So, we’ve just finished dinner – a courgette and ham quiche with green beans, followed by a pudding of tinned pineapple slices.<\/p>\n
But I need to give you some background to today’s meal.<\/p>\n
The late MIL was a little girl during the Second World War. France at that time was, of course, occupied; and as her family were tenant farmers, they received a lot of unwanted attention from the Wehrmacht, who confiscated the majority of the food. MIL was the youngest of ten children, and I think this scarcity of food affected her psychologically.<\/p>\n
She had the tendency to hide food in the oddest of places. Open a cupboard full of clothes, and there, lurking underneath a moth-eaten shirt, would be a packet of biscuits. Packets of sweets would appear amongst the best china cups, and hidden in the rabbit shed you would find a tin of strawberry jam or a bottle of wine.<\/p>\n
After the late MIL passed away, LSS attempted a major clearout of rubbish, and many food items came to light. Unfortunately most of the dry goods like packets of biscuits were either mouldy, or just stale and inedible.<\/p>\n
Well, not everything was discovered. Last week LSS found two items which had been exceptionally well-hidden, and we have just finished eating them this evening – to wit, a Kilner jar of green beans harvested soon after Chernobyl (bottled September 1987); and a tin of Kenyan pineapple slices – “consume before December 1988”. Well, the tin was a bit rusty. But only on the outside. The pineapples tasted fine! And the green beans tasted – well, like green beans normally taste. A bit tingly on the tongue though.<\/p>\n
Bless her cotton socks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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