remember when life used to be nice in Jamaica - part 2

[Q3210]

Re: remember when life used to be nice in Jamaica - part 2

You gots to mix the gully beans with ackee and salt fish and nyam it down wid fried dumplins and green bananas.
also have a jug of `wash or a cup of tea or coffee.

[ackeegirl]

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tawking bout meking dally clothes o/ yuh know how many aprons and bonnets my dally used to have [img]/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] and dem mi learn fi mek stuffed dolls! I had a field day!

Susumba [img]/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] no matter how dey dressed it up...mi couldn't eat it..mi used to pick dem out and put dem in mi hand miggle until after supper and dem mi go outside and bury dem [img]/forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img] I never told them thanks or that was a nice dinner..so mi nuh know why dem tink seh mi did like it [img]/forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img] mi sure seh it did "good fi me" as that was the response to everything you're supposed to eat that you didn't like [img]/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

the jimbilins mi know were green also and sour nuh rathid!

MG mi understand di working hard part..mi know seh nuh werk deh bout fi yuh pon di board and in yuh real job....but a life...come visit whenever yuh find time..we'll be here. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

Yuh know dat mention about the thread and the button....well whenever mi go have mi eyebrows waxed, dem twist di thread di same way we used to do as pickney and use that method to help clean up di fine hair on the brows. Amazing!

When mi turned 11 mi bought mi first True Confession magazine and was reading it pon di step when mi feel one big rahtid kuff inna mi back and di magazine disappear! dem seh mi was force ripe and dat mi want fi turn big too soon all now mi nuh know which pawt di magazine went.

[britisha]

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***LOL*** mi tink seh a mi wan who used to pick hout di susumba frrom the food and hide it to throw out. Hif dem catch mi throwing away food, and susumba wasn't di only thing. Mi nevah like Coco eida...the ground provision that is. My parents would always be repeating:

I must not throw upon the floor
The crumb I cannot eat
For many a hungry little one
Would think it quite a treat...

Hantil dis day, every time mi throw out food even when it is the proper thing to do if it stale and rancid, their words come back to haunt mi, and sometimes mi feel guilty about hunger in the world. Mi noh think parents should give their chirren things to eat, if the child doesn't like it period... [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] Of all my siblings, I was the most finicky eater, until today....Bwooouy a tel yuh.

[DC]

Re: remember when life used to be nice in Jamaica - part 2

Originally posted by ackeegirl:
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When mi turned 11 mi bought mi first True Confession magazine and was reading it pon di step when mi feel one big rahtid kuff inna mi back and di magazine disappear! dem seh mi was force ripe and dat mi want fi turn big too soon all now mi nuh know which pawt di magazine went. [/qb]

LOL***

Once again, another wonderful thread..If I may interrupt this lovely chatter for a sec..On this True Confesion thing..

In my High School they had random "raids' where prefects, class monitors and monitress conducted a school wide search in the classrooms for True Confessions, Mills and Boones and other books and magazines that were banned from school. It was quite a commotion when the news leaked that the "raid" is on. Students would scramble to hide all the contrabands. Students sat on books or threw books out the windows and after school picked them up. One of their favorite place was under the platform where the teacher's desk was placed. When the search was over and the raiders were gone, the pile of books underneath that platform was enough to open a True Confessions Library [img]/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] . But then those students became prefects, head boy or head girl and they knew the tricks..

Thats my fondest memory of True Confessions [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

**back to the discussion**

[barosa]

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BWOY OH BWOY!! You girls had it real GOOD with all those adult magazines. Its a good ting in my day, dat PLAYBOY & PENTHOUSE magazines were not around because I and many of my classmates would have been EXPELLED. We had comics like Flash Gordon etc, etc, but real variety and good stuff were sadly lacking. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[ackeegirl]

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britisha, mi neva like cocoa and still don't eat it ..mi neva used to like boil breadfruit and still don't eat it..it haffi roast or fry [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

yuh lucky dem used to tell why yuh nuh fi waste food inna rhyme format..all mi used to hear was dat "it good fi me" and "yuh know how many children don't have anything to eat right now?" mi was always tempted to say "why don't you tek wah me have and give it to dem"..but mi know betta. Never liked okra and still don't [img]/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] me and you picky alike [img]/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Silent River, True Confessions used to full up mi school bag..mi used to carry dem to school and lend and swap with other girls and I did become Prefect yuh nuh..DWL! ...i guess mi did get careless and start read it in di open pon di step at home...dat was the last mi see of it.

barosa, mi nuh believe seh you guys didn't have someting fi read like how we had True Confessions..dere must have been someting...and mi nah go stop until mi find out wah it did name [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] mi find it hard to believe dat it was only Marvel Comics oonu had *squinting up mi leff eye and eyes barosa*

[barosa]

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Originally by A/G:

barosa, mi nuh believe seh you guys didn't have someting fi read like how we had True Confessions..dere must have been someting...and mi nah go stop until mi find out wah it did name mi find it hard to believe dat it was only Marvel Comics oonu had *squinting up mi leff eye and eyes barosa*


A/G, ...you seem to forget that my time as a youth was well before your time, maybe a decade or two! In my time there was practically nothing! I mean nothing! we had to rely on each other to learn what was WHAT. By the time all those informative magazines appeared on the newsstands I was already a "self-taught" functionary.

I can remember getting hold of a tattered copy of a "sexology" periodical, about the size of Readers Digest from one of my classmates. But that was all! We earlier guys were intelectually starved, I would say. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[britisha]

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Helloooooh, Helloooooh!! A whey oono deh? Ackeegirl, yuh deh 'bout?

Me did a wait fi si hif anniboddi else have anni confessions about "True Confession." Mi memba when di vendors used to sell the used copies LOL LOL around Orange Street near Barry Street...but at that time mi did older and mi did too busy fi read dem, plus mi cuddn afford dem. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] (no...not that kind a busy.) [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

Mi neva had any schooldays episodes with reading cert'in magazines, however mi memba when "Lady Chatterly's Lover was the rave among some of the teens, and mi did hear seh it was banned from the Island..(mi noh know how chrue dat was.)

AG mi nain eat bwoile bresshie eida; however mi grew to acquire di taste as an adult, but not fi coco.

[britisha]

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What 'bout Peppa Pot? Anni a oono did like dat? Again, not as a child, but now I don't mind it once in a blue moon. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[Q3210]

Re: remember when life used to be nice in Jamaica - part 2

Yu mean peppa pot with calaloo?
And dumplin and sweet `taters?
Dat was nice.

Comic books small like Reader`s Digest but not as thick were abundant in my times as a boy.
War comics, about the glory of America over Japan and the world over Nazi Germany.
However,never did like Dick Tracy.

[DC]

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Originally posted by barosa:
[qb] Originally by A/G:
I can remember getting hold of a tattered copy of a "sexology" periodical, about the size of Readers Digest from one of my classmates. But that was all! We earlier guys were intelectually starved, I would say. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] [/qb]

ooomy..Intellectually starved....DWL** If I had known you then, I would have lent you a copy of my True Confession [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] ...

[barosa]

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By DC:

ooomy..Intellectually starved....DWL** If I had known you then, I would have lent you a copy of my True Confession ...

And if I knew where you were, I would have certainly come over and borrowed it. DWL....But what would your parents think? or could it be, that you would propose a clandestine location? [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

Q, dem kind a soup yu talking bout bring back memories an mek mi mout wa-ata. I remember dem use to mix up "engine kale" ( not too shure how it spell) wid de callaloo in peppa pot soup. I had no problems wid coco. Young breadfruit was nice along wid de dumplins dem and de end part of the pigs tails. My mout is watering as I write. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[SandiF]

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barosa, the "engine kale" is "indian kale". Btw, Grace Kennedy Products now package "Indian Kale" in a powder form to be used in pepperpot soup mix.

The days when times were hard, we used to pick wild Coco, Indian Kale and green banana and use it in the pepperpot soup.

I don't know about you guys, but growing up, we didn't have the luxury of gas stove, much less oil stove (that came later on in life), it was the trusty little coal pots. Just go dung the road and buy couple crocus bag of coal from "Coalie". :lawd!: We used to make a nice Sweet Potatoe Pudding on that little coal pot, man, I can almost smell the delicious scent wafting in the air ... [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

Originally posted by barosa:
[qb] By DC:

ooomy..Intellectually starved....DWL** If I had known you then, I would have lent you a copy of my True Confession ...

And if I knew where you were, I would have certainly come over and borrowed it. DWL....But what would your parents think? or could it be, that you would propose a clandestine location? [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

Q, dem kind a soup yu talking bout bring back memories an mek mi mout wa-ata. I remember dem use to mix up "engine kale" ( not too shure how it spell) wid de callaloo in peppa pot soup. I had no problems wid coco. Young breadfruit was nice along wid de dumplins dem and de end part of the pigs tails. My mout is watering as I write. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] [/qb]

[mountaingal]

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doing my best Homer Simpson impression

Mmmmmmmm....pepperpot soup.....

[barosa]

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Thanks SandiF for that clarification, "indian kale" it is. As a boy, you can understand that I had more interest in the niceness of the soup and how it went down than knowing the names of the ingredients. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] My belly use to come first, as you can also understand the priority of young boys in dose days [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

Yes SandiF, I remembered those cast iron pot stoves. We had about three of them varying in sizes depending on how big a pot was to be used or a bread fruit that was to be roasted. I remembered that it my job to light the fire to start the coal burning. I became a pro at it and even in buyin the right kind of charcoal.

All I can say now without much regrets, I know now, that I really enjoyed those days. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]