Comments about potato

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Pat Fleming (nee Brannan): What a great site!! Just spent a morning reading through the messages and re-living my youth. I lived at 93, Lyndhurst Ave until I was about 5 years old. I remember a lady called Phylis......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Pat Fleming (nee Brannan): What a great site!! Just spent a morning reading through the messages and re-living my youth. I lived at 93, Lyndhurst Ave until I was about 5 years old. I remember a lady called Phylis......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Steve Weir: Here's a few more topics for you to get your teeth into...Irlam Social Club (Home of Doctor Death the wrestler that could wip us teenagers into a frenzy with his dastardly deeds). Potatoe picking (form of......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Dean, Yes, next to the newsagents. I wish we could get some treacle toffee in Adelaide.....and some Blackpool rock too..and while I'm at it, a few of Morris's meat and potato pies.!!!! Cheers.... Cyril........

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Cyril B: Hi Sheila, That's right! Wash Farm.I expect all that old machinery will be lying in some museum by now.. The wrestling club I think was run by his son who had competed in the Olympics at some......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

A. Weinstein: Hi Stan, You got that right wow!!! you just made my memory kick in do you remember the Spero Potato Chips they had? I most liked the choclate covered Jelly candies they had on the counter......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Norma The building at the junction of Ferry rd was James Goodier, wholesale potato and corn merchants.They supplied the area chip shop and greengrocery businesses with a very wide variety of potatoes from......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

jack: beautiful pictures, i haven't seen the falls in over 28 years, you know once they stopped the falls to take care of the rocks below and another time it froze over, now would you believe......

in response to: Onguiaahra by Elicar

carol: It's Christmas eve, and I'm up late making all the above mentioned things. Am right now ricing the potatoes for making the lefse. Oh, by the way, in Arizona where I live now,......

in response to: Typical Norwegian Food by Rune-Willem

carol: anon (cpe-72-129-0-54.socal.res.rr.com): 11th Nov 2007 - 01:21 GMT Quote from anon. who wants: "Interesting notes on Norweigan foods. Can someone explain Akevitt; krumkaka; sandbachels and rosettes? Visiting Norway this February '07. Oslo to Kirkenes, to have......

in response to: Typical Norwegian Food by Rune-Willem

Bill: Thanksgiving in Brooklyn in the 1930's. We lived on St Marks Av and Utica most of the homes were 2 family and owner occupied on the 1st and 2nd floors and 3rd floor was......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

stepha: ok, i think it was dubrows, really incredible potato pirogen, fried or steamed. yum! during the early 50's my family would eat there. we lived on crown, then carroll st....

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Anne M. Berger: I grew up in Brooklyn in the forties and fifties. It was truly the melting pot. I went to St. Joseph's on Sydam St. My Irish friends went to St. Lenords on Toutman?......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Halley: what would a large sack of potatoes cost?...

in response to: More Architecture by Guy McLaren

anon (c-75-72-222-226.hsd1.mn.comcast.net): my mother makes klub, potato like dumplings... with syrup.. any thoughts?...

in response to: Typical Norwegian Food by Rune-Willem

Tony: I WAS born in a house on Bushwick Avenue and Halsey Street. My father and mother were both immigrants from Italy, They left italy for the new world to improve their lives and to......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

john gault - ontario, canada: thank you so much for sharing these photographs. Our family came from Enniskillen, as others, in the potato famine. I have been been attempting to contact other members of our family. If you......

in response to: street furniture by Jamie

EvilGentleman: I think he's referring to the pic of the market, with its signs of 10 lb potatoes and 99 lb tomatoes. I never knew there were hillbillies in the Maritimes. Mind you, back in the late......

in response to: Home Pt. 4: Downtown (Main Street) by CE

zag: cornstarch works really well instead of flour - it's completely clear and sticks reeaaall well (especially if you follow fray's suggestion and add some sugar when you're cooking it all up). i usually start out......

in response to: Wheatpasting: How to by An@Rch15T

T,L Sally: That might be just the name of the shipper to Toronto... Anyway they are really great for potato salad. ...

in response to: Magala Potatoes by Biff

GGP: I've never heard of these...and I know potatoes! :)...

in response to: Magala Potatoes by Biff

Biff: Yes, From Fort William, now Thunder Bay Ontario. My Grandad's rifle is in the local Museum "James McGregor" he was in gold rush of the 1849. But was robbed and came back to Upper Canada......

in response to: My Best Friend\'s Tulips by Biff

elaine: figures. i hope we were having something delicious. today i have eaten mostly porridge, popcorn, and a banana. in an ideal world a butler would now be arriving at my door with salmon en croute,asparagus......

in response to: Odd Trash by Peter

jack: peter, you awaken many memories when you mention coney and stillwell. i grew up in 50's gravesend. my family moved from bay 13th and bath to gravesend. i walked many times from......

in response to: Brooding and Almost Disappearing, in Color by joey

jack: crush the potatoes and then boil them andlet the steam run through a hose to a bottle. now tomatoes are different. theyre red and have a better shape. and when they rot......

in response to: The Bodegas of Washington Avenue by Peter

elaine: the potato rampant - you could have a coat of arms with that on - lots of arms...

in response to: The Bodegas of Washington Avenue by Peter

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: I went to college in Epsom and lived above a shop with a succession of other art students. We were revolting. Whenever I discovered an old, sprouted potato in a dark cupboard I would plant......

in response to: The Bodegas of Washington Avenue by Peter

Jamie: Good call. Even the US FDA state that there is "no safe level of [[wiki:solanine]] in food". The old wives tale of the green bits being poisinous is onlt half true. The green bits are......

in response to: The Bodegas of Washington Avenue by Peter

jeeff: a while ago me and hool were considering whether to eat an old potato covered in eyes and sprouts and things. we did some research on the web and learned all about potato toxins......

in response to: The Bodegas of Washington Avenue by Peter

Jamie: also: is a shop window, like, in direct sunlight, the best place to store fresh vegetables and suchlike? I read this thing about potatoes the other day, about how they produce a toxin, i think......

in response to: The Bodegas of Washington Avenue by Peter

Neck Face: We are over at Rips house. Rip is still sleeping so we are going to just take some money and go to T.G.I.Fridays for some Potato skins. Rip has a car in the Garage, its......

in response to: Fuck Neck Face by sine

barry: I don,t think the plague did reach ireland,What did occur was a potato famine(1845-1850)FAMINE FEVER-cholera,dysentery,scurvy,typhus.Same thing i guess.Potatoes were irelands main crop and food source.Landlords at this time respond,s to there tenants who could,t pay......

in response to: 7th Century Church by barry

elaine: they were patricularly good, more fried potato than chip, and done to a turn...

in response to: today by elaine

Peter: foodface!! egg eyes! meat mouth! er, but what is that stuff on the left...? fried potatoes? looks like maybe mushrooms......

in response to: today by elaine

elaine: well, it's history and geography. the romany gypsies are one thing, then there are irish gypsies, and then there are elective 'new age' travellers. the new age travellers came out of a long standing squatting......

in response to: urban transgressions and taboos by elaine

American: I personally feel that there is too much hatred and attention on the British in Bogside. No offense but shit happens, and my family was Irish about 100 years removed and they came over to......

in response to: The Bogside by norniron

Jamie: You find those here most frequently in chinese places. They call them {chips} but they're more commonly reffered to as 'potato wedges'. I am partial to greasy {american} style prefab fries. Although i have boycotted......

in response to: Chips for Lunch by Jamie

Peter: its rare to get chips that look that good unless youre at a ##pomme frites## stand or a non-fastfood place... as opposed to the pre-fab, extruded skinny/greasy mcdonald's variants. i love what they call "steak......

in response to: Chips for Lunch by Jamie

Gazza: Re: Fat ?? DFBs cant be fat after all that corn we gave them surely ? got any potatoes ????...

in response to: Shankill Road: Belfast by Jamie