Think Draw - Picture - Half a pound of tuppeny rice ...

Title: Half a pound of tuppeny rice ...
created on 09 Dec 09

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Comments on this picture (27):
1. matthew wrote: Great old market counter...
2. solange62 wrote: Very interesting!
3. Hazer wrote: Great pic!
4. Dragon wrote: This is wonderful!
5. indigo wrote: Very nice pic! What is tuppeny rice?
6. danila wrote: SO LOVELY..THERE ARE MANY PLACES LIKE THIS IN HERE!!
7. Login wrote: indigo, 'tuppece' is an old English abbreviation for 'two pennies'. The rhyme is about economic hardship ... low wages and people had to make what little they earned go a long way. to make their money go a long way.
8. Login wrote: Half a pound of tuppeny rice, half a pound of treacle ... that's the way the money goes, pop goes the weasel.
9. Login wrote: 'pop' meant 'to pawn' and 'weasel and stoat' was Cockney rhyming slang for 'coat'. So basically ... short of money ... pawn your coat.
10. franca wrote: Beautiful pic, bravo Login!!!
11. indigo wrote: Thanks Login, that was very interesting!
12. Heidi2323 wrote: Love the pic and explanation.
13. puzzler wrote: Great explanation! Why Watsons?
14. polenta wrote: Will she feed a family of four with half a pound of rice? Those were definitely hard times...... Great pic!
15. polenta wrote: This reminds me of the old grocery store we had on every corner when I was a child.....I'm getting nostalgic.... and the shopkeeper must be so friendly and offer her a candy.
16. mebu27 wrote: Love this too, but tell me is that a penguin behind the counter?
17. Login wrote: Ha,ha,ha,ha ... no it's not a penguin, mebu ... it's a badly drawn shop assistant. No particular reason for Watsons, puzzler ... just the first name that came into my head.
18. Dragon wrote: I had no idea that was where Pop Goes the Weasel came from! What an enlightening day in the nursery rhyme showcase.
19. arty wrote: I can "just" remember buying my sweets at a shop like this with "coupons". Memories!
20. Login wrote: arty, I too remember ration books and coupons! Introduced during WWII, it was the fairest way possible to share out food in short supply. It was slowly fased out ... the last things to come off rationing were cigarettes, sweets, sugar and bananas (the new
21. Login wrote: ... superfruit) 1953 / 1954.
22. DIAMANTE wrote: Very nice.
23. pollyesther wrote: Fantastic Login!
24. Luna wrote: Love the picture and the explanation!
25. five wrote: that's a lot of detail; well done
26. coho wrote: Thanks for the explanation of pop goes the weasel, i've been off the computer and missed this one.
27. debray wrote: How creative....Love this!!