Pineapple hedgehogs!! And do you remember when it was de rigeur to cut tomatoes and radishes into that crown shape? I love the idea of boxes of drawing pins as the prizes for a kid's birthday party - quite perfect.
Yes! one day in a very long summer holiday, my Granny bought radishes and taught me how to make crowns and roses out of them. A life skill I have yet to employ to any good use as an adult, but no doubt one day I will be called upon and I will not be found wanting.
Only in the 70s would drawing pins be even remotely considered a good idea! And the pineapple-with-cheese hedgehog is a completely wild thing to this American brain.
On the other hand, I happen to live where there are several nicely sized second-hand stores, so if you ever get the opportunity to visit, with the bonus of sampling excellent Mexican food, hit me up.
Our cheeses in pineapple creations in Australia were usually stuck in half an orange, and often also had alternating sticks with cheese and coloured cocktail onions. Memories…
Ours were also stuck in a half orange but it was always covered in tin foil too, I don’t know, make it look more realistically like a hedgehog from space, maybe? We used to have silverskin onions on sticks on a separate foil orange, and small sausages on sticks on another one. Neither the onions nor the sausage were called hedgehogs though, which is very weird.
Oh Katy, that made me laugh out loud! I've just come back from our local supermarket and am feeling miffed that stuff I want to buy - a small tin of refried beans, the lovely cheapo block of creamed coconut - has been replaced by daft shelf displays of 'meal kits' so I feel your tidy shop pain.
Pineapple hedgehogs!! And do you remember when it was de rigeur to cut tomatoes and radishes into that crown shape? I love the idea of boxes of drawing pins as the prizes for a kid's birthday party - quite perfect.
Yes! one day in a very long summer holiday, my Granny bought radishes and taught me how to make crowns and roses out of them. A life skill I have yet to employ to any good use as an adult, but no doubt one day I will be called upon and I will not be found wanting.
Well, you never know!
Oh Katy, this did rather take me back! 😂 Kids parties, a fertile ground to plant the seeds for a lifetime of emotional trauma! 😂
So very true!
Not only did this American miss pineapple and cheese hedgehogs, but I am not absolutely sure what drawing pins are. 😊
I think that you call them thumb tacks? x
Yes, I googled it. 😂
Only in the 70s would drawing pins be even remotely considered a good idea! And the pineapple-with-cheese hedgehog is a completely wild thing to this American brain.
On the other hand, I happen to live where there are several nicely sized second-hand stores, so if you ever get the opportunity to visit, with the bonus of sampling excellent Mexican food, hit me up.
This sounds perfect to me. I definitely will. x
Our cheeses in pineapple creations in Australia were usually stuck in half an orange, and often also had alternating sticks with cheese and coloured cocktail onions. Memories…
Ours were also stuck in a half orange but it was always covered in tin foil too, I don’t know, make it look more realistically like a hedgehog from space, maybe? We used to have silverskin onions on sticks on a separate foil orange, and small sausages on sticks on another one. Neither the onions nor the sausage were called hedgehogs though, which is very weird.
Every bit of this is amazing. And I was telling Harry about pineapple hedgehogs just last night.
Every child should know about them. Iconic.
Oh Katy, that made me laugh out loud! I've just come back from our local supermarket and am feeling miffed that stuff I want to buy - a small tin of refried beans, the lovely cheapo block of creamed coconut - has been replaced by daft shelf displays of 'meal kits' so I feel your tidy shop pain.
Argghhh! Death to the tidy shop!
My grandson and I enjoyed this very much! Thank you for sharing. Say, I have a birthday coming up…