Re: Swallowdale - bacon

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Posted by Robert Hill on March 11, 2005 at 21:10:04 from 195.92.168.172 user eclrh.

In Reply to: Re: Swallowdale - bacon posted by Owen Roberts on March 11, 2005 at 11:04:09:

In the 1930's a UK grocer would have bacon which was sliced by machine in one's presence

Hence the old joke, "Please don't sit your baby on the bacon slicer, madam, we don't want to get behind with the orders."

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