Apart from the routine stories about food places of various kinds, some of the best fun we have doing Consider The Sauce is when a little lateral thinking or imagination kicks in.

Sometimes posts are generated by places or incidents we witness when out and about.

Sometimes they’re generated by conversations we’re having.

Sometimes, too, they bubble up and come to nothing or hunker down for some long-term hibernation.

Such has been the latter case with this idea until it was nudged from its slumber by a recent story by Ms Baklover at Footscray Food Blog.

My knowledge of the stories behind these intriguing glimpses of Footscray’s yesteryears is, in a very few cases, extremely sketchy.

For the rest, it’s non-existent!