Sunday, August 11, 2013

In the UK in the 1950s - email jksw

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jksw 

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For those of you 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?

         EATING IN THE UK IN THE  FIFTIES AND EARLY SIXTIES
 
Description: *     Pasta had not been  invented.

Description: Image removed by sender. *     Curry was a surname.

Description: Image removed by sender. *     A takeaway was a mathematical  problem.

Description: Image removed by sender. *     A pizza was something to do with  a leaning tower.

Description: Image removed by sender. *     Bananas and oranges only  appeared at Christmas time.

Description: Image removed by sender. *     All crisps were plain; the only  choice we had was whether to put the salt on or not.

Description: Image removed by sender. *     A Chinese chippy was a foreign  carpenter.

Description: Image removed by sender. *     Rice was a milk pudding, and  never, ever part of our dinner.

Description: Image removed by sender. *     A Big Mac was what we wore when  it was raining.

Description: Image removed by sender. *     Brown bread was something only  poor people ate.

Description: Image removed by sender. *     Oil was for lubricating, fat was  for cooking

Description: Image removed by sender. *     Tea was made in a teapot using  tea leaves and never green.

Description: Image removed by sender. *     Coffee was Camp, and came in a  bottle.

Description: Image removed by sender. *     Cubed sugar was regarded as  posh.

Description: Image removed by sender. *     Only Heinz made  beans.

Description: Image removed by sender. *     Fish didn't have fingers in  those days.

Description: Image removed by sender. *     Eating raw fish was called  poverty, not sushi.

Description: Image removed by sender. *     None of us had ever heard of  yoghurt.

Description: Image removed by sender. *     Healthy food consisted of  anything edible.

Description: Image removed by sender. *     People who didn't peel potatoes were regarded as lazy.

Description: Image removed by sender. *     Indian restaurants were only  found in India.

Description: Image removed by sender. *     Cooking outside was called  camping.

Description: Image removed by sender. *     Seaweed was not a recognised  food.

Description: Image removed by sender. *     "Kebab" was not even a word  never mind a food.

Description: Image removed by sender. *     Sugar enjoyed a good press in  those days, and was regarded as being white gold.

Description: Image removed by sender. *     Prunes were  medicinal.

Description: Image removed by sender. *     Surprisingly muesli was readily  available, it was called cattle feed.

Description: Image removed by sender. *     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 at meal time in the fifties .. was elbows!

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