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Peanuts In The 1950S
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Older ABers - do you have any recollections of peanuts in the 50s?
I remember freshly-roasted peanuts for 6d a bag in Romford Market, and horrible peanuts & raisins covered in soapy chocolate.
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I remember freshly-roasted peanuts for 6d a bag in Romford Market, and horrible peanuts & raisins covered in soapy chocolate.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.The governor (Bruce was his name, I seem to recall) of a central London pub I used to frequent in the 1980s/90s always used to get two or three sacks of peanuts (in shells) every Friday lunchtime. He placed them in large dishes on the bar and around the pub. The drill was that you ate some of the nuts and ground the shells into the floor (an old bare wood job, none of those poncey carpets). By 3pm (we had a decent break for refreshments in those days) the entire pub was two or three inches deep in ground up peanut shells. Happy days!
rowanwitch: thanks for the memories of Romford market foodstuffs. The peanut seller was outside the Shopping Hall, wasn't it? My mum used to buy all sorts of cheap sweets there (broken slabs of toffee, for instance), but for some reason never the peanuts.
All changed now, of course, not that I've been back for many years.
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All changed now, of course, not that I've been back for many years.
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