Rag and bone man

[Jellis]

We used to have Yorkshire pudding cooked with sliced apples and sprinkled with sugar.

I hated the stuff but ate it because I was hungry 

This was a mid week 'afters' in the Midlands.

[acorngen]

Yorkshire pudding is in fact a starter and shoule be served with onion gravy.  Over the years it as become part of the main meal.  My ex father in law would say he hadn't had Sunday Dinner if it didn't include Yorkshire puddings.
Rob

[Dougalgeorge]

Every Christmas Day, my Geordie Grandad, when we sat down to Christmas lunch used to say to my Granny -

"Where`s the Yorkshire puddings?"


According to Granny, no Yorkshire pudding with Christmas lunch, it just wasn`t the done thing. I don`t know why. But every year he said it just to wind her up and get a response from her.

Now, the family still carry this on, every year someone asks the question and we still don`t have Yorkshire puds with Christmas lunch.

I wonder if this is a `class` thing?  We also never watched ITV when I was a child  They thought we were posher than we actually were   

So does anyone else have Yorkshire pud with Christmas lunch?

Tracey

[acorngen]

I have Yorkshire puds with any roast meal but then I am a Yorkshireman.  My step mum god rest her soul used to be old fasioned and made the yorkshire pud as a starter but her onion gravy was terrible so I used to make excuses not to be there for Sunday Dinner

[Viktoria]

Weeeeeell--- some-- not me you understand --- say that to have Y.Pud before the main meal does tend to fill up some of your appetite and is  a way of ensuring that not too much meat is eaten at the main meal. This could be a dastardly slur on Yorkshire folk by Lancastrians. Then again it could be a wind up the other way round.There`s sitting on the fence for you.
 I like Y.P. anytime, savoury or sweet, like Mum used to have with syrup as afters .       Cheerio. Viktoria.                                                         

[acorngen]

Viktoria,
What do the Lancastrians know about us Yorkshiremen hehehehehehe

[Viktoria]

Well I did say I was on the fence --- but just as a joke ,Some --again not me-- Lancastrians say that when a Yorkshireman invites anyone to their home it`s with the proviso  "You`ll have had your tea won`t you"  and it`s not a question.
But you can`t generalise like that can you -some  of the most generous people I know live in Yorkshire( mind you they could be ex-pat Lancastrians ) and some really "careful " people inhabit my home town in Lanky.They might have got over the border concealed in a van. Theres a lot of it about on the West bound M62.
                                   That`s set the cat aong the pigeons.Cheerio. Viktoria.

[Bilge]

I used to be scared stiff of the Rag and Bone man that toured around the Hereford Streets.

He had a really weird voice......."Raaaaaaaaggggg Boonnneee!" & "Any old Iron"

He used to plod along on his cart with a poor old horse pulling it!

[Jellis]

I was scared of the Rag and Bone Man as well, and the coal man.   If the coal man smiled at me, showing his white teeth in his coal-dust blackened face I would run into the house, fast!

We all loved the milkman, though.  Although I have never liked milk it was a treat if Mum gave me 3d to buy a little bottle of orange juice.