The Men In White - Page 5

garinda · 01-09-2012, 08:17

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Originally Posted by DerekJRipley

According to my own research, Boeing Guy, that Bill Blunt chap has been in the pay of the Tripe Marketing Board for at least 5 years...

Anyway, I imagine that there are plenty of industries out there who would kill to have a supposedly imaginary marketing board that could double sales of their product in a single week!

I just wish they'd spend a fraction of their budget on plugging my book.

Perhaps you should have approached the Chorley Cake Institute.

Apparently they now have a massive marketing budget, ever since they were taken over by a Russian oligarch, who's now based in Hoyle Bottom.

mobertol · 01-09-2012, 08:22

Rick Stein did feature the Accy tripe stall in his Food Heroes series.

Amazing to think how popular it used to be, in the 1920's there were 18 Tripe dressers in Accrington alone -not counting others in Clayton, Ossy and all the surrounding area.

(Info from the list at the end of this publication which a certain Bob Dobson had a hand in: https://prospectbooks.co.uk/samples/Tripe.pdf)

Something I could never stomach personally but my Grandad's generation loved it -it was a mainstay during WW2 particularly...

I suppose we're all a bit spoilt these days.

DerekJRipley · 01-09-2012, 08:24

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Originally Posted by garinda

Perhaps you should have approached the Chorley Cake Institute.

Apparently they now have a massive marketing budget, ever since they were taken over by a Russian oligarch, who's now based in Hoyle Bottom.

Perhaps you can collaborate with me on Vol II of Forgotten Lancashire, garinda?

In the Blunt archives I found an awful lot of material about the Wigan School of Home Economics, so I was able to devote a chapter in my book to it. And I came across Chorley Co-operative Cattle Products, but nothing on the Chorley Cake Institute (although Sydney and Beatrice Website were reputedly killed by agents of the NKVD Cake Division operating from Chorley).

mobertol · 01-09-2012, 08:26

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Originally Posted by garinda

Perhaps you should have approached the Chorley Cake Institute.

Apparently they now have a massive marketing budget, ever since they were taken over by a Russian oligarch, who's now based in Hoyle Bottom.

Naughty -mentioning Chorley cakes! Would love one with my mid-morning tea!

Plenty of squashed flies around too after the recent plagues in a certain area of Lankyshire no wonder they're booming at an international level!

garinda · 01-09-2012, 08:26

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Originally Posted by DerekJRipley

Lady Gaga as a poster girl for tripe? That would be fantastic!

Sadly she's a bit ga-ga, and wouldn't hear of it.

I could call Kylie.

See if I could coax her into getting her trotters in to a pair of leaf tripe hot pants.

DerekJRipley · 01-09-2012, 08:27

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Originally Posted by mobertol

Rick Stein did feature the Accy tripe stall in his Food Heroes series.

Amazing to think how popular it used to be, in the 1920's there were 18 Tripe dressers in Accrington alone -not counting others in Clayton, Ossy and all the surrounding area.

(Info from the list at the end of this publication which a certain Bob Dobson had a hand in: https://prospectbooks.co.uk/samples/Tripe.pdf)

Something I could never stomach personally but my Grandad's generation loved it -it was a mainstay during WW2 particularly...

I suppose we're all a bit spoilt these days.

And still very popular in Italy too, mobertol... Accademia della Trippa | Tripe Academy | Siti ufficialmente riconosciuti

Anyway, I could discuss this for hours, but the dogs need their walk!

mobertol · 01-09-2012, 08:28

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Originally Posted by DerekJRipley

Perhaps you can collaborate with me on Vol II of Forgotten Lancashire, garinda?

In the Blunt archives I found an awful lot of material about the Wigan School of Home Economics, so I was able to devote a chapter in my book to it. And I came across Chorley Co-operative Cattle Products, but nothing on the Chorley Cake Institute (although Sydney and Beatrice Website were reputedly killed by agents of the NKVD Cake Division operating from Chorley).

I have it from a friend that cow-heel pie is "to die for" -never had the courage to try it myself...

mobertol · 01-09-2012, 08:30

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Originally Posted by DerekJRipley

And still very popular in Italy too, mobertol... Accademia della Trippa | Tripe Academy | Siti ufficialmente riconosciuti

Anyway, I could discuss this for hours, but the dogs need their walk!

My men eat it with relish -I refuse to cook it!

They cook it in a substantial minestone-type stew with large white beans in.

A speciality in the Cremona area is actually the same thing made with chicken's tripe!

mobertol · 01-09-2012, 08:33

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Originally Posted by garinda

Sadly she's a bit ga-ga, and wouldn't hear of it.

I could call Kylie.

See if I could coax her into getting her trotters in to a pair of leaf tripe hot pants.

I heard that Ms Gaga prefers to sing as mother nature made her. That of course is marketing tripe of another kind!

jaysay · 01-09-2012, 08:39

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Originally Posted by garinda

I've only been to Bacup once.

I felt a little uneasy.

I think it was brought on by being relatively close to both Mad-chester, and Yorkshireville at the same time.

I left before the cast of The League of Gentlemen started dancing down the streets, clutching their hairy nuts.

You only went once

you should be so lucky I used to work there

Wynonie Harris · 01-09-2012, 08:39

Very popular in Peru too!

Cau Cau - Peruvian Tripe & Potatoes

Mrs H often asks me to bring some tripe home on my trips to Accrington. She then cooks it up to the above recipe, which I refuse to even countenance, preferring my tripe cold with black pepper and vinegar!

garinda · 01-09-2012, 08:46

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Originally Posted by DerekJRipley

Perhaps you can collaborate with me on Vol II of Forgotten Lancashire, garinda?

In the Blunt archives I found an awful lot of material about the Wigan School of Home Economics, so I was able to devote a chapter in my book to it. And I came across Chorley Co-operative Cattle Products, but nothing on the Chorley Cake Institute (although Sydney and Beatrice Website were reputedly killed by agents of the NKVD Cake Division operating from Chorley).

You've never heard of, or been to the Chorley Cake Institute?

Red brick building? Southport Road?

No?

Suprising. You being a man of letters and all, and we're told, historian.

It was founded in 1891, to give local unemployed bobbin carriers the chance to better themselves, if they didn't have the academic qualifications to get into that decidedly more prestigious place of further education, the Wigan Pie Polytechnic.

jaysay · 01-09-2012, 08:47

Well its a long time since I read every post on a thread (maybe because Mancie and Kes haven't posted in it) and its pure trip:But having said that I have to say I love the stuff myself, but it has to be raw as it comes, just with salt and vinegar, preferably with chips but on its own sat on a bench in the town centre munching away, happen as well I can't get into the town centre anymore wouldn't have anywhere to eat it

Boeing Guy · 01-09-2012, 13:26

Quote:

Originally Posted by DerekJRipley

According to my own research, Boeing Guy, that Bill Blunt chap has been in the pay of the Tripe Marketing Board for at least 5 years...

Anyway, I imagine that there are plenty of industries out there who would kill to have a supposedly imaginary marketing board that could double sales of their product in a single week!

I just wish they'd spend a fraction of their budget on plugging my book.

Derek, seeing the Tripe Marketing Board are a Ltd Company called LEB and have been trading since 3/3/12, based in Manchester, would you like me to post the Directors names and ages?
I find the comments regarding the Tripe Marketing board, well Tripe.

As I said earlier, a rather clever viral marketing campaign?

Boeing Guy · 01-09-2012, 13:43

In fact everything about you, the YouTube, comments on other forums (leyland), your blog, tmb all are very recent.
Very clever. Sold many books yet?