Paul's Blog 06 02 2020

This is my first post using my new blogging system. Hopefully it will make it easier for me to create my posts and keep thing as up to date as possible.

Not too sure what I will rant and rave about yet but I am ready. Since getting it ready little has annoyed me except for the obvious Brexit and Coronavirus stories. Both of which have been covered elsewhere. I must therefore just hope that somebody else is lamenting the passing of bygone ages.

Who else misses spanish? Not liquorice but spanish. In these days after 'getting it done' I am surprised that spanish is not making a revival. Spanish was one of the sweets that was NOT rationed in world war 2. It was a twig, a root in fact that you chewed. However in the parlance of the youth the name covered all forms of liquorice.

But what has happened to spanish? Wikipedia does not mention it. The term goes back further than my knowledge. The guardian has a query about spanish. One response mentions using the term in the 1920's and 1930's. Wakefield council publish a document about liquorice in Pontefract which tells a lot but does little to identify when we started to use the term spanish.