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For the mature readers 23:18 - Oct 21 with 6654 viewsSwanseajill









Subject: Fw: Fwd: 50's eating

How times have changed......
For those of you who are old enough to remember, enjoy.
For the rest treat this as a history lesson!
Very surprising how time and memory has taken its toll.
Have things really changed this much in our time?

EATING IN THE UK IN THE FIFTIES consider that:t

Pasta had not been invented.

Curry was a surname.

A takeaway was a mathematical problem.

A pizza was something to do with a leaning tower.

Bananas and oranges only appeared at Christmas time.

All crisps were plain;
the only choice we had was whether to put the salt on or not.

A Chinese chippy was a foreign carpenter.

Rice was a milk pudding, and never, ever part of our dinner.

A Big Mac was what we wore when it was raining.

Brown bread was something only poor people ate.

Oil was for lubricating, fat was for cooking

Tea was made in a teapot using tea leaves and never green.

Coffee was Camp, and came in a bottle.

Cubed sugar was regarded as posh.

Only Heinz made beans.

Fish didn't have fingers in those days.

Eating raw fish was called poverty, not sushi.

None of us had ever heard of yoghurt.

Healthy food consisted of anything edible.

People who didn't peel potatoes were regarded as lazy.

Indian restaurants were only found in India.

Cooking outside was called camping.

Seaweed was not a recognised food.

"Kebab" was not even a word never mind a food.

Sugar enjoyed a good press in those days, and was regarded as being white
gold.

Prunes were medicinal.

Surprisingly muesli was readily available, it was called cattle feed.

Pineapples came in chunks in a tin; we had only ever seen a picture of a
real one.

Water came out of the tap, if someone had suggested bottling it and
charging more than petrol for it they would have become a laughing stock.

The one thing that we never ever had on our table in the fifties .. was
elbows!
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For the mature readers on 23:22 - Oct 21 with 5608 viewsItchySphincter

Loh still drinks Camp coffee. I just had food from an Iraqi takeaway. Unheard of back in the day.

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For the mature readers on 23:54 - Oct 21 with 5582 viewsSwanseajill

Takeaways in the 50s would be the chippy, good to see its still around.

I remember a tiny shop that opened in our local market...called Sainsburys, it sold just cheese, eggs and bacon.
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For the mature readers on 00:02 - Oct 22 with 5575 viewsoldgrey

I remember when they invented garlic in the late 60s.
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For the mature readers on 00:13 - Oct 22 with 5570 viewsRogerstone

I can remember my mum making a pizza (base as well) that was in the early 80's

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For the mature readers on 07:01 - Oct 22 with 5511 viewsEdmundo

Spag bol....luxurious Italian meal


😂

Staple part of the British diet now 👍

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For the mature readers on 08:24 - Oct 22 with 5478 viewslonglostjack

Fray Bentos and Smash and I thought I was Jamie Oliver.

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For the mature readers on 09:32 - Oct 22 with 5441 viewslifelong

Milk used to be in bottles, it would go off very quickly in the summer, no such thing as a fridge. Wine was virtually unheard of, if you were posh you may have had a bottle with your Christmas dinner.
Bread was sliced with a bread knife.
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For the mature readers on 09:46 - Oct 22 with 5423 viewsperchrockjack

Sterilised milk was disgusting

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For the mature readers on 10:34 - Oct 22 with 5400 viewsGreatBritton

Anyone remember seed cake (for humans, not birds)?
Semolina seems to have taken a bit of a hit too. And Vesta packed meals. And you don't see blancmange much either.

(Sweet tooth in those days, it seems)
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For the mature readers on 10:44 - Oct 22 with 5387 viewsperchrockjack

Vesta was the first "curry " I bought along with Angel Delight.

Yep, Ive done ok

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For the mature readers on 10:50 - Oct 22 with 5385 viewsairedale

Coffee is camp again.
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For the mature readers on 11:03 - Oct 22 with 5373 viewsStarsky

Don't forget...
Spam
London grill
Shippams paste
Andrews liversalts
And sloans liniment

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For the mature readers on 11:16 - Oct 22 with 5363 viewsJoe_bradshaw

Funny how things turn full circle.

"The best thing since sliced bread" was a load of bollux really. I haven't bought sliced bread for donkeys years.

Remember the spaghetti tree April fool?

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For the mature readers on 11:19 - Oct 22 with 5357 viewsthe_oracle

I still regularly make a seed cake( Caraway seeds) my nan used to make it in the 60's.. Still my favourite.
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For the mature readers on 11:22 - Oct 22 with 5356 viewsmonmouth

Andrews kept me regular for years. As did Sally Andrews but that's another story.

A bit later but - for mash get smash. Powdered potato that you add water to. What could possibly go wrong.
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For the mature readers on 12:08 - Oct 22 with 5326 viewsItchySphincter

Frey Bentos steak and kidney pie in a can.

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For the mature readers on 17:11 - Oct 22 with 5195 viewsLord_Bony

With Birds Angel Delight to follow ..fookn class mun..


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For the mature readers on 00:53 - Oct 23 with 5022 viewsEbo

Goblin tinned puddings. I dread to think what was in it!

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For the mature readers on 00:54 - Oct 23 with 5021 viewsEbo

Or a bowl of instant whip!

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For the mature readers on 01:39 - Oct 23 with 5012 viewsTreforys_Jack

Still out now, bloody lovely.
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For the mature readers on 07:45 - Oct 23 with 4966 viewsBrynmill_Jack

I can taste the suet and crispy crust just reading this lol

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For the mature readers on 08:33 - Oct 23 with 4948 viewsbuilthjack

A few pennies got you some black jacks, you ended up with black teeth!

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For the mature readers on 08:39 - Oct 23 with 4943 viewsSwansNZ

Smash and those burgers in gravy in a tin - do they still do those?

Pop delivered to your door. Used to have a crate of different flavours for christmas.

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For the mature readers on 10:13 - Oct 23 with 4920 viewsmonmouth

Dandelion and burdock...or 'piss the bed' as my dad used to call it.

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For the mature readers on 10:35 - Oct 23 with 4910 viewsPegojack

The Corona lorry.
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