Tea Time questions.

Being friends with several Americans I've come to realise our eating habits are very different.
 
The Tin Roof Sundae is a standard flavor in many of our "boxed" ice creams
we get from a "large" stores like Aldi or Food Lion, big stores that
carry pretty much everything..
 
cciaffone said:
The Tin Roof Sundae is a standard flavor in many of our "boxed" ice creams
we get from a "large" stores like Aldi or Food Lion, big stores that
carry pretty much everything..
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Back in the '50s, any sundae was a DIY project, usually a simplified version of the soda fountain creation. My father made his with store brand vanilla ice cream, ditto chocolate sauce and salted redskin peanuts.
 
We in the UK have a Knickerbocker Glory which I guess is the same . Where I live there is an Ice Cream parlour that has been selling Ice Cream for over 100 years and in there is its sadly known as the divorced dad's Sunday special because Sunday was the designated day that Divorced dads saw their kids and they always took them to this parlour for the biggest ice cream as a treat.


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Thanks for the link Rick no not a great deal of difference between a Tin Roof Sundae and a Brit Knickerbocker Glory . Is there a story as to why it was named a "Tin Roof" Sundae why Tin Roof ? Thanks in advance for any explanation.
 
I had to look up on wiki to trace the origins of the name. Seems around the 1890's ice cream soda shops were gaining in popularity. Some places around the U.S. had 'blue laws' banning soda from being served on Sundays as being 'too frilly'. So the soda shops got a creative work around and served up interesting ice cream combinations without the soda by using different flavored syrups instead.

One variation says a Mr. Sonntag from from Plainfield, Illinois created the first dish at the urging of his patrons wanting something different. His German last name meaning Sunday in English was transferred to Sundae as the name of his new dish.

The Tin Roof Sundae was created in Potter, Nebraska and named after either the tin roof on their building or the stable across the street. Interesting how ice cream / soda shops seemed to have started in pharmacies and drug stores.
 
It's weird how what laws where made and a lot of them are still in effect. I think I read somewhere once that it was against the law to buy a bible on a Sunday but you could quite legally buy pornography!
 
Captain, I can imagine Benny Hill having some fun with the Knickerbocker Glory name in a skit.
Pearl, there are some bizarre laws that really need to be purged from the books.
 
I would expect that Benny would have used in one of his many shows without doubt . There is another comedian noted for his one liner jokes that Dick would be proud to deliver most of which draw groans . He is Tim Vine and I think he holds some sort of record for the number of jokes told in an hour or something like that .Just to give you a flavour here are a few and he has indeed included one about the said dessert.

“I’d like to start with the chimney jokes – I’ve got a stack of them. The first one is on the house.”

“This policeman came up to me with a pencil and a piece of very thin paper. He said, ‘I want you to trace someone for me.'”

“I saw this advert in a window that said: ‘Television for sale, £1, volume stuck on full.’ I thought, ‘I can’t turn that down.'”

“I went down my local ice-cream shop, and said ‘I want to buy an ice-cream’. He said ‘Hundreds & thousands?’ I said ‘We’ll start with one.’ He said ‘Knickerbocker glory?’ I said ‘I do get a certain amount of freedom in these trousers, yes.'”

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The Young Ones well that's a nostalgia trip so sad that Rick Mayall died so young , the other three survive but are no longer "Young" far from it . It was a ground breaking show all traditional comedies went out the window one of the writers Ben Elton famously was angrily snubbed by Ronnie Barker but he probably is in the same position at 63 as Ronnie B was then, though his Upstart Crow is just brilliant and is as ground breaking as a the Young Ones .

Featuring a band in the middle of what is essentially an anarchic sitcom was perhaps the biggest change remember Motorhead playing Ace of Spades and of course Dexy's . The latter were from Birmingham and so they just featured in the closing ceremony for the 2022 Commonwealth Games Kevin Rowland [his band and concept] is now 69 :oops: As a bit of an aside I was on Holiday in Alicante back in 2015 and in the Castle there is a room of local photos and whilst walking passed them I did a double take because there is a picture of a group of Fishermen and the guy on the left when you view it could be him . I sent a copy to him via twitter but he didn't reply .

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Peripheral said:
It's simple Rick. I'm working class, breakfast, dinner, tea and supper or, eat when you are hungry:21:. What the upper class do I don't know:confused:.
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I'm with you on that one too Peri.

8.00am Breakfast (or whenever if, I have a lie in and nothing to do that morning)
1.00pm Dinner, although we used to call it Lunch at school.
3.00pm A drink to keep us hydrated, especially in Summer (coffee, squash etc...)
5.00pm Tea
9-9.30pm Supper, at "Quiet time". (Quite time being an hour or so before bed when all the technology (computers, mobile phones etc.) are switched off to help us settle down for a good night's sleep)
 
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