Wrights pork pie.
> >
> > Well now that I have relived old memories it is back to my my plain old
> > lunch, a mixed seafood grill.
> >
> > Best regards
> > John Waite
> > in Cranbourne Australia
> >
> > ______________________________
>
> ______________________________

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