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I am reading a book about growing up in the Black Country, the child's grandmom who lived in Wednesbury would go to the Cookshop situated in Union Street and ask for a 'Penny Dip' .

Did anyone else's grandmom tell them about having a penny dip, and was it stale bread dipped in gravy made with the juices of cooked meat.

Annie

penny dip when i was a kid in the 60s was sherbert but listening and remebering what my mom says totally different life and the kids of 2000 couldnt dream of what were on about ?

My mum used to go and get this in Old Hill and it is one of her sweetest memories!
I think it is sherbert....
along with was it oxo lick .....I have asked her to let me know

This is where Pete's idea of recording the memories is a good idea

peterd wrote:penny dip when i was a kid in the 60s was sherbert but listening and remebering what my mom says totally different life and the kids of 2000 couldnt dream of what were on about ?

It was sherbert in the 70's too, we called it a penny dip or sherbert dip dap, but it probably cost more than a penny, going by the fact I could by weets for 1/2 p I'd recon it'd cost about 5p!

Ha'penny Dip is Aussie Rhyming Slang for "having a kip".

Not in much because most young Aussie's wouldn't know what a kip is

Kip in Dutch means chicken!!

The book I am reading goes on to say during WW2 they got a Penny Dip at Purchases General Store , Dangerfield Lane it could be 2 boiled sweets or caramels.

In her grandmom's day they must have though a slice of stale bread dip in the gravy would be more filling than sweets or sherbert.

Annie