Thread: how does one eat a vanilla slice?

Originally Posted by Grockle

They did Lou,Aunty Potter(nee Smith) made a ripper Meat and Potato pie with a

blamonge topping

,they couldn't make enough of those for pre pack frozen school dinners,she made a mint from it.

ewwwwww blamonge....never really got into that one

Originally Posted by dullbird

ewwwwww blamonge....never really got into that one

The putrid blue one inkberry, was the most popular.

Originally Posted by dullbird

ewwwwww blamonge....never really got into that one

Marginally better than junket.

I did enjoy semolina though with a blob of strawberry jam in the middle.....but not as much as a vanilla slice and trifle

Originally Posted by dullbird

I did enjoy semolina though with a blob of strawberry jam in the middle.....but not as much as a vanilla slice and trifle

Did you have that at school dinners here then Lou?

Originally Posted by cooper

My mother used to make trifle when I was a kid,and the spongey stuff used to come out kinda purple in colour.We had a boxer dog and when you looked at his knackers and back to the trifle,I could not eat it.

As one naturally does whilst one is eating trifle.

Originally Posted by dullbird

I did enjoy semolina though with a blob of strawberry jam in the middle.....but not as much as a vanilla slice and trifle

I still enjoy it. An easy th make and cheap luxury, these days I have it with lashings of maple syrup, that compensates for the cheapness.

Originally Posted by cooper

My mother used to make trifle when I was a kid,and the spongey stuff used to come out kinda purple in colour.We had a boxer dog and when you looked at his knackers and back to the trifle,I could not eat it.

You've taken me back there Coope, sponge cakes skin coloured one side bruised knackers colour the other,must be 40+ years ago.