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General forum area => The Euro K Club Lounge => Topic started by: TomL on February 25, 2015, 07:09:38 pm
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For those of us who can remember - wasn't life simple.
For those too young - you missed a great life.
EATING IN THE UK IN THE FIFTIES
* Pasta had not been invented.
* Curry was a surname.
* Olive oil was kept in the medicine cabinet
* Spices came from the Middle East where they were used
for embalming
* Herbs were used to make rather dodgy medicine.
* A takeaway was a mathematical problem.
* A pizza was something to do with a leaning tower.
* Bananas and oranges only appeared at Christmas time.
* The only vegetables known to us were spuds, peas,
carrots and cabbage,
* All crisps were plain; the only choice we had was
whether to put the salt on or not.
* Condiments consisted of salt, pepper, vinegar and
brown sauce if we were lucky.
* Soft drinks were called pop.
* Coke was something that we put on the fire.
* 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.
* A Pizza Hut was an Italian shed.
* A microwave was something out of a science fiction movie.
* Brown bread was something only poor people ate.
* Oil was for lubricating, fat was for cooking
* Bread and jam was a treat.
* 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.
* Figs and dates appeared every Christmas, but no one
ever ate them.
* Coconuts only appeared when the fair came to town.
* Jellied eels were peculiar to Londoners.
* Salad cream was a dressing for salads, mayonnaise did not exist
* Hors d'oeuvre was a spelling mistake.
* The starter was our main meal. Soup was a main meal.
* Only Heinz made beans.
* Leftovers went in the dog.
* Special food for dogs and cats was unheard of.
* Fish was only eaten on Fridays.
* Fish didn't have fingers in those days.
* Eating raw fish was called poverty, not sushi.
* Ready meals only came from the fish and chip shop.
* For the best taste fish and chips had to be eaten out
of old newspapers.
* Frozen food was called ice cream.
* Nothing ever went off in the fridge because we never had one.
* Ice cream only came in one colour and one flavour.
* None of us had ever heard of yoghurt.
* Jelly and blancmange was only eaten at parties.
* If we said that we were on a diet, we simply got less.
* Healthy food consisted of anything edible.
* People who didn't peel potatoes were regarded as lazy.
* Indian restaurants were only found in India .
* Brunch was not a meal.
* If we had eaten bacon lettuce and tomato in the same
sandwich we would have been certified
* A bun was a small cake back then.
* The word" Barbie" was not associated with anything to
do with food.
* Eating outside was a picnic.
* Cooking outside was called camping.
* Seaweed was not a recognised food.
* Pancakes were only eaten on Pancake Tuesday
* "Kebab" was not even a word never mind a food.
* Hot dogs were a type of sausage that only the Americans ate.
* Cornflakes had arrived from America but it was obvious
they would never catch on.
* The phrase "boil in the bag" would have been beyond
comprehension.
* The idea of "oven chips" would not have made any sense
at all to us.
* The world had not heard of Pot Noodles, Instant Mash
and Pop Tarts.
* Sugar enjoyed a good press in those days, and was
regarded as being white gold.
* Lettuce and tomatoes in winter were only found abroad.
* Prunes were medicinal.
* Surprisingly muesli was readily available in those
days, it was called cattle feed.
* Turkeys were definitely seasonal.
* Pineapples came in chunks in a tin; we had only ever
seen a picture of a real one.
* We never heard of Croissants we certainly couldn't pronounce it,
* We thought that Baguettes were a problem the French
needed to deal with.
* Garlic was used to ward off vampires, but never used
to flavour food.
* 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.
* Food hygiene was all about washing your hands before meals.
* Campylobacter, Salmonella, E.coli, Listeria, and
Botulism were all called "food poisoning."
* The one thing that we never ever had on our table in
the fifties .... elbows.
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I am sure that 'our' Camp coffee had added chicory essence!
Brian (who wonders which marketing exec signed off on that one; sorry, no marketing execs in the '50's)
PS I am amazed at what has survived and is still to be found in my store cupboard; Shippams Paste, Fray Bentos corned beef, Marmite (for visitors to eat in the garden).
And the luxury of a tomato ketchup sandwich! God, we must have lived high on the hog!
I can remember my mum sitting down to tea one day and all she had was a sugar sandwich; if I remember right, it had just come off rationing and it was one of her favourite girlie treats when she was young.
My dad had a bottle of sherry and a bottle of port in the cupboard and we would all have a small glass every Xmas and every New Year. I am sure those same bottles were still there when I left home at 16.
The only women in pubs were barmaids and ladies of the night; my mother had never been in a pub in her life till I dragged her into a Harvester for lunch one day in 1994. God's truth!
Ee, them were t'days!
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As you say Brian, I used to have bread and sugar when I came home from school, it's a wonder I have any teeth left
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Oh yes I remember them well :D
But not only sugar sarnies but salt ones and conny onny ones and spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam spam, spam.
Bob
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I wasn't that old in the Fifties,but I reckon the Seventies was better...at least the first half of the decade anyway
New bike?
Would Sir like a single ? or a Twin ? We have triples if you'd prefer... two or four stroke?....or maybe four cylinders? A Six?...step this way...
And the Filth had more discretion as to whether a ticket was coming in your direction.
Plenty of work to go around too.
Too many good things to mention
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o yes life was simple in all aspects. But now we ride a K :'(