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Scrumping and Grinding
Gary M,
RE:> Thomas Farrell has gotten to the heart of the matter. Scrumpy is
English> farmhouse apple cider made from the apples scattered on the
ground in an> orchard. I believe to scrump apples is to snitch them
from such an
> orchard, as I think such cider was originally made with pinched
apples - a
> kind of poaching. But in the song, Pete may may meant making homebrew
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> hard to call.......Gary M.
I'm not Silicon Chip or Ciderhead, but your homebrew angle is
interesting, but I don't remember it referred to anywhere else in
Quad... I'm interested in your intpretation, where else do you see it
referenced or alluded to?
And I always thought the Rockers, not the Mods, were the ones who made
homebrew. ;-)
Every good wish--Tom Farrell