Lord, just finished the other thread and 20 pages to grunk here! Sorry I'm behind so apologies if any of this has been covered.
Has she ever been to Asda head office, I'm sure if she had we would have had lots of Leeds talk, next time she could pop to seacroft and armley and talk to real poor people. I'll ask my family member that works there, they do have famous people come in. if they're doing ranges with them the chef's come in and cook for them, they have never mentioned st jack of the povs and they mention the others.
As a former poor person I would have hated the ghettoisation of shops like she suggests, it's bad enough being hard up without your nose being rubbed in it.
I grew up with ice on the inside of the windows and we all lived in one room downstairs and no Central heating. In winter if anyone left the door open we would all shout 'were you born in a barn? put wood in th'ole'
My parents and 2 siblings lived originally in one room at her mothers house (there was a huge housing shortage after WW2, they eventually got a council house and bought their own home in 1965, it needed a lot of work and they paid £2500 for it. That was a lot of money for them, my dad had just been invalided out of the mines and got a job in a warehouse. So you could buy houses for that sort of money, but the wages were low so in real terms they were still expensive.
the purchase of skimmed milk - surely semi or full fat would be essential calories with the nutrient-deficiency of the rest of the shop?
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