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As ever launch

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AtIusvue · 01/04/2025 21:42

Launches tomorrow.

So we will find out the prices and how the products will be sold

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MonteShitshow · 06/04/2025 17:52

Weepixie · 06/04/2025 17:10

My family lived in the tenements of Dundee for generations after coming from Ireland to Glasgow in 1843 where they settled for a few years before moving on. And I can still remember as a child going to visit my great granny who still lived in the tenement where she’d brought up her family of 12. It was probably the early to mid 60’s and most of the building was by then taken up by the family. I can still recall the outside toilets and if my great grannies was in use I’d run down the stairs to my aunties or long the plattie to another aunty to use theirs. It was my grandparents who were the first in the family to have council house though, it must have been in the late 60’s and it was a brand new house on an estate built especially for people who were supervisors or above at work. My grandad was a supervisor in the Cash, the NCR, and worked there all of his life. My parents were the first in the family to buy a house when I was about 11 and prior to that we lived in council housing. But it’s funny how things work out because when my parents divorced I was about 14 and me, my mum and my sister ended up back in a renovated tenement building 3 closies along from where the family had started in life back in the late 1840’s. We still had an outside toilet as well as a WC and wash hand basin. The kitchen was a scullery that had a cooker, a gap to stand in and a small sink with water heater above it. We didn’t have a bath or a shower and we’d take turns having a cats dicht at the sink in the morning and a flannel bath using a plastic bucket in the evening. We’d have a bath at my grandparents once a week. We had a living room and one bedroom that we shared and we each took a turn at sleeping in beside my mum each night. Life was good.

Berries were easily available in Dundee because they grew just a couple of miles outside of town. But Ive always thought Ayrshire was as famous for berries as it was tor tatties.

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I absolutely love your recollection of this @Weepixie , I can almost see it in colour in my head!

glitterturd · 06/04/2025 17:57

I think this is why some of us look a bit 👀👀 at all this spread talk . It's been part and parcel of lives in certain parts for so long.

https://www.scotsman.com/heritage-and-retro/heritage/in-pictures-remembering-scotlands-berry-picking-summers-1414113

Mylovelygreendress · 06/04/2025 18:00

glitterturd · 06/04/2025 17:46

I can't believe the drivel that comes out of Meghan's mouth. Come on ...

Makes Pippa’s book look like Shakespeare!

JSMill · 06/04/2025 18:04

glitterturd · 06/04/2025 17:57

I think this is why some of us look a bit 👀👀 at all this spread talk . It's been part and parcel of lives in certain parts for so long.

https://www.scotsman.com/heritage-and-retro/heritage/in-pictures-remembering-scotlands-berry-picking-summers-1414113

I never picked raspberries but every autumn we would pick wild brambles. Dad used to make pies with them but our English next door neighbour would make amazing jam and give out jars to everyone in the street. Lovely memories. I live in England now and can’t get used to how much earlier the brambles are ripe so usually miss them.

Uricon2 · 06/04/2025 18:39

If she made a "How Not To Do It" guide it might be more real @glitterturd

@Weepixie , enjoyed reading that and I reckon if you did a podcast it would be about a million times more interesting than anything Meghan or Harry has put out so far. That's the thing, isn't it? Authenticity wins.

Reetpetitenot · 06/04/2025 19:07

Weepixie, what a great post.

myrtleWilson · 06/04/2025 19:38

@weepixie - loved your post - thank you. When you and @glitterturd use the phrase 'plain bread' - is this soda bread?

glitterturd · 06/04/2025 19:47

@myrtleWilson not soda bread . Plain bread is a white bread with a well fired top and bottom.

As ever launch
PigglyWigglyOhYeah · 06/04/2025 19:51

Just to let anyone know who might be interested - my Highgrove jam has arrived. It’s lovely (as most jam is, being made of fruit and sugar). It has the expected consistency - sits neatly on top of a scone and only drops out of a jam sandwich if too liberally applied and the sandwich is too enthusiastically squashed during consumption. I am currently running a further ‘control’ test with jam from Betty’s tearoom. (You’re lucky I’m prepared to take one for the team in this way.) It also has excellent ‘sitting politely on a scone’ properties and would definitely never be mistaken for banana-slathering coulis.

MissRoseDurward · 06/04/2025 19:54

"And through it all, I'm building a business of my own, and getting all sorts of practical advice along the way that I'm very excited to share with you.

I wonder if the people who offered her practical advice are now queueing up to beg her to remove all mention of them from the podcast.

Didn't most of us learn these top tips she comes out with at our mother's or granny's knee? You'd think she'd thought of something no-one had ever done befor.

mainecooncatonahottinroof · 06/04/2025 19:59

Spectre8 · 06/04/2025 10:02

Well it's pretty clear it's called a raspberry spread. So it's not sold as a jam.

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If you "call a turd by another name, it's still a turd"...

mainecooncatonahottinroof · 06/04/2025 20:04

CornishTeaTime · 06/04/2025 14:57

Im not buying that...that spread is literally runny why would she think that was ok when it had beem spoken about it being jam...starting with my jam...jam is my jam etc.

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So ultimately it has turned out that jam isn't in fact, her jam at all!

mainecooncatonahottinroof · 06/04/2025 20:08

Maybe she should flog waffles next.... she's an expert in waffling!

BemusedAmerican · 06/04/2025 20:11

I don't know anyone on the US who can't make a cup of tea. I even use loose leaf at home. Tea bags easier at work.

BemusedAmerican · 06/04/2025 20:12

I've never seen plain bread - I don't think we have it here.

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AtIusvue · 06/04/2025 20:12

glitterturd · 06/04/2025 19:47

@myrtleWilson not soda bread . Plain bread is a white bread with a well fired top and bottom.

The only bread for pieces

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Treeleaf11 · 06/04/2025 20:37

Is spread a common word in the US for watery jam does anyone know. I would associate it with a cheap margarine.

MissRoseDurward · 06/04/2025 20:46

Plain bread is a white bread with a well fired top and bottom.

Looks as if it would make really nice toast, to have with lots of butter. Or a bacon sarnie.

mainecooncatonahottinroof · 06/04/2025 20:51

MissRoseDurward · 06/04/2025 20:46

Plain bread is a white bread with a well fired top and bottom.

Looks as if it would make really nice toast, to have with lots of butter. Or a bacon sarnie.

We had it for toast every single morning growing up, toasted on just one side under the grill. Brother still does.

Onlyonekenobe · 06/04/2025 21:19

Weepixie · 06/04/2025 17:10

My family lived in the tenements of Dundee for generations after coming from Ireland to Glasgow in 1843 where they settled for a few years before moving on. And I can still remember as a child going to visit my great granny who still lived in the tenement where she’d brought up her family of 12. It was probably the early to mid 60’s and most of the building was by then taken up by the family. I can still recall the outside toilets and if my great grannies was in use I’d run down the stairs to my aunties or long the plattie to another aunty to use theirs. It was my grandparents who were the first in the family to have council house though, it must have been in the late 60’s and it was a brand new house on an estate built especially for people who were supervisors or above at work. My grandad was a supervisor in the Cash, the NCR, and worked there all of his life. My parents were the first in the family to buy a house when I was about 11 and prior to that we lived in council housing. But it’s funny how things work out because when my parents divorced I was about 14 and me, my mum and my sister ended up back in a renovated tenement building 3 closies along from where the family had started in life back in the late 1840’s. We still had an outside toilet as well as a WC and wash hand basin. The kitchen was a scullery that had a cooker, a gap to stand in and a small sink with water heater above it. We didn’t have a bath or a shower and we’d take turns having a cats dicht at the sink in the morning and a flannel bath using a plastic bucket in the evening. We’d have a bath at my grandparents once a week. We had a living room and one bedroom that we shared and we each took a turn at sleeping in beside my mum each night. Life was good.

Berries were easily available in Dundee because they grew just a couple of miles outside of town. But Ive always thought Ayrshire was as famous for berries as it was tor tatties.

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This is what’s known as genuine/authentic. Socially aware people can spot it at 20 paces. So much more interesting and life-enriching than literally all the words spoken/written by MM since she joined the RF all added together. I’ve never fully believed (or understood, really) pretty much anything she’s said or written, as I’ve always sensed an agenda or an ulterior motive.

Onlyonekenobe · 06/04/2025 21:22

Treeleaf11 · 06/04/2025 20:37

Is spread a common word in the US for watery jam does anyone know. I would associate it with a cheap margarine.

No, it isn’t 😀. Spread here is the same as spread in the UK when of the fruit variety: less firm than quince jelly, runnier than jam, pieces of identifiable fruit. (They don’t use the word “spread” for margarine though, but you might see it on things like (but not actually) that Biscoff stuff or a poncey choc/hazelnut thing like Nutella).

MrsFinkelstein · 06/04/2025 23:15

I'm starting to see TikTok reviews.

This one, well her face says it all, though she's trying desperately to be positive. Basically reiterates the DM review.

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNdLvTcLj/

TikTok - Make Your Day

https://www.tiktok.com/@that.107/video/7490071825758637334?_t=ZN-8vJmB7z0cBa&_r=1

Firealarm1414 · 06/04/2025 23:31

glitterturd · 06/04/2025 19:47

@myrtleWilson not soda bread . Plain bread is a white bread with a well fired top and bottom.

That looks like what is called batch bread in Ireland. Lovely toasted with lots of butter. Yum.

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