Wailing Walls
Monday, September 25, 2006 at 02:31PM This is just excellent. Not produced by GreenBean. This show is from London's Resonance 104.4FM. Tim Pickup, an Audio Adventurer entering Gastronomical territory!
http://podcasts.resonancefm.com/archives/198
Flickr photo by limpfish
Thing is... The link between Ludlow's Mr Wall and his winning sausage and ice cream is an interesting one. He's not the same Mr Wall of industrial Walls sausage and ice-cream. But Walls industrial sausage and ice-cream are or were the same. Butchers and Ice cream makers??? strange combination. Not really, in the first instance, in the early 1920's making ice-cream was a summer sideline to keep the factories busy. The "stop me and buy one" format was pioneered with 3 wheeler handcarts in the streets.
I can't find the references to document the transition at the moment, but it was in the 1930's that "Mr Whippy" style whipped ice "cream" was invented... and this used pig fat.. lard excess to industrial meat production. Full industrial integration had been achieved, and packaged up so the consumer saw no difference, or the difference was better in some new and "delicious" way. Such is the way that industrial food crept into our diets and lives.
These jingles that Tim Pickup has put together are now cultural icons, full of food meaning and food memory
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