Sorry Mish I told 'porkies' only born in Firs brought up Platt Bridge, Hindley but mostly Atherton
Me mams family are true Westleythers though born and raised in Victoria St, pity me dad was a Hindley pie eater (though he did see sense in the 50's and changed to being a Leyther )

My mum used to encourage me to eat apples as a child by slicing them up and arranging them nicely on a plate which as a parent looking back was a great trick. Trouble is she coated them in bloody sugar!

My nan also use to put chips in my soup. Proper chip pan chips. The grease would float on top of the soup but they were bloody good!

I don't think I was even destined to be a scrum half.

Do people still own chip pans?

First had pobs at me nans house , think I was 4 or 5 at the time , small squares of bread sprinkled with sugar and served with hot milk over the top , simple idea but bloody lovely back then

Hmmmmmm. Chips and Oxtail soup and lots of bread and butter. Now yer talkin.

I'm going to give my Mother what for when I see her - she's a Westleyther and I'm a Wigan Roader so you'd think I'd be an expert in Pobs - I am officially 'deprived' now and when I see her I'm going to insist she makes me some pobs or she's going to be in big trouble. I'm probably going to need counselling now.

It used to be a taylors pastie and Oxtail soup for me n our kid

As a kid, I used to be given a mug of hot OXO. An OXO cube dissolved in boiling water and drunk out of a mug, with toast to dip in.

Ah now that's something we used to have a lot but we just used to rip up a slice of bread and put them all in the OXO then spoon it out.

Another of my favourites (and I still have it now) is to get a boiled egg and chop it up into a cup with a bit of butter. Chuck in a ripped up slice of bread and add a bit of salt and pepper - delish!!

While we're on about food, I remember back in the 1980's I used to get a pastie and a cup of beefy soup from the shop under the scoreboard. The soup was so thick you needed to slice it and was full of pieces of beef, delicious! I think the shop was run by the owner of the Picador at the time. Great days!

I still have that for a tasty snack, the chicken oxo is nice too, the veggy one not as nice. In fact I may take a flask of oxo with me on sunday