50 shades of crisps plus pudding galore
Anne Baillie Villa of St Georges Basin has thoughts about “the man who comes over the hill” (Col 8 Wednesday), saying it, “reminds me of my mother and grandmother’s horror of coffee mugs and, even worse, being served a hot drink in a teacup without a saucer. During the Depression, they lived in Ashford, a small village between Inverell and the Queensland border, that had many swaggies passing through asking for a drink and something to eat. They were always given a meal and a pot of tea but never a saucer. People inside the house got a saucer.”
Back to crisps of recent days. Geoff Gilligan of Coogee reports, “While I haven’t seen black pudding or haggis flavoured crisps in my local grocer’s, it does cater for our Irish residents with Keogh’s shamrock and sour cream flavoured crisps. The local supermarket up the road caters for local tastes with ‘sausage sizzle’ crisps.” And that’s what multiculturalism is all about, isn’t it?
Still, no one has defended the black pudding crisps, but Jim Dewar of Davistown swears that, “Having enjoyed many a holiday in my homeland, I can vouch for the deliciousness of haggis and cracked pepper crisps. I love ’em. Best of all, no haggis are harmed in the production process.” This is good news. Col8 has long campaigned for proper protection of the wild haggis and would hate to have them hunted for crisps.
More pudding news comes from Reg Richardson of Mosman, who says, “Looking in the fridge at our local butcher, I asked ‘What’s the difference between black pudding and white pudding?’ He said they are similar, but the white is even worse. So I didn’t make a purchase.”
A different sort of pudding bothers Heather Harman of Tuncurry. “Our favourite dessert as children growing up in NZ was ‘Railway Pudding’, a sponge mix full of sultanas. How it got its name remains a mystery.” Any ideas out there in the Col8-o-sphere?
Meanwhile, Andrew York of Chapman (ACT) would like to congratulate Barry Galbraith and Joy Cooksey (chocolate covered peanuts and sultanas are fruit) and ask for their endorsement of his long-running campaign to have bacon reclassified as a vegetable. Everyone should have a hobby, Col8 thinks.
On a different foodstuff, Judith Campbell of Drummoyne remarks that, “As a toddler, our son called caviar Vegemite balls.” This obviously raises the question of why did they feed caviar to a toddler?
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