On 07/05/2015 07:38, Jim GM4DHJ ... wrote:
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On 06/05/15 14:19, Jim GM4DHJ ... wrote:
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On 06/05/2015 12:13, Bod wrote:
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For a start, we had fresh milk delivered everyday and people didn't
normally stock up with a week's or month's supply of perishable
foods,
like we tend to today. I remember mum shopping every few days for
something or other.

I remember being sent out to buy something almost every day, at an age
when kids are probably kept indoors these days, once I had been
trained
how to recognise whether things like eggs and fish were fresh.

that was in the days when hens eggs were white.......



some still are - check out the supermarket...

nobody wants white eggs as in the past brown eggs were perceived as
special...probably just a colour in the feed though .....


No, it's the breed of hens.

interesting thanks .....


Yup and some breeds even produce blue/green and even speckly eggs.