here is a couple pics of a few spring onions taken in the sixties, we used to pull about 500 dozen bunches every day for about 8 weeks, makes you wonder where they all went to. About 3shillings and sixpence a dozen bunches back then, just under 18 pence to those born in the seventies and beyond.
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Cor, thats a lot of hunions!
What a lot of onions - 500 dozen a day - must have been a big place your parents had. Richard. I love looking at old photos too.
Hi Richard, great to bump into you again, smashing picture Xx Jeannine
Extraordinary! These days we use spring onions so much in stirfrys etc. as a regular thing, but back then I reckon they only appeared on the side of the plate of Sunday teatime salads :o
Or cutting down the green stem, putting into cold water for a bit so they all went curly and looked pretty :o My mum never cooked with them either and the biggest one was always dad's.
;D
Oh! I remember the curly whirly trick - height of sophistication, that ;D
Quote from: EJ - Emma Jane on April 05, 2007, 23:05:57
Cor, thats a lot of hunions!
never mind the quantity look at the quality mine are always thin pathetic things they look like my regular onions