Phoebe Kerin

Just watching the world turn

[Phoebe Kerin @plk079]

@SimonCotter62 Inland Rail has been a shit show since day 1. Wrong route, too many fingers in the pie etc no surprise it got the flick.

[Phoebe Kerin @plk079]

@Roud7734 @AdamCoffeyNT Until they go under trees

[Phoebe Kerin @plk079]

I quite like liver now.I didn’t as a kid the way mum cooked up lambs fry.I found appreciation for it when I had a chef boyf who did 1 thing diff to mum- he didn’t cook the shit out of it!

H/ever I was looking at some liver fluke yesterday,so might hold back having it for dinner

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Liver and onions was on the kitchen table of roughly every British household in the country, at least once a fortnight, from approximately 1850 to approximately 1985.

A Tuesday meal. Whatever day the butcher had lamb's liver in, or pig's liver if you were further down the week, or ox liver if the household was stretching the budget.

Your mother bought it that afternoon. Still warm, or nearly. Deep burgundy, slick and glossy on the butcher's paper. Half a pound. Tuppence. Change from a shilling.

She sliced it quarter of an inch thick, dusted it in seasoned flour, and laid it in a pan where a pound of onions had been going soft in bacon fat for twenty minutes. Two minutes one side. Two minutes the other. The middle still faintly pink. Overcooked liver was a mortal sin in a British kitchen, spoken of by grandmothers with genuine sadness, the way a priest might discuss a lapsed parishioner.

Pan juices deglazed with water and Worcestershire, poured over. Mashed potato. A pile of cabbage. A rasher of bacon laid across the top if it was a good week.

The whole thing cost, in 1962, approximately 8p per serving. It delivered, in a single plate, the highest concentration of bioavailable vitamin A in any food on earth, more B12 than any supplement will ever contain, haem iron at absorption rates a plant source cannot match, copper, zinc, choline, folate, and selenium.

Nobody called it a superfood. Nobody called anything a superfood. It was called Tuesday.

Then, between 1985 and 2005, liver quietly disappeared. Mothers stopped buying it. The butcher stopped ordering it. The supermarket stopped stocking it. By 2010, most British adults under thirty had never knowingly eaten it.

The word now carries a faint cultural embarrassment. A food your nan ate. Something to move past.

Meanwhile, 20% of British women of childbearing age are anaemic. The NHS prescribes them ferrous sulphate tablets that cause nausea and take six months to address a deficiency one plate of liver a fortnight would correct in weeks.

The women taking the tablets are, in many cases, the granddaughters of the women who ate the liver.

The deficiency is cultural amnesia with a prescription attached.

Your butcher still has lamb's liver in the counter. Ask him. He will be delighted. He might throw in the kidneys.

Flour. Bacon fat. Onions. Four minutes total. Worcestershire. Mashed potato underneath.

The grandmother is gone, but the dish remembers her, and so do you, whether you knew her or not.

Eat it. Pass it on.

[Phoebe Kerin @plk079]

@strangerous10 @JulianAndrew63 I used to work in communications for Shell Lubricants in London, trust me - she knows

[Bugsy 3 Hairs @bugsy3hairs]

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[Phoebe Kerin @plk079]

@bugsy3hairs @OunkaOnX Signed

[Phoebe Kerin @plk079]

@SimonCotter62 The comments have been incredibly revolting. Manilla/Tamworth are proud of this country girl bred and her achievements!

[Phoebe Kerin @plk079]

@SamaHoole I normally agree with your posts but can’t ignore that my grandparents except one died in their early 50s. The other made it to her 80s never seeing a doctor.

[Phoebe Kerin @plk079]

@TrickyDicky1989 @PicturesFoIder 😂 I did burst out laughing

[Phoebe Kerin @plk079]

@lawbal44 What drenches have you been using?

[Phoebe Kerin @plk079]

@burgess_ag I heard yesterday Harrington near Newcastle- $3.30!!

[Phoebe Kerin @plk079]

Excellent to be educating about natural cycles and renewable resources but can we please be less patronising otherwise the country is simply doing its part in widening the city and country divide.

[ORDINARY GUY 🇦🇺 @Vir_Vulgaris]

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Credit - IG @farmerpride

[Charlie Blomfield @AMC_DirtDollars]

@hasselljpb @WheatWatcher There is bulk research, data and evidence supporting the message. Widely available if you're keen to research some more. This is my message from actual events, representative of a much wider problem that needs conversation and action.

[Phoebe Kerin @plk079]

@icareNSW ffs build a decent portal for employers to manage their workers compensation policies. Just copy Workcover Queensland’s WorkCover Connect and we’ll be getting somewhere.

ICare is still an unaccountable, useless part of NSW Government

[Phoebe Kerin @plk079]

@stationmum101 I love this!

[Prof Kathy Eagar AM @keagar.bsky.social @k_eagar]

@RhondaGarad @PeterCronau @abcnews I am not at all antisemitic. But I am appalled by Israel which is now nothing but a rogue state. And I am equally appalled by Zionists in Australia who are attempting to bully Australians into silence. The more they bully the more we must all speak out

[Phoebe Kerin @plk079]

@WagyuWhitsunday Mini Foxy! Apart from a blue dog you won’t find a more loyal companion and they aren’t as naughty as JRTs.

[Phoebe Kerin @plk079]

@fowles_james @stationmum101 @NtDrifter Been a lot of audits around here lately and alot getting stung for not having orange tags on hand ‘in case’

[Phoebe Kerin @plk079]

@stationmum101 I wish daily for a clone…lucky you!

[Phoebe Kerin @plk079]

@MartinMurray_Ag It makes me sad the amount of Facebook comments blaming the victims rather than condemning the unhinged lunatic with the gun.