Gudge cake and rasa
Dublin Core
Title
Gudge cake and rasa
Subject
Discussing the little shop/cafe in Blackpool
Description
Tom Jones talks about having 'rasa' and 'gudge cake' or chester cake. 'Rasa' is a raspberry cordial which is diluted with water. 'Gudge cake' is a local cake which is made with fruit and is heavy in the stomach.
Transcript
"There was The Pantry out in Blackpool, Blackpool Bridge, and we went over there all the time and get that glass of rasa, which was diluted... And then there was a cake, I think it was called Chester cake. We knew it as gudge cake and that thing weighed. I mean it was about a penny or something like that, and you’d get a slice of it and it actually weighed in your stomach for maybe... You know, you’d run into old friends and they were talking about “Remember the time when we had milk and cakes?” Well Jesus Christ, we never had milk and cakes – it was the cheap diluted rasa and that gudge cake! So, you know, some of these memories at times, when you look back and reminisce about childhood, they are a little coloured also. And because “Remember milk and cake shops?” - there was only one, I believe, and that was on Leitrim Street. But every other one that we went to, it was that glass of diluted rasa and that pen’orth, (am I pronouncing that correctly: penny-worth, pen’orth?) of um, this gudge cake, this Chester cake. Because that, that maybe, you know, I mean, that would be the pre-teen hangout also. So, the one in Blackpool Bridge, erm The Pantry it was called, it was a little sweet shop or whatever, and they sold, you know I guess, whatever else they sold, but they had a tray of gudge cake there and that glass. And they had a room in the back and that was almost like a pre-teen hangout for the kids around that came from Farranree"
Transcript
"There was The Pantry out in Blackpool, Blackpool Bridge, and we went over there all the time and get that glass of rasa, which was diluted... And then there was a cake, I think it was called Chester cake. We knew it as gudge cake and that thing weighed. I mean it was about a penny or something like that, and you’d get a slice of it and it actually weighed in your stomach for maybe... You know, you’d run into old friends and they were talking about “Remember the time when we had milk and cakes?” Well Jesus Christ, we never had milk and cakes – it was the cheap diluted rasa and that gudge cake! So, you know, some of these memories at times, when you look back and reminisce about childhood, they are a little coloured also. And because “Remember milk and cake shops?” - there was only one, I believe, and that was on Leitrim Street. But every other one that we went to, it was that glass of diluted rasa and that pen’orth, (am I pronouncing that correctly: penny-worth, pen’orth?) of um, this gudge cake, this Chester cake. Because that, that maybe, you know, I mean, that would be the pre-teen hangout also. So, the one in Blackpool Bridge, erm The Pantry it was called, it was a little sweet shop or whatever, and they sold, you know I guess, whatever else they sold, but they had a tray of gudge cake there and that glass. And they had a room in the back and that was almost like a pre-teen hangout for the kids around that came from Farranree"
Creator
Cork Folklore Project
Source
CFP_SR00438_jones_2011
Publisher
Cork Folklore Project
Date
4/27/2016
Contributor
Tom Jones
Rights
Copyright Cork Folklore Project
Format
MP3
Language
English
Type
Audio files
Identifier
CFP_SR00438_jones_2011
Citation
Cork Folklore Project, “Gudge cake and rasa,” Cork Memory Map, accessed May 3, 2024, https://corkfolklore.org/cmm/items/show/52.