[Food] How long ago was it….

[POSKETT AT THE VALLEY]

When a bloke used to come round the pub selling seafood.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

When a bloke used to come round the pub selling seafood.

Must have been early 80s. We always called him Wally Winkle when he came round the Lord Nelson about half ten at night. Prob stopped around the same time as the Sally Army came round hypocritically flogging War Cry at about that same point in the evening ie when resistance was low Always remember my little mate Mick being mortally offended when he was offered a copy of Young Soldier instead

Dodgy DVD Man, on the other hand, was a feature of The Brewery Tap for much of The Withdean Era. Gotta love buying a copy of March Of The Penguins for £1, even if it was recorded by somebody sat in a cinema in China. And if you tapped your nose and winked in just the right way, he'd produce this second bag of DVDs. Er, apparently...

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

Pretty sure there was someone still selling seafood in Chapmans in the early 90s - @Lenny Rider can probably confirm that.

 

[Lenny Rider]

Pretty sure there was someone still selling seafood in Chapmans in the early 90s - @Lenny Rider can probably confirm that.

And The George in Goring throughout the 80s.
(Before it became the ’Home of the Roast’)

 

[Justice]

Yep it seems the fish man has floundered over the years

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Yep ir seems the fish man has floundered over the years

There but for the brace of cod

 

[Gabbafella]

Did he have big mussels?

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Did he have big mussels?

No, but they say he had a huge cockle

 

[POSKETT AT THE VALLEY]

There’s a time and a plaice for puns!

 

[Grassman]

Did he have big mussels?

He did, although I always thought they looked a bit ropey, as did the soles of his feet.

 

[Official Old Man]

With pubs selling food and snacks I guess that is one reason for the ending of the fish man/woman.
Greyhound Pub in Keymer was my local between '76 & '81 and recall Sally Army coming round plus I wooed my now wife with tasty mussels from the fish man.

 

[Questions]

And The George in Goring throughout the 80s.
(Before it became the ’Home of the Roast’)

And as Nigel Erskine said to the guy in The Clifton, “Do you serve shrimps’ ?

 

[el punal]

With pubs selling food and snacks I guess that is one reason for the ending of the fish man/woman.
Greyhound Pub in Keymer was my local between '76 & '81 and recall Sally Army coming round plus I wooed my now wife with tasty mussels from the fish man.

Thank goodness it wasn’t crabs.

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

Pretty sure there was someone still selling seafood in Chapmans in the early 90s - @Lenny Rider can probably confirm that.

Think I left there with fishy smelling fingers once

 

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

I purchased some of them little things that look like bogeys from Ron in The Telscombe Tavern in 1998

 

[Tubby Mondays]

The Salvation Army still pop up with war cry now on a Friday night and sneer when you say no thanks!

Ah the Christian spirit.

 

[Tubby Mondays]

But I’m answer to the original question it was still happening where I drank on a Sunday lunchtime 20 years ago.

 

[oldboyroy]

All the herring gulls put a stop to it!

 

[Auckland seagull]

I never heard them come in; I was too hard of herring.

 

[OzMike]

I like threads like this that remind me of things that I had long forgotten about.
When I used to drink in The Ship on the Lewes Rd a guy used to pop in selling seafood. I used to get a pot of prawns or winkles.