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Post by Wheldale on Nov 17, 2011 13:55:02 GMT -5
Are there any types of food eaten by miners specific to a area of the UK? Ie cornish pasty.
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Post by pitsparky on Nov 21, 2011 15:59:03 GMT -5
In the Northumberland area we used to eat home made " Stotty Cake" which is a large flat bread about 9 0r 10 inches across and about 1 and a half inches thick and round in shape.
They are what made Greggs bakery famous and they still sell them, ( in the North East of England anyway )
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Post by John on Nov 21, 2011 16:08:03 GMT -5
Never took anything special for snap, usually cheese and onion, corned beef and tomato bread rolls, haselet sandwiches, potted beef sandwiches or bread and butter and a packet or two of crisps. Odd times egg sandwiches. Monday night might be bread and beef dripping sandwiches!! 
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Post by erichall on Nov 23, 2011 11:24:00 GMT -5
Funny this should crop up now. I worked from 1958 up to 1968 in the old South Barnsley Area, and never took anything other than Bread & Dripping sandwiches for snap. Affter moving into the N.Derbyshire Area tastes changed. I then retired and recently moved to Buxton, where I joined the Tideswell Male Voice Choir. We went recently to do a show at the Elsecar Heritage Centre. I was bred & born in nearby Hoyland whilst my wife came from Elsecar, and so it was 'going home' in effect. Talking to the lads in the choir, they said that we were performing in the Heritage Centre. 'Oh, the old New Yard!', I exclaimed.
I then had to explain that the HC had originally been the workshops for Elsecar Colliery and eventually an Area Workshops. We performed in one of the old buildings, and then were invited to the Milton Arms, a nearby pub who had sponsored the event. 'They'll have laid sandwiches on for us.', I was told. Imagine my surprise when the Landlady came round with their 'speciality' - Home-made bread smothered in Dripping!!!! Best night we've had for a long time.
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Post by John on Nov 23, 2011 13:05:27 GMT -5
When I live in Oz, I used to go down and spend my Xmas holidays with my Cousin and his family in Victoria. One evening we were talking, everyone else had gone to bed, and the pair of us pigged out on a loaf of bread toasted with pork dripping on it and drank ourselves silly on cheap port....A feast for the Gods...
Collieries down under are not totally safety lamp, only designated areas, like within 100 metres of the face, or the returns etc.. So we had electric water boilers to make our tea or coffee, and the usual pie heater, set up in the "crib room" usually a cut through, between the belt road and second intake to the face.
A lot of Oz miners used to bring "hot pots" an aluminium pot with a lid that they would bring a meal in and put in the pie heater for crib time.
I've even seen a pizza brought in for crib time!!
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Post by dazbt on Nov 23, 2011 18:36:24 GMT -5
A COLLIER’S ETIQUETTE
He always did it
Uncaringly really,
A bit embarrassing for others.
Prompting squeals of disgust
At parties and get-to-gethers
But he did it anyway
He always did it at home
A mealtime routine
Always had his trifle first
His bun, biscuits or ice cream
Eaten quickly in place of starters.
It never stopped him eating the rest
Never spoiled his appetite
He said it was working in the pit
That had set his curious ways
Always eating the best bit first
Perchance he got buried
Halfway through snap time
And missed the best bits.
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Post by blueflame on Dec 4, 2011 8:16:26 GMT -5
Cheese sandwiches, I dont know why but they always tasted great, could it have been the coal dust  I never tried raw onion until I was coaxed into trying some with my cheese sandwiches, oh heaven and liked it ever since. Although when I found raw garlic was just as nice some working down wind of me didnt always appreciate that wonderful smell of garlic  Garlic is a little bulb it goes quiet well with cheese it wasnt only the cutterman who would be weeping on his knees |
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Post by John on Dec 4, 2011 11:06:02 GMT -5
Cheese sandwiches, I dont know why but they always tasted great, could it have been the coal dust I never tried raw onion until I was coaxed into trying some with my cheese sandwiches, oh heaven and liked it ever since. Although when I found raw garlic was just as nice some working down wind of me didnt always appreciate that wonderful smell of garlic Garlic is a little bulb it goes quiet well with cheese it wasnt only the cutterman who would be weeping on his knees I hate the smell of garlic! The face team I worked with in Australia at Angus Place Colliery used to chew on that stuff all shift, you could smell their breaths in the T/G end of the face..... I think they did it to annoy the Deputy.....Hmmmm, I wonder if they thought he was a werewolf? ? |
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Post by blueflame on Dec 4, 2011 13:04:17 GMT -5
Cheese sandwiches, I dont know why but they always tasted great, could it have been the coal dust I never tried raw onion until I was coaxed into trying some with my cheese sandwiches, oh heaven and liked it ever since. Although when I found raw garlic was just as nice some working down wind of me didnt always appreciate that wonderful smell of garlic Garlic is a little bulb it goes quiet well with cheese it wasnt only the cutterman who would be weeping on his knees I hate the smell of garlic! The face team I worked with in Australia at Angus Place Colliery used to chew on that stuff all shift, you could smell their breaths in the T/G end of the face..... I think they did it to annoy the Deputy.....Hmmmm, I wonder if they thought he was a werewolf? ? John we had a Polish guy on our team, he always loved garlic but you only notice it when you dont eat it I couldnt chew it all shift  but a clove with a sandwich was nice at times. An acquired taste  |
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Post by mickfitter on Apr 1, 2012 17:58:21 GMT -5
Used to be tuna sandwiches every day , now Im older I have ham or corned beef with pickle every day down Daw mill.
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Post by John on Apr 2, 2012 8:03:25 GMT -5
Corned beef and tomato bread rolls, haselet(sp)
When I was in Oz, I loved a particular canned ham that came from an east European country, jeeze did it make me break wind after a couple of hours!
Bread and crisp sandwiches was another speciality, sausage rolls, cheese and onion...Too many to mention..
I did work with a feller who brought cheese sandwiches every day, each day would be a different variety of cheese.
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Post by mineruk on Apr 2, 2012 13:16:55 GMT -5
Peasepudding sandwiches washed down with cold tea at Kimblesworth Durham
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Post by Sam from Kent on Apr 3, 2012 7:58:28 GMT -5
Does anyone remember the Serbian Bean Soup we were sent during the strike?
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Post by dazbt on Apr 3, 2012 8:15:03 GMT -5
Does anyone remember the Serbian Bean Soup we were sent during the strike? I can't recall the soup but I do remember the tins of steak and blocks of butter. |
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Post by dazbt on Apr 3, 2012 8:22:19 GMT -5
Without doubt the best thing I ever tasted underground was 'iced pineapple', a lad at Ireland surprised us all by producing a partly frozen pineapple at the end of a long shift changing a 420 Buttock gearhead gearbox in a fairly warm tail gate end, he had wrapped the fruit in newspaper and put in the freezer the day before, it had just about thawed but still had bits of ice when he shared it up, absolutely gorgeous.
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Post by spanker on Apr 3, 2012 13:26:33 GMT -5
The beans we had sent were also nasty, some sort of oil in em it tasted like aquacent.
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but a clove with a sandwich was nice at times. 