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Our Woolies sold everything for 6d but I am not old enough to remember that.

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Yep, buzzie, crisps are what we call chips ... but they do have Kettle Chips in the UK, IMO the best potato chips ever made!

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I had a mini skirt that was 11" long I can remember all those cleaning agents and the mangle I bought a dress in a sale at Modelia it was £2 (then a third of my wages) and it was a jersey wool dress one of those mini dresses that was made up of 4 pieces each side in red and white and I washed it and put it through the mangle and it ripped it from top to bottom it broke my heart .. Do you also remember the white patent boots with lacy legs hehe Who was a mod and who was a rocker? I was a mod... Oh happy days

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I forgot to add my grandad used to make chitterlings(don't know how to spell it) from intestines they were nice with salt and vinegar, scratchings and we always had pigs trotters on a Saturday afternoon with home made bread...

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"Chitlins" (chitterlings) are a very popular soul food item here in the African American community; never eaten them; they sound like other "innards" foods like tripe or brains that I can't contemplate eating.

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My mother used to make brawn from pigs head, she would also serve tripe and onions and faggots. The brand name of the faggots was Brains and I thought that was what they were made of.

I had the most incredible bright yellow mini dress, like your dress suey it cost most of my wages that month but it was beautiful.

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My mom was from Pennsylvania, and brawn was very popular in the German descended people there.... I could never bring myself to eat it. I was a bit old when mini skirts were in, but had good legs (still do!!) so wore them occasionally.

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"Chitlins" (chitterlings) are a very popular soul food item here in the African American community; never eaten them; they sound like other "innards" foods like tripe or brains

Good grief!!-chitterlings??-I remember them. I think I had them once but I was only little. A lady in the village used to sit and prepare them as I recall.

I have only worn a short skirt once--and no picture of it exists-only my top half as some may have seen

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My mum and gran used to like chittlings bought from a pork butcher but I remember once when we had a pig (Wally) which we fattened up for the table/freezer, they set to to make said delicacies.
They are, indeed, made from the small intestine, and the essential thing is to get them clean. They used a garden cane to turn lengths of the squiggly stuff inside out (like you would if sewing a belt for a dress etc) thus allowing all the, err, well, you know what it would be, to be cleaned off. I think they were cooked by boiling, but don't remember that bit. Nor did I eat any. I guess you would if push came to shove.

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Well if push came to a shove in my case DM, I think you have put me off for life with your description!