Bakery firm's on a roll

[tiddles]

www.greenocktelegraph.co.uk/news/greenock/articles/2013/05/28/458773-bakery-firms-on-a-roll/

Well I am quite pleased to read this, Aulds are one of the last real local businesses and it's also good to see a member of the family back in charge.

I have to admit that their goods are not the greatest in the world but they are light years ahead of the Americanised, preservative and transfat filled garbage sold in supermarkets. Give me a nice strawberry tart against a greasy, rubbery cup cake any day.

I do miss Mackays, Edminstons and even East End Bakery too!

[samfregreenock]

Whilst in Largs one day, I went into Aulds there - aking for english Muffins - the wummin behind teh counter told me they were a Scottish bakery and didn't stock such things

I did point out to her that tehy sold empire bicuits, danish pastries, battenberg cake etc which one can hardly refer to s Scottish

That went over her head at such a height

[tiddles]

My mother says that you shouldn't call, 'Empire Biscuits' anything other than, 'German Biscuits'. Apparently they changed the name during the first world war. I love them!

[samfregreenock]

May 28, 2013 17:30:20 GMT 1 tiddles said:

My mother says that you shouldn't call, 'Empire Biscuits' anything other than, 'German Biscuits'. Apparently they changed the name during the first world war. I love them!

Probably round the same time that the saxe-coburgs became the Windsors and the battenbergs(not the cake) became mountbatten

Dastardly Huns the lot of them.....

[tiddles]

And.....the Ohlms became Holms!

Der Tag ist lang aber die Nacht ist zu kurz