If you have seen this before, it will still make you smile.....

For those who are old enough to remember - enjoy.
For the rest - it's a history lesson...!!

Very surprising how time and memory has taken its toll.
Have things really changed this much in our time?

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EATING IN THE UK IN THE FIFTIES
   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!

Very good .

We did have curry in the fifties. It was hot, spicy mince with sultanas in it and it always left a yellow stain on your plate. I used to love Camp coffee. Grapes were only available after the Harvest Festival display in church was taken down. A real treat was mandarin segments from a tin served with Nestle's thick cream, also from a tin. And Nestle's was also pronounced as 'the little village nestles in the valley.'

What did we eat in the 50's?

Whatever was put in front of us ... or there was trouble!!

That rings a bell !
Cheers - Phil.

Condensed milk on bread, anyone?

the first Curry recipe in the UK comes from about 1742 I think

As a kid our great treat was lemon curd on bread and butter - never mind that the stuff was pretty well solid sugar. We rarely got Camp coffee except at my nan's. Usually at home we drank chicory essence, ersatz stuff 

Not quite as old as some of my fellow posters but I do remember 'sweets' made of a lump of butter (salted of course) rolled in sugar...

And 'proper' licqourice sticks

Greetings

Some of these are pretty familiar from when I was vey young in the 1960s growing up in a village.  

Regards

Edward

I actually like the Ersatz coffee stuff nowadays. And I am lucky I spent a lot of time at my grandma and got very well educated.
The modern "this is bad for you because" was not invented and people still lived happy and healthy. Less "allergies" and misbehaving little buggers as well back then...

Mind you I was young in the 80s...

Still pretty familiar when growing up I the stix in the eighties.
My mum met husband two who had travelled and experienced continental life, he introduced me to pasta, pizza and whitebait!
Remember my first olive based pasta, it was a hell of a shock, I thought it was a mushroom!  

Took me years to like them.

Some of the things that my dear old Mum used to cook.....I really loved when I was little.....
Some of them.....
Well....Now I know what the constituents were......Oh good grief.

Cheers - Phil

Quote from: Nosher on 02 October 2013, 02:07:36 PM
And 'proper' liquorice sticks

My mum introduced me to proper liquorice sticks at the Glasgow Garden Festival (All those years ago) she basically handed me a stick and said chew on that. Love the stuff, always buy some when I can find it now.

Ok - more anti-welsh  stuff.

At Broughton shopping park t'other Thursday the was a Traditional Celtic Craft Fayre. Cheese, cakes, honey, jam, perfume and CURRY. Curry ?

Explanations please.

IanS