Penzance postcard

Acc.no: PEZPH : 1990.991

Identification

Item: "A Cornish Dinner Likky Stew, Saffron Cake an' a dish a tay with et"

Description: The card is headed by an attempt at Cornish dialect. Of course this is impossible to write down as each small area had its own dialect and vocabulary. A white starched tablecloth, lace doiley and a mismatch of crockery are laid on a table for one. Dinner is taken around midday. The round saffron cake on a raised plate is home-made, the leeks for the soup are roughly cut into large slices; sugar lumps are in the sundae dish, the tea cup is large and the teapot on a stand would hold 6 cupfuls. Where is the tea strainer and where is the milk? It is a thoroughly ill thought out picture. Who would pour a cup of tea before eating their soup? Where is the knife to cut the cake? The Cornish generally did not take sugar as they were anti-slavery and it was the slaves who worked the sugar cane plantations. It is a poor attempt to promote the tourist trade.

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Category: Photography

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