Blended Food
12:10 Friday 22 Jun 07
The new thing in my daughter’s lives is a place called Shakeit Baby. You wander in and ask for a Ginger Cake milkshake. So they drop ginger cake, milk, icecream and ice into a blender, blast it to mush and give it to you. Bakewell Tart milkshake? No problem. Oreo cookies / Any cookies ? Just lob them in. Take anything in and they will blend it. I’m surprised they don’t call it “CaloriesRUs”. So D has bought a present for a friend’s birthday. A blender and some bakewell tarts :)
I think the most adventurous I got when I was a kid was Banana milkshakes. And popcorn! Big pan, little oil, heat, add prescribed amount of popcorn. Look scornfully at almost empty base of pan, examine packet and determine there must have been a printing mistake. Only happened once - it was like something out of Fantasia. Everyone must do that though.
Bacon and banana toasties was a short-lived - yet tasty - experience, as was toffee in various exotic flavours.
Food….. school food. Things I remember:
- always wanting and eating the skin off the custard
- a strange brown and green sponge pudding
- a vile thing called curried eggs
- those funny shaped glasses on the tables that only ever exist in school dinner halls
- watching that no-one has unscrewed the salt and balanced the lid back on
- looking inside the water jug before pouring a drink
- being part of a scam where we forged dinner tickets and sold them cheap
- having to run from classrooms far away to get there as soon as possible
- dumplings. Here I am years later and I still don’t like them.
A place that shaped my tastes for years….
