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This is one of a pair of cow shoes worn by moonshiners, in the USA during Prohibition, to hide their

tracks from Prohibition agents. The cow shoe is a strip of metal to which is tacked a wooden block

carved to resemble the hoof of a cow, which may be strapped to the human foot. A man shod with a

pair of them would leave a trail resembling that of a cow.

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Things you don’t see anymore (times 2) A 1945 photo of my aunt, wearing a turban and scrubbing her front door step on Queens Grove, Meadows. She dug her heels in and refused to move when the

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This is one of a pair of cow shoes worn by moonshiners, in the USA during Prohibition, to hide their

tracks from Prohibition agents. pair of them would leave a trail resembling that of a cow.

If they fitted the cows with a couple of pairs of Reebocks the Agents would go off in a different direction ? :)

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I mst keep my eyes open more !

I must admit i don't go looking for it !

Much as I hate to quote myself, I actually found it right next to the tinned Pineapple on Sunday, of course I had to buy a tin !

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Seems to me that condensed milk is one of those binary substances - people either love it, or hate it, with no middle ground. No offence to the "love it" group, but I am firmly in the "hate it" camp - possibly because my mum would use it in tea if we had no fresh milk - and it tasted TERRIBLE!

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I seem to have a recollection of somebody showing us how to boil a tin of condensed milk (Can't remember how long for) then opening it , and it had more or less solidified and was eaten as a pudding on its own.

I wouldn't recommend trying it myself as I'd probably blow up the kitchen !

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I've boiled a can of condensed milk and used it afterwards for banoffee pie.

Ah banoffee pie !! My joint favourite along side Tiramasou .

The best Banoffee pie I ever had was over in Ireland about 8 years ago, and you can't beat the tiramasou that SWMBO makes (You can't drive or barely stand up after eating it either !!)

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the wife with your slippers warming by the fire and your tea(hot meal) ready to be dished up within 5 minutes of walking through the door,and then she would go out and bring a jug of ale back from the beeroff,oops what am i saying,wheres my hard hat

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we had sixpence in our christmas pudding but allways wrapped in greaseproof paper.

as for condenced milki was a love it eat it by the spoon full and on bread and butter.

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And bread and butter was always called 'bread and butter' even if it was marge

We had bread and butter but on festive occasions bread and REAL butter :)

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Speaking of wash & Brush up, I once saw a lovely cartoon. A man wash washing in a gents toilet sink and the attendant was standing behind him with a wicked grin and a broom handle pointing straight at his ars*. I thought it was so funny that I laughed 'til I stopped :D

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