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Never heard of it, and whoever Glyn Hughes is, is talking poppycock, balderdash, utter claptrap, absolute piffle when he states, “Everybody in England was brou
by vr46 5y ago
Never heard of it, and whoever Glyn Hughes is, is talking poppycock, balderdash, utter claptrap, absolute piffle when he states,
“Everybody in England was brought up believing in brown Windsor soup,” says Glyn Hughes, author of The Lost Foods of England. “What is really, really strange is how deep this is into the British psyche. Walk up to anyone in the street and ask them about brown Windsor soup, and they’ll say that it was terrible and horrible but everybody ate it in the Victorian era.”
Complete bollocks.
- derefr 5y agoGlyn Hughes died 11 years ago, aged 76. And even then, he said "was brought up", not "is." He was presumably speaking about people brought up around the time he himself was — in the 1940s.
- vr46 5y agoA labour of love by the poor man rather than an exhaustively-researched magnum opus, and clearly the interesting focal point is how resilient complete nonsense can be.
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