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[jaysay]

Originally Posted by KiTChener

My late father in law's favourite saying was
'You've only so much dirt to eat afore you die'
Mainly after he'd picked his butty up of the workshop floor!

I remember the Irish gangers on the road works using their shovel to spread the Asphalt, then using the same shovel to cook bacon and eggs on at lunchtime

[maxthecollie]

My uncle who was a fireman on the steam trains used to cook breakfast on the shovel he used for coal.

[Greeny]

and my husband was a fireman on steam trains too, and coal was not the only thing on this shovel before the bacon and eggs.