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[jimmy c spark]

When i was a wagon driver delivering fruit and veg used to call at burkhills cafe for a brew old Bob would buy knock off spuds of me what i had fiddled on my run, One day i called old Bob gave me rock bottom price couldnt argue the spuds were knock off so got some breakfast on my way out i stole the six sacks of spuds back drove away did some deliverys called back there later bought a cup of coffee while sat there old Bob asked me had i any more spuds looking surprised said you had some this morning he said some bugger has pinched them so i said hang on will check if i can fiddle you anymore i them sold him back the spuds he had bought in the morning thus i got top wack for those six bags of spuds lol

[mally]

Henry, on 04 August 2010 - 02:24 PM, said:

In the 60's we used to go to the back door and buy a buttered crust for a ha'penny. Later on in the 70's the hygiene standards were such that open ham barm cakes were served from behind glass display cabinets amidst numerous dead flies!!

i remember those buttered crusts well used to buy them from kind of a side door like an off licence that pubs used to have