Our Famous Teas
We're really proud of our cricket teas at Narborough. Our secret is not to contract an outside provider to make an average boring tea every week, and having to pay them the sort of money that buys a Premier Division striker. You know, the sort of teas you often get at a "big club", which means if you play for a club like that, you usually get the same fish paste sandwich fillings, the same handful of cheese and onion crisps and the same Mr Kipling cakes at every home game throughout the season. I know, I've been there.
Our winning formula for cricket teas is to draw up a rota of WIGWAM's. WIGWAM's stands for "Wives, In-Laws, Girlfriends, Wellwishers And Mothers." A WIGWAM's aim is to provide a tea that they are proud of. This gives us a weekly "X Factor" competition on the tea front.
We give every WIGWAM £40 * a match to source the base ingredients from high class providers such as Netto, Narborough Post Office and Swaffham Market, but we also rely on what else can be provided by the Church Allotments, members back gardens, what gamekeepers shoot and what can be picked off hedges and bushes in the area. A47 Road Kill may occasionally also make an unannounced appearance, so that our commitment to re-cycling remains unblemished. As a result, we get a unique quality tea every week.
We have earned a reputation for providing a sumptuous variety of tea offerings based on what each WIGWAM thinks is the perfect tea. We seem to provide enough tea to feed both teams during a match and half the Village as well. What ever is left over is hoovered up by the rest of the village.
The perfect example of the reputation of our teas was illustrated by a game we had a couple of years ago in the Premier Division of the Mid-Norfolk Sunday League. We had neutral umpires for these games. For this particular game, we had one very experienced umpire paired with another who had just joined the umpires panel. The experienced umpire took the rooky umpire to one side before the game started and told him "This is important, I know the handbook says we take twenty minutes for teas, but when you come to Narborough, it's thirty minutes. You'll see why it's thirty minutes for tea at about 4.45 OK?" Obviously the new umpire got the message because he managed to allocate himself to us for another three home games that season.
Our teas truly are "probably the finest cricket teas known to humanity."
Our winning formula for cricket teas is to draw up a rota of WIGWAM's. WIGWAM's stands for "Wives, In-Laws, Girlfriends, Wellwishers And Mothers." A WIGWAM's aim is to provide a tea that they are proud of. This gives us a weekly "X Factor" competition on the tea front.
We give every WIGWAM £40 * a match to source the base ingredients from high class providers such as Netto, Narborough Post Office and Swaffham Market, but we also rely on what else can be provided by the Church Allotments, members back gardens, what gamekeepers shoot and what can be picked off hedges and bushes in the area. A47 Road Kill may occasionally also make an unannounced appearance, so that our commitment to re-cycling remains unblemished. As a result, we get a unique quality tea every week.
We have earned a reputation for providing a sumptuous variety of tea offerings based on what each WIGWAM thinks is the perfect tea. We seem to provide enough tea to feed both teams during a match and half the Village as well. What ever is left over is hoovered up by the rest of the village.
The perfect example of the reputation of our teas was illustrated by a game we had a couple of years ago in the Premier Division of the Mid-Norfolk Sunday League. We had neutral umpires for these games. For this particular game, we had one very experienced umpire paired with another who had just joined the umpires panel. The experienced umpire took the rooky umpire to one side before the game started and told him "This is important, I know the handbook says we take twenty minutes for teas, but when you come to Narborough, it's thirty minutes. You'll see why it's thirty minutes for tea at about 4.45 OK?" Obviously the new umpire got the message because he managed to allocate himself to us for another three home games that season.
Our teas truly are "probably the finest cricket teas known to humanity."
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