How we used to eat...

[Marco]

Ah, that explains a lot and also why I can relate to very little of it!

Marco.

[Clive]

I took the list to relate to the 50s and early 60s, your late 70s Marco is way too recent!

[Marco]

Sure, Clive. I agree. I just read it and didn't mentally assign the info any particular era.

I'm surprised then that someone like Dave, who's about the same age as me, can relate to so much of it.... Some of it is virtually 'third world'. No fridge, for example... Jeez!

I suppose there were no inside toilets either?

Marco.

[Clive]

I can relate to much but not all of it. My memories start in the early 60s.

[Effem]

In the early 60's I lived in Kingston-upon-Thames and remember being dragged round the markets by mother to do the shopping. On each Monday there was a huge market at Fairfields where you could buy live chickens and it was my job to carry home this shrieking wriggling wreck upside down with a bit of string tied around it's legs. Despite her best efforts to teach me I refused point blank to wring it's neck, so I had to pluck the bloody thing totally bald instead

I remember too a small Mac Fisheries supermarket opening in Kingston market place and mother said it would be the end of the markets and small shops one day. She was right. Sainsburys at that time was still hand patting butter from a huge block, bacon and ham was sliced in front of you from the joints and they made the best cherry pies ever which a sorely lamented when they stopped selling them Woolworths still had wooden floors and gas lamps

[Rare Bird]

I immediately assumed the list refered to the 50's/60's why i mentioned the Spagetti hoax.

I was only a sprog in the 60's but my mother was very old fashioned so we were kinda eating stuff that someone in the 50's would eat.. Bubble & Squeak i loverly i still eat it now.

[Marco]

Nowt wrong with bubble & squeak

Marco.

[synsei]

I immediately assumed the list refered to the 50's/60's why i mentioned the Spagetti hoax.

I was only a sprog in the 60's but my mother was very old fashioned so we were kinda eating stuff that someone in the 50's would eat.. Bubble & Squeak i loverly i still eat it now.

My mum was quite traditional too André, but then her mum (my grandma obviously) was probably the most Victorian person I have ever known. She made her own butter, cheese and Jam in the scullery for example, she also cured her own hams. A real Mrs Beeton was my grandma...

Marco, the reference to cream and milk in the same bottle was just that. You have no memory of the milk being delivered and the cream sitting on top of the milk in't bottle?

[walpurgis]

Indeed. Gotta ask this, were any of you given toast and dripping by your parents? Winter Sunday evenings in our house would consist of us all sitting down to listen to the Top40 countdown on Radio 1 (with Tony Blackburn) whilst toasting bread over the hot coals of the fire and then liberally spreading the dripping from that days beef roast all over the toast... Very bad for you but absolutely scrummy.

You had to mix the brown jelly in to make it taste good though!

(I expect somebody will attach lewd connotations to this observation)

[synsei]

Love the brown jelly.. hehe