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I’m Coming for you Bob...
To Hull & Back... to Carver’s Just for the Mushy Peas!
 As a little lad, I think on a Sat’day morning, we’d go 
to a market somewhere, was it on the docks?
 Asked our Brian, he’s smart, he said it were... I thought - he’d know. ...After all the mooching, the tugging, the shushing, the rows and all me **** “where’s he gone nows?” 
If I stuck it out long enough wi’out gerrin’ a clout, we’d sit inside, or sometimes out,
 of a blue striped tent - and I’d eat mushy peas. There might have been chips,
 there could have been fish; Mam always had fish,
 Brian, would have had a pattie... well, he was 12(ish)
 Not sure I’d even have known about patties all them years back. But anyway peas is what sticks in my mind…
 and all down the front of me jumper...or sometimes on me mac. They say - if you haven’t been to Carver’s
 you haven’t been to Hull.
 Well Bob... I’m coming back!… And’ll
bet, when I was digging mushy peas
 with my fork back in Fifty Three,
 it were your Grandad, (also Bob) would have been serving me! Cheers! And, I know it's cheeky - but - Can I have scraps wi'that?
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Dec 30, 2020
Dec 30, 2020 at 10:27 AM UTC
Bob Carver’s Mushy Peas - Hull 1953