Mythchaser

[oldbloke]

This month's FT Mythchaser column is about the purported use of wooden fakes of raspberry pips in dodgy jam.
A quick Google will find it rumoured to have happened in Victorian times, or during WW1, or during and after WW2.
Best hit seems to be a ref to Sylvia Pankhurst setting up a jam factory to make the real stuff employing the women who'd been making the wooden pips, in WW1. But of course as soon as you Google her name you just get load sof politics. She mentioned it in a book she wrote in '31, apparently. None of this is proof it was ever actually true.
Anybody know?

Comments

[hoiho.livejournal.com]

Pips? I allus calls 'em seeds.

[vinaigrettegirl.livejournal.com]

Sounds like 100% tosh. Like the Scots stories of Highland landlords bollocking midges for profit. Nobody *makes* raspberry seeds, they're too small.