cream on top of the milk

[steeljack]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

yes, wazzy is a lancashire term and it means 'like wazz (urine)'
Just thought I would share that with you all.

Ah , now that also helps to explain why my Grandad used use the word to describe the beer in various pubs.
Thanks Margaret for helping to keep the lancashire dialect alive , karma on its way

[Royboy39]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

yes, wazzy is a lancashire term and it means 'like wazz (urine)'
Just thought I would share that with you all.

That term must only have been used in Clayton.......never come across that before. Church was always more sophisticated than Clayton?

[Guinness]

I stayed in a cottage on a working farm in Cornwall last year. The farmers wife left us the usual tourist clotted cream, scones and jam as a welcome gift. There was also a jug of unpasteurised full cream milk straight from the cow.

Being used to tasteless supermarket milk, kept chilled, I'd forgotten what room temperature real milk tasted like!

I was talking to her a couple of days later and she told me that it was illegal for her to sell it but she was allowed to give as much away as she wanted. Needless to say I refilled that jug every day of my stay..Heaven

[Royboy39]

Originally Posted by Royboy39

That term must only have been used in Clayton.......never come across that before. Church was always more sophisticated than Clayton?

We would refer to any 'Dodgy ale' as Gnats P......................

[Margaret Pilkington]

Have you never heard anyone saying that they are going for a 'wazz'....well, perhaps not...but when i was younger......that was what going for a wee was called....maybe some of the newer euphemisms have taken over

[Margaret Pilkington]

Originally Posted by Royboy39

That term must only have been used in Clayton.......never come across that before. Church was always more sophisticated than Clayton?

Well, Royboy......I am not sure that it is used anymore....and in any case I am an 'incomer' to Clayton....I have only been here 41 years!
Think perhaps another twenty and then I might just have made it as a local.

[Royboy39]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Have you never heard anyone saying that they are going for a 'wazz'....well, perhaps not...but when i was younger......that was what going for a wee was called....maybe some of the newer euphemisms have taken over

That must have been a very polite ladies term, perhaps never heard it because they would'nt tell us anyway

[Yolanda25]

I think that cream on top of milk is mingen, my mother in law gets milk in the mornin and sometimes when i used to make a brew, the cream used to splash on my brew so now instead of pouring it on my cup i pour the first bit in sink and then on my brew, arghhh

[Margaret Pilkington]

Oh Royboy, it wasn't the ladies who used that euphemism...we always went to 'powder our nose'...it was the chaps who used that term, and many others which were much less polite.

[Royboy39]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Oh Royboy, it wasn't the ladies who used that euphemism...we always went to 'powder our nose'...it was the chaps who used that term, and many others which were much less polite.

I told you.......more refined in Church and Ossy.....It was going for a 'slash'

[Margaret Pilkington]

And you call that refined ????? 'Pointing Percy at the porcelain'...perhaps....going for a 'slash'...I don't think so

[Tin Monkey]

Originally Posted by Yolanda25

I think that cream on top of milk is mingen, my mother in law gets milk in the mornin and sometimes when i used to make a brew, the cream used to splash on my brew so now instead of pouring it on my cup i pour the first bit in sink and then on my brew, arghhh

Or perhaps try shaking the bottle before you open it?

[Ianto.W.]

One woman we worked with liked the milk top creamso much she used to come to work early to grab it for her brew, but we used to get one of the night shift men to turn the bottle over. That cured her.

[WillowTheWhisp]

I always thought wazzy meant watery. It may well have been used as a crude slang term for going to the loo but I think that derives from 'passing water' being a more refined way of putting it.

Anyway, back to milk. I prefer semi-skimmed and buy the UHT stuff because it's easier not to run out when you can buy it in bulk. I gave up on the milk man years ago when it kept being delivered after I'd gone to work and would be there on the doorstep all day. I do get a small amount of full cream milk for my kefir thingy which is multiplying at an alarming rate!!

I can drink semi-skimmed on its own but full cream is too sickly to me. Skimmed is just too watery.

We used to get sterilized in those tall bottles with the metal caps and my Dad made a stopper to go in the bottle once the cap had been removed. He was a centre lathe turner and he made this lovely thing on his lathe at work. We kept milk on a stone shelf in the pantry back in those olden days.

[grannyclaret]

we had steralised when i was a kid,,, [i liked it then but i wouldent dream of buying that sort of milk now],,,,
if we ran out ...we would open a tin of condensed milk it was like syrup.....
[....nowadays its semi skimmed ,its good for everthing.....