The Canterbury Roll

I had never heard of it but maybe some of you History buffs will like this

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/canterbury-universitys-500-year-old-fake-news-goes-online/ar-AAAeexL?li=BBqdmGR

 

"The roll tracked the lineage of the English royal family from Henry VI all the way back to Noah..."

We once had a thread on a "Bishop" who ran an unaccredited "university" and claimed Apostolic succession back to St. Peter. Now, that's a good one! http://new.christianallianceministries.com/APOSTOLICSUCCESSION.htm
From this thread: https://www.degreeinfo.com/index.php?threads/northwestern-theological-seminary-less-than-faithful.42225/#post-429442

I always thought "Canterbury roll" was either something edible or an odd walk - a sort of medieval English "pimp-roll." https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Pimp Roll

 

Maybe - tons of curry in the UK, that's for sure! Popular there for generations! Vindaloo, Biryani etc. - all Indian food is well-liked. Plenty of people there who know how to cook it expertly.

 

A professor of mine forty years ago told me that he subsisted almost entirely on Indian cooking during a year in London as a grad student. Someone once said that the state of English cuisine is evidence of a national disinterest in the subject. Someone (French?) also said, of both the English and Americans, that we are societies with 364 religions but only one sauce!

 

"That cretin? He would be happy on English cooking!"-Someone is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe by Nan and Ivan Lyons.

 

Look and beware! I am the sad result of being raised on the worst and most common variety of English home cooking (i.e. boiling of "mince" (hamburger) and opening of tins). I was 16 before I became aware that "real" spaghetti wasn't that bland, near-mushy stuff in the Heinz can with the orange-looking sauce! I have spent the last 60 years making up for those privations of long ago!

 

You should sue someone. Really, you should. Was there no social welfare agency who could have snatched you and whisked you off to a decent restaurant?

 

I know that you could google it just like I did but, here's some photos

https://www.google.com/search?q=canterbury+roll&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjZj9uAl6zcAhWidt8KHUYxAfsQ_AUICygC&biw=1536&bih=747&dpr=1.25

 

A decent restaurant? In the UK of the late 40s/early 50s? Ha! Rationing was not completely gone until several years after I left England in 1952! Then again, good and plentiful food in Canada didn't change newcomers' basic English cooking habits overnight. That takes at least a generation. Once the kids eat with their new friends ... they learn. Oh yes, they learn!

 

I'd much forgotten about that. On this side of the pond, you'd have to be of a certain age to have known of it. Maybe on both sides of the pond.

 

My maternal grandfather was from Nova Scotia. A boatload or so of Germans encamped there.

 

I don't where in Nova Scotia he was from but I see that the surname is common there.

 

Yes, Nova Scotia. I think there's a surname rule there - if a McNeil marries a McLeod, their children are McLeans.

U.S. has some areas like that, too. I've heard (a joke) that in Melungeon territory, the Wise Valley, West Virginia , if a Goins marries a Collins, their children are Mullinses. Interesting folks, the Melungeons. Early adopters of the Internet, too - looking for ancestral clues. I became quite interested in them about 20-odd years ago and corresponded with one of their own - a researcher. Really nice fella - Ph.D. Unfortunately, he passed on some time ago. I still have a book, a poster and a couple of letters he sent me.

 

And IIRC, there's a similar rule in Prince Edward Island, too. If a Gallant marries a Cormier, their kids are Melansons. BTW - re: "hope ya like salt." It's a sad thing, but I've read that in areas with high salt intake e.g. through preservation of fish, stomach cancer rates go through the roof. High rates in Japan, high rates in Newfoundland. I'm guessing strokes, etc. might have a higher incidence in such places also - anything that significantly raises blood pressure...

 

For our first-ever meal in England (on 1965 honeymoon trip) we thought we'd play it safe and go to an Italian restaurant. I ordered spaghetti. The waiter asked if I wanted it on toast or on rice.