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Ohhhhhhhhhh fancy!
As I suspected. Posh.
Exactly. 😛 I have a mate from east Glasgow and his version of roasted cheese was white bread with cheese slice on top, under the grill.
I never heard the term roasted cheese – maybe that was for the proper posh folk which I suspect some of you were. I mean did blue collar folk raise panthers?
Roastit cheese here, but I dunno where it originated from, mum from Bridge of Allan, Dad an ayrshireman. And it was always cheddar, never plastic cheese! Plastic cheese was too dear!
Blue collar is an american thing, There's nothing in Ayrshire but working class, all of us! 🙂
Just looked, cheapest cheese slices from Aldi are almost half the price per kilo of the cheapest cheddar. So now who's the posho!
I lived in Ayr for 3 years – the farm staff finished every sentence with ‘ken.
just re-read the way I wrote what you replied to - I was saying not in Glasgow, you'll need to go to Ayrshire or travel East to hear Ken being used commonly. Probably didn't come across like that.
I never heard the term roasted cheese – maybe that was for the proper posh folk which I suspect some of you were. I mean did blue collar folk raise panthers?
Roasted cheese is definitely not posh. I'm from Glasgow and would call it toasted cheese (but frequently heard it called cheese on toast), I'd never heard roasted cheese before meeting my wife (from much closer to Edinburgh -- she's definitely NOT posh. I'm not sure if that's the local lingo in Lothians or if it comes from her mother's side who is originally from Ayrshire; I assume these things probably are more likely to pass within families rather than localities.
Tongs ya bass.
Just looked, cheapest cheese slices from Aldi are almost half the price per kilo of the cheapest cheddar. So now who’s the posho!
Not in 1985 they weren't cheaper!
stavaigan
That takes me back!
I mean did blue collar folk raise panthers?
It would seem so.
I'm a scheme rat made good.
Nobeerinthefridge
Not in 1985 they weren’t cheaper!
aye new fangled american cheese. 😆 Probly didnae even see a cheese slice till '88! 😆
aye new fangled american cheese. 😆 Probly didnae even see a cheese slice till ’88! 😆
Exactly, was only the folk in spam valley that had such 'luxuries' as fake cheese! haha
My pal in Arden which is hardly spam valley did in the mid 70s. Me the posh boy from muirend had never seen it before
There’s nothing in Ayrshire but [s]working class[/s] scum, all of us! 🙂
FTFY
I’d a job in the 90s reading meters in Drungin and ither pairts o Ayrshire. However I really did have job reading the meters in Drungin some wee nyaff had burnt a the street signs and I had nae idea where the f.. I wis. So I went and got another job.
One of my workmates used to work for the council electrical department, he was doing lamp posts in Kilmarnock when he spotted a postie on his bike. The guy would cycle to the end of the path, jump off, wheel it up the steps, post the letters, wheel it back down, jump back on and repeat. This went on for a few days and eventually curiosity got the better of him so he stopped him asked him why he was doing that. Turned out he'd lost three bikes in the scheme (can't remember if it was that one or new farm) already that month and was on a written warning.
I used to have a milk round in Ardrossan SK, the flats behind Glasgow street down at the marina, Montgomery street, had no numbers, as they'd all been pulled off. I got to the stage I just left milk at anyones door!
I’m from Glasgow and would call it toasted cheese (but frequently heard it called cheese on toast),
Was beginning to think I was alone with this one - definitely toasted cheese in this house.
Does anyone have a rough estimate of how many different spam valleys there are in the area? The one I know of is in Lenzie..... but suspiciously close to Kirkie
Spam valley to me was always Bearsden / Milgavie. Kirkie was not when I lived there ( my family moved from Muirend to strathblane to Kirkintilloch) but that being 45 years ago i guess the demographic could have changed
Spam Valley to me was were the folk desperate to look posh moved to and spent all their money on a mortgage so only had money left for spam not real meat. So Bearsden / Milgavie but not strathblane as they were even posher. Kirkie when i was there was pretty working class I thought
Spam valley was never a town, it was generally an area of town, a bridging area that folk from cooncil hooses moved to and looked down their noses at their old neighbours. It was generally a Wimpey type estate (they'd never call it a scheme!).
It's never really changed, the new estates on the edge of town I grew up in are full of folks that have now 'made it' 🙂
mashr - spam valley isn't specific to an area, its just any area perceived by its neighbours as having overpriced housing (such that you could only afford to eat spam if you actually lived there).
Yup, hence the Spam Valley in Lenzie, and I think I’d heard of Milngavie being one too. Can’t just be an East Dumbartonshire thing though?
Can’t just be an East Dumbartonshire thing though?
Definitely not. Ditto, corned beef county, fur coat and nae knickers etc.
Spam valley was never a town, it was generally an area of town, a bridging area that folk from cooncil hooses moved to and looked down their noses at their old neighbours. It was generally a Wimpey type estate (they’d never call it a scheme!).
Yeah but my Ayrshire town was so shit we had to borrow a spam valley from the next town over. There was no room for spam valleys in Stevenston the nearest was Whitehurst Park in Kilwinning!
This thread is nearly as hard to read as Trainspotting
Yeah but my Ayrshire town was so shit we had to borrow a spam valley from the next town over. There was no room for spam valleys in Stevenston the nearest was Whitehurst Park in Kilwinning!
They managed to wedge one in at the edge by Ardeer!
I thought folk from that end aspired to Ardrossan though.
OT: Surely that originally came from Hawaii 5-0?
Aye, the reference was that Hawaii is the 50th state.
I thought folk from that end aspired to Ardrossan though.
Ooft, the Three Toons Riviera, a marina and an ASDA, a man can dream.
Growing up I'm pretty sure most sensible folk in the "Boatem End" of Stevenston aspired to be anywhere else.
To be fair, I spent a bit of time down there during the summer and its a lot nicer than i remember. Its got a genuinely lovely beach and a lot of new housing has replaced the horrible stuff I remember from growing up.
I wouldn't say its fully gentrified but the locals have (mostly) stopped mugging the gentry.
Ah, I'd never though about the regional variations on toasted cheese before. For me it was always roasted when my friends talked about it but cheese on toast when my mum made it (from Aberdeenshire)
leffeboy
The Gow
The Gow
The actual Gow?
the actual Gow, the one and only
My first ever real construction job was the tennis pavilion in McKirdy Park
My first ever real construction job was the tennis pavilion in McKirdy Park
I'll have to google stalk it. I think I would only have gone out that end of town if if I was cycling to Hamilton
All this fechtin o'er a wee bit o spam n cheese we need more lines to toughen up
On the East coast it was always toasted Cheese best ever fast food wi plain bread and there was/is a spam valley in Kirkcaldy built by Wimpey same crappy houses wi London bricks
Sorry, only spotted you wanted more to translate. This really could do with some attention. The four youngsters (15-22 in age) have got halfway up a hill towards the reservoirs and are about to get ready to play a trick on the kidnappers to get the ransom money back. Josh has been folded up in one of those trailers you put behind your bike and put your toddler in.
“Tom and Josie wait here. No need for ye to cycle all the way up. I’ll take Josh up and get him in position and then I’ll come back and let ye know what we’re going to do. Tom, the bike please. Not dragging this nugget up the hill.” Jack said and laughed as Josh tried to extract himself from the trailer.
have got halfway up a hill towards the reservoirs and are about to get ready to play a trick on the kidnappers to get the ransom money back.
Christ this is exciting. Not sure I could fold into a a kids trailer though.
Tom, the bike please.
Please?
No kid for Glasgow would ever be called Tom, Tommy or Tam yes, but not Tom. Reservoir would be the dam or the rezzy.
Geez the bike Tom.
Actually would he be called Tom?
Tam?
Geez the bike Tom.
Gie's that bike aff ye, Tam
Maybe you'd be better just basing it round Milngavie, in which case you could have them speaking in that annoying ubiquitous west end/swallows and amazons accent.
Tom and Josie wait here
Tam...Josie...Youse two stay doon here.
Maybe you’d be better just basing it round Milngavie, in which case you could have them speaking in that annoying ubiquitous west end/swallows and amazons accen
Then they'd have e-bikes and going all the way up the hill wouldn't be a problem.
I'm just astonished that they were able to rustle up a bike trailer for emergency transport of a teenager but not an extra bike.
Perchy to play Jack, Josh, Josie in the film adaptation?
Fur the last fuxxin time ya cheesy wee bellend get aff the fuxxin bike
Perchy to play Jack, Josh, Josie in the film adaptation?
Wouldn't work. Ah canny ride a bike.
Edit - a gie up
a gie up
Ah gie up 😉
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