Lunchtime work food

[raymondo1952 11]

While working in the steel works we used to take a mashing can .When it got empty this was afternoon shift when waiting for bars to heat up ,we sent the cans to the pub to have a pint put in them also you could get a pass out to go for a drink then return to do the work Wouldn't happen today

[Ontarian1981 10]

While working in the steel works we used to take a mashing can .When it got empty this was afternoon shift when waiting for bars to heat up ,we sent the cans to the pub to have a pint put in them also you could get a pass out to go for a drink then return to do the work Wouldn't happen today

 

Some breweries gave out free beer at lunchtime to employees. Worked as a contractor in some power stations in Lancashire and they had clubs where you could buy beer adjacent to the canteen.

 

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While working in the steel works we used to take a mashing can .When it got empty this was afternoon shift when waiting for bars to heat up ,we sent the cans to the pub to have a pint put in them also you could get a pass out to go for a drink then return to do the work Wouldn't happen today

 

Mashing can lol. I think mashing tea is a south Yorkshire term. When I first came to Canada I was sharing my house with a young lad from Middlesborough until my wife and daughter arrived. We were both on afternoon shift, so both home in the morning.When I get up ,he was already up I said "has tha mashed". He said " yer don't have any taters." Apparently, although a Yorkshireman himself, he had never heard that term for making tea before.

Edited May 21, 2018 by Ontarian1981

[St Petre 85]

Some breweries gave out free beer at lunchtime to employees. Worked as a contractor in some power stations in Lancashire and they had clubs where you could buy beer adjacent to the canteen.

 

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Mashing can lol. I think mashing tea is a south Yorkshire term. When I first came to Canada I was sharing my house with a young lad from Middlesborough until my wife and daughter arrived. We were both on afternoon shift, so both home in the morning.When I get up ,he was already up I said "has tha mashed". He said " yer don't have any taters." Apparently, although a Yorkshireman himself, he had never heard that term for making tea before.

Wonder what the Middlesbrough term for 'Mashed)/ mashing is (hello Mooks). I worked as a contractor in (what was then) Lancashire a few times : Manchester, Oldham, Bolton etc and they were always going to 'Brew', tea of course.

[Padders 2,850]

I started my first job at Firth Browns in 1960, mi mam used too give me 2 shillings a day for my dinner..............Dripping cake 3d... 10 park drive....and a bit of change left over.

[raymondo1952 11]

I still have dripping today brought up on it

[choogling 14]

we used to toast what ever sandwich we had for pack up on the salamander with a welding rod toasting fork. Dripping is my favourite toastie done this way..

[St Petre 85]

we used to toast what ever sandwich we had for pack up on the salamander with a welding rod toasting fork. Dripping is my favourite toastie done this way..

 

'Salamander' ?

[Ontarian1981 10]

'Salamander' ?

 

He means an oven or open hearth furnace, not the lizard lol

[choogling 14]

'Salamander' ?

 

salamanders were used as space heaters in large buildings basically it was a container ,imagine a beer barrel cut about 1 third up and half filled with fuel , on top of that was a sort of lid with a chimney attached and a pipe from the air gap on top of the paraffin or diesel fuel to about halfway up the chimney, the fuel was set on fire using a rolled up news paper, it would use up to 5 gallons a day. The factory inspector eventually banned them after reports of them toppling over ,ours was screwed down.