bobbins...

[Nicos]

You're right Flum!!...I just had a Google!

...and good ol' Hugh FW has a recipe for sheeps lungs...pig must be much the same!!??


ewww.....


AND....do you know what????
We went for a lovely walk the other day and came home to an open wood fire and a bowl of home made soup and bread...ah bliss I here you say....until I asked my OH what something was- and passed it over on my spoon ( no specks on ya see)...yup- was a green and yellow fully cooked caterpillar


It's not my week is it???

[Glutton4...]

Eeeeeeewwwwwww! Thanks Nicos!

[taff]

Same thing happened to me with broccoli - clabrese- I haven't grown it since....

[taff]

nice touch on the bartering too

[Polly Fouracre]

A "bobbin" to us is something nice brought back from an outing. As in " be good and I'll bring you back a bobbin"
I haven't a clue where this came from though.

[Rocketron]

bobbins Noun. Rubbish, nonsense, useless. Manchester rhyming slang for rotten, from bobbins of cotton. E.g."That meal was bobbins, next time we'll eat at home."
This, as a southerner, I had always understood the term.
The things you learn on here....

[Two_Sheds]

Same thing happened to me with broccoli - clabrese- I haven't grown it since....

I remember finding HALF a caterpillar in HALF an M&S cauli once: I posted it back to the store I was that unimpressed. I had also had a bunch of black maggots in a banana from the same store so was feeling a bit hard done by
(being a vegetarian, and not wishing to consider where the other half now was)

[Patchninja]

Creep out under cover of darkness and bury it in the field How vile!!!
Last time we bought 1/2 a pig here, the lady handed me an eyeball! When I squeaked that I didn't really need it, she just dropped it into her apron pocket. aarrgghh

[Keith2202]

bobbins Noun. Rubbish, nonsense, useless. Manchester rhyming slang for rotten, from bobbins of cotton. E.g."That meal was bobbins, next time we'll eat at home."
This, as a southerner, I had always understood the term.
The things you learn on here....

I use the term bobbins to mean rubbish. I haven't heard of Manchester rhyming slang!
I think I picked it up in Scotland.

[Hilary B]

Interesting that the same word can have totally opposite slangish meanings in different places. I know "that's bobbins" as a term of approval!
BTW, I wouldn't want the lung for 'own' use, but if cooking it for dog or cat, ROAST it rather than boiling, the smell is a lot less unpleasant!

[DarkCrow]

BUT - what the chuff has it got to do with Bobbins!!!?

I nearly didn't read this thread because I thought it was a sewing machine query!

I concur! i thought it was lacemaking

[bearded bloke]

AFAIK its a contraction of Manchester rhyming slang ..... "bobbin of cotton" = rotten