Chocolate Crumb and Bananas
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Title
Chocolate Crumb and Bananas
Subject
Memories of sweet treats and 'slogging' apples
Description
Excerpt from an oral history interview where the narrator reflects on memories of sweet treats and robbing apples in her youth.
Transcript
"I grew up in the Lower Road just below Water Street, and we used to come up to get the chocolate crumb off the boats, and the bananas. We used get killed! Up the quay waiting for the chocolate crumb boat to come up. Sure, we couldn’t affoard sweets at the time, we’d get the chocolate crumb. And the bananas, they’d be as green as grass and you’d have to wrap them in brown paper so’s they’d ripen fast. I remember going down then, where Silver Springs is now, that was called Dwyer’s Wood. There would be a lot of big houses, they had maids and cleaners, four or five stories. And one day we decided we’d go in sloggin’ apples. And of course I got caught on the fence going over, I’d two lovely spike marks, I got killed when I went up home. You see, that time we had no money, and we’d be sent off in the morning with a bread and jam sandwich and a bottle of milk, and you’d be told: ‘Go off for the day’. You’d be down Dwyer’s Woods playing rounders or whatever it was for the day. And then on the way back we’d be feeling hungry, and we’d go in and we’d rob apples. That’s what sloggin’ apples is."
Transcript
"I grew up in the Lower Road just below Water Street, and we used to come up to get the chocolate crumb off the boats, and the bananas. We used get killed! Up the quay waiting for the chocolate crumb boat to come up. Sure, we couldn’t affoard sweets at the time, we’d get the chocolate crumb. And the bananas, they’d be as green as grass and you’d have to wrap them in brown paper so’s they’d ripen fast. I remember going down then, where Silver Springs is now, that was called Dwyer’s Wood. There would be a lot of big houses, they had maids and cleaners, four or five stories. And one day we decided we’d go in sloggin’ apples. And of course I got caught on the fence going over, I’d two lovely spike marks, I got killed when I went up home. You see, that time we had no money, and we’d be sent off in the morning with a bread and jam sandwich and a bottle of milk, and you’d be told: ‘Go off for the day’. You’d be down Dwyer’s Woods playing rounders or whatever it was for the day. And then on the way back we’d be feeling hungry, and we’d go in and we’d rob apples. That’s what sloggin’ apples is."
Creator
Cork Folklore Project
Source
CFP_SR00437_corcoran_2011
Publisher
Cork Folklore Project
Date
20 April 2016
Rights
Copyright Cork Folklore Project
Format
Mp3
Language
English
Type
Audio
Identifier
CFP_SR00437_corcoran_2011
Citation
Cork Folklore Project, “Chocolate Crumb and Bananas,” Cork Memory Map, accessed May 19, 2024, https://corkfolklore.org/cmm/items/show/46.