Tottenham Cake, Greggs, and Trade Unions
Zoe Williams has written in the Guardian on Greggs and Tottenham Cake. There is of course no comparable Arsenal cake.
I was already a fan, on account of its Tottenham cake, an outsized slab of sponge with an unnaturally pink icing. That treat was invented by a Quaker in Tottenham and originally sold for a penny a slice, although that was 150 years ago; the price, at the peak of my fandom (2007), was £1.20.
Why do I love Greggs? Let me count the ways | Zoe Williams | The Guardian
Tottenham Cake may be a little sweet for modern tastes, certainly mine even if I do live in Tottenham A chilli version might go down well.
Zoe Williams is keen on Greggs as opposed to other fast food restaurants. I like their breakfast sausage bap. I also like that they are unionised, unlike some of their competitors.
Tottenham pudding as Martyn Day noted in the Guardian in 2021 is not something for human consumption. Just as now during World War two weekly collections of food waste were made in the area. At that time they ended up at the Down Lane refuse site at Tottenham Hale (very close to my abode) where they were turned into animal food as part of the war effort
It is important not to confuse the school dinner offering Tottenham cake (Pass notes, 3 March) with Tottenham pudding, an industrially produced boil-up of waste fruit and vegetables for consumption by chickens and pigs.
Martyn Day
Twickenham, London
Guardian Letters 6th March 2021
How did school dinner cake first become associated with school? That’s unclear, but the recipe bears more than a passing resemblance to Tottenham cake. Although Tottenham cake traditionally has pink icing, whereas school dinner cake is traditionally served with a weirdly thin, pink custard.
Tottenham cake comes from London. From the early 20th-century bakery of the Quaker Henry Chalkley, to be precise. The cake was handed out free to schoolchildren when Tottenham Hotspur first won the FA Cup in 1901.
Guardian 3rd March Pass Notes 2021
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