• Article |
• Discussion |
• Edit |
• Add Comment |
• History

Posted on http://www.derbyphotos.co.uk Jan. 2004 Do Derby folk appreciate their local foods?. Just after the war a very special treat for Christmas in my family was to have a Walkers christmas pudding, some Thorntons chocolates and a tall Birds Pork Pie. I now live in Cornwall and thank goodness I can buy the pudding and chocolates nationally now, but I can only get the Birds Pie in the Derby area. Some years I didn't manage to get one, but this christmas I've really been lucky. My son in law came to Beaston in December for a job interview and he brought back two large pies,then in the first week in Jan. My son came up to see a mate of his and he brought back another couple of pies they were delicious, the only trouble I now have to diet for a few weeks. So all you Derby folks believe me you don't know what a good thing you have got on your doorstep until you move away.

Dave Upton Cornwall