Eating in the Fifties
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*Not that you’re old enough to remember!!!!*
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*EATING IN THE FIFTIES*
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* Pasta had not been invented.****
* Curry was an unknown entity.****
* Olive oil was kept in the medicine cabinet****
* Spices came from the Middle East where we believed that 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,
anything else was regarded as being a bit suspicious.****
* 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 mixed with coal to make it last longer.****
* 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.****
* Spaghetti was a small town in Bolognese.****
* A microwave was something out of a science fiction movie.****
* Brown bread was something only posh people ate.****
* Oil was for lubricating your bike not for cooking, fat was for cooking***
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* Bread and jam was a punishment.****
* Tea was made in a teapot using tea leaves, not bags.****
* The tea cozy was the forerunner of all the energy saving devices that we
hear so much about today.****
* Tea had only one colour, black. Green tea etc. was not British.****
* Coffee was only drunk when we had no tea.****
* Cubed sugar was regarded as a bit of an over kill.****
* Figs and dates appeared every Christmas, but no one ever ate them.****
* Sweets and confectionery were called toffees.****
* Coconuts only appeared when the fair came to town.****
* Black puddings were mined in Bolton Lancashire.****
* 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.****
* The menu consisted of what we were given and was set in stone****
* Only Heinz made beans, any others were impostors****
* Leftovers went in the dog.****
* Special food for dogs and cats was unheard of.****
* Sauce was either brown or red.****
* 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.*
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* 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 yogurt.****
* Jelly and blancmange was only eaten at parties.****
* If we said that we were on a diet, we simply got less (more for us).****
* Healthy food consisted of anything edible.****
* Healthy food had to have the ability to stick to your ribs.****
* Calories were mentioned but they had nothing at all to do with food.****
* The only criteria concerning the food that we ate were, did we like it
and could we afford it.****
* People who didn't peel potatoes were regarded as lazy so and so’s.****
* Indian restaurants were only found in India .****
* A seven course meal had to last a week.****
* Brunch was not a meal.****
* Cheese only came in a hard lump.****
* If we had eaten bacon lettuce and tomato on the same sandwich we would
have been certified****
* A bun was a small cake back then.****
* A tart was a fruit filled pastry, not a lady of horizontal pleasure.****
* The word" Barbie" was not associated with anything to do with food****
* Eating outside was called a picnic.****
* Cooking outside was called camping.****
* Seaweed was not a recognised source of food.****
* Offal was only eaten when we could afford it.****
* Eggs only came fried or boiled.****
* Hot cross buns were only eaten at Easter time.****
* Pancakes were only eaten on Pancake Tuesday, in fact in those days it
was compulsory.****
* "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 that they would
never catch on.****
* The phrase "boil in the bag" would have been beyond our realms of
comprehension.****
* The idea of "oven chips" would not have made any sense at all to us.****
* The world had not yet benefited from weird and wonderful things like Pot
Noodles, Instant Mash and Pop Tarts.****
* We bought milk and cream at the same time in the same bottle.****
* Sugar enjoyed a good press in those days, and was regarded as being
white gold.****
* Lettuce and tomatoes in winter were just a rumour.****
* Most soft fruits were seasonal except perhaps at Christmas.****
* 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 didn't eat Croissants in those days because we couldn't pronounce
them, we couldn't spell them and we didn't know what they were.****
* We thought that Baguettes were a serious problem the French needed to
deal with.****
* Garlic was used to ward off vampires, but never used to flavour bread.***
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* Water came out of the tap, if someone had suggested bottling it and
charging treble 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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