Thanks, Andy . I get the 'Asders' thing - even the current Mrs. Mark58 refers to ASDA as 'Asders' - and she's from London! I suppose 'Kwop' for Co-Op is another one but that sort of make sense (just a running together of the two syllables) whereas 'Prellies' for Perilla's still leaves me confused. I would love to know who was the first Janner to come up with that one.Dunno mate! Just a Janner thing really. Bit like going Asders to get the lottos. Or Tescos.
For me though...since I was knee high to a grasshopper, it's always been Prellies...and it was always cod and chips, bread and butter and salt and vinegar on the table. Fading a bit but from memory, you sat down to eat upstairs.
As a kid, I also had another "favourite" and that was the restaurant upstairs in John Yeo's. Pasty and chips followed by a chocolate mousse! For the younger ones, John Yeo's was the forerunner to Debenhams and taken over somewhere around 1964/65ish?
On the subject of the 'Kwop' - and tying in with your memories of John Yeo and Debenhams - I am sure that my Grandma used to treat herself to a meal at the Co-Op top floor restaurant, at the bottom of Royal Parade, once a week in the mid-60s. Does that sound right or am I confusing it with, say, Debenhams?