I have always been able to wake up from a dream and go back to sleep and continue the same dream where I left it, but I digress. Last night I had this dream where i was buying biscuits at the old Co-op or on the market where the biscuits came in a silver metal tin 12-14 inch square with a clear top so you could see what you wanted. There was usually one with broken biscuits and the tins were on shelving units slightly angled towards you. The amount you needed were weighed and wrapped. Now you members of a certain age, was I dreaming this did I dream this as in a made up dream or could you back in the day actually buy biscuits in this fashion. I have been awake mulling this over a cuppa,,,, sans biccy.
Have you got any broken biscuits mester? Served this reyt for bein’ so clumsy. I remember those tins and butter and cheese being weighed and the bacon slicer that left the rind on. And even tea being weighed. The lasses on the co-op counter were a wonder. Human calculating machines and never got it wrong.
Those biscuit tins with clear lids displaying their contents definitely existed and I think there’d be one for broken biscuits.
I can remember biscuit tins with clear lids, probably around the late 50s or early 60s. It might have been at the Coop, where I used to shop for my Grandma, but I also have Woolies in the back of my mind.
Certainly not a Yorkshire thing. I too can remember going to the sosh with my mum and gran and seeing those big square biscuit boxes with see through lids. This would be early 60s.
