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Good advice so why are people laughing?

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Oh, you've reminded me, Cakey. We used to have pigs trotters when I was a kid - I loved them! So fatty though, from my recollection. We also used to have something called chitterlings or chitlings - I found out later it was sheep's stomach or something, compressed in some kind of jelly. We sliced it and put it in sandwiches. It was very tasty and quite a treat! I've never found anyone else who's eaten this. I think it might have been a West Country thing. Anyone else here had this?

My mother and grandmother used to buy brawn (cooked pigs head stripped from skulland set in aspic) and pigs trotters. I remember them both as tasty foods. In Malta many years ago I had fried ice cream, which was a scoop of ice cream wrapped in a pancake and fried, an orange liqueur was added to the pan and then topped with grated chocolate. One of the yummiest desserts I have eaten, cooked at the table by a waiter. The ice cream was still coldwhen it was served.

Glo's cooking. Only tried it once.

Beth, Glo used to get pig's heads when butchers gave them away. One time she asked to clean one. It was in the sink and I poured boiling water over it. The eyes opened and frit me to death.

Accidental deep fried raw fish. Actually it tasted just the same as cooked! OK, I was newly married & I've learned a thing or two over the past decades. Mr Tom's fish was cooked, mine done separately looked done but only the batter was actually cooked, the fish inside it was merely defrosted & ice cold! I said nothing, just ate it anyway. Maybe that's why I like sushi, gravalax & smoked salmon. I will not eat tuna prepared as gravalax though. Tuna is only acceptable if it's in a tin & in brine.

I remember my little cousin trying to get me to eat 'fish sausage' which I didn't fall for, it was something I never saw anywhere only at her house, obviously it was fish roes but my aunt told the bairns it was fish sausages. They loved it, I knew there was no such thing as fish sausages, fingers yes, sausages no!

Pigs trotters and brawn made from goodness knows what part of the pig.

Sheep's brains on toast. I grew up in the North Devon countryside and as a school boarder this was served occasionally for breakfast. We were always told it was a variation of scrambled egg - all the other kids fell for it but as a country boy I knew what it was - and would eat it any time if it was still allowed - it's gorgeous

Roast pig’s head. Very nice, actually, once you get over it sitting on the carving tray, looking at you.

Ghormeh Sabzi, a Persian herb stew loaded with dried limes, fresh herbs, and spinach, simmered in a pot with chunks of tender beef or lamb and red kidney beans. I think it's weird as both the meal and the herbs used are called by the same name, but as I can never remember the names of meals I ask "is it the one with grass cuttings?" as in my opinion that's exactly how it looks, very fine cuttings.

Fried🍌plantains, stuffed💗hearts, 🐖trotters, garlic🦑squid, baby🐙octopus🍃salad, boiled🍆aubergine, & fresh ripe figs, to name but a few, thankfully not all at the same time. ... EWW

Had a barracuda on the beach that I’d caught once.

I had a dish at a restaurant in London that was pear ice cream encased in a thin sugar crust painted to look like a pear. As well as looking amazing, it was lovely. Also had the tasting menu at L’enclume which was epic and nothing tasted like it looked.

Espada (scabbard fish) and grilled banana. A Madeiran speciality.

Very tasty it was too.

Well it was H C Anderson who would have been over 100 but .....

HC Andersen is over 100

So I'm the winner, so far, in the Golden Oldie competition. I'm sure that I can't be the oldest PMPer though. Anyone else going to admit to being a pre-war baby?

1970.....youngster!!! Body doesn't think so though.

No chance, born 1955. Husband was born 1938, though with his father already in the RN and then at war, he didn’t get to meet him until about 1943, I think.

Do I count? 1943

A "youngster" here born in 1952

11th anniversary of D-Day (Operation Neptune), so still youngish.

I'm a mere child born in 1950.

I arrived soon after the war, during that very cold Winter

I wasn't even a twinkle then, I have a photo of my mum and dad (in his uniform holding my year-old oldest brother) in 1939, they went on to have 8 of us, a baby every 2 years for 16 years...

I can't quite make it that far back Hopeful2B. I was born during the war (as the date above shows) but do remember some things of that time.

Petra

Shy boy, Great Wall of China, Christ the Reedeemer statue, Petra, Chichen Itza, Macchu Picchu

Only the Colosseum.

Chichen Itza. Hoping to visit Petra next year.

Taj Mahal and Coliseum. What else is on the list?

Watching an old episode of Millionaire, a woman was asked which was earliest. Finding the Titanic was one of the possible answers. I heard her say it sank years earlier but was only found recently "maybe because it's so small". I felt she'd missed one tiny little point about the Titanic.

The Colosseum.

Which is colossal, how's that for a coincidence?

They are described as architectural and natural wonders. Which are natural ?

Had to look them up! Only Taj Mahal and the Coliseum so far. Going to Great Wall in March. Cross I never went to Petra when living in Saudi. My son has been to Chitzen itza and Machu pichu