Remember when.......

[CharlieH]

If you love food but were a child of the 60’s you should remember most of this;
* Pasta had not been invented. * "Kebab" was not even a word, never mind a food. * Curry was an unknown entity. Indian restaurants were only found in India. * The only vegetables were spuds, peas, carrots, turnip, cauliflower and cabbage. Mange tout and Pak choi were made up words. Chilli was in South America and scotch bonnets were worn by old ladies in Aberdeen.* A take-away was a mathematical problem. * A pizza was something to do with a leaning tower.* Oil was for lubricating your bike chain not for cooking.* Olive oil was kept in the medicine cabinet.*Spice went in Christmas cakes (and so did peel, Yuk).* Herbs were used to make medicine I think.* All crisps were plain.* All soft drinks were called pop. * Coke was something that we put on the fire, we never drunk it and we certainly didn’t sniff it. * Ginger beer burnt your lips off, when you stopped drinking. * Rice was a milk pudding, and never, ever part of our dinner. * A Big Mac was what we wore when it was raining. * A microwave was science fiction * Tea was made in a teapot using tea leaves. The tea-cosy was the forerunner of all energy saving devices. Tea had only one flavour, it was tea flavoured * Figs and dates appeared every Christmas, but no one ever ate them. * Coconuts only appeared when the fair came to town. * Mayonnaise was called Salad cream* Hors d'oeuvre was a spelling mistake. * Dinner consisted of what we were given, and not negotiable. * Only Heinz made baked beans.* Leftovers went in the dog. * Sauce was either brown or red. * Eating raw fish was called madness, not sushi. * The only ready meals came from the fish and chip shop. * Frozen food was called ice cream. * Nothing ever went off in the fridge because we never had one. * None of us had ever heard of yoghurt. * Brunch was not a meal. * Cheese only ever came in a hard lump.
* If we had eaten bacon, lettuce and tomato in the same sandwich we would have been certified insane. * Eating outside was called a picnic not Al Fresco. * Seaweed was not a recognised food. * Eggs were not called ‘free range’ they just were, and the shells were white. * Pancakes were only eaten on Pancake Tuesday - it was compulsory. * The phrase "boil in the bag" would have been beyond our realms of comprehension. * The term "oven chips" would not have made any sense at all. * We bought milk and cream at the same time, in the same bottle, before you gave it a shake.* Prunes were purely medicinal. * Pineapples only came in chunks in a tin.* We didn't eat Croissants because we couldn't pronounce them, we couldn't spell them, and we didn't know what they were. * for Baguettes (see Croissants). * Garlic was used to ward off vampires in films, but never to be eaten. * Water came out of the tap; if someone had suggested bottling it and charging for it
they would have been locked up.

[blackcab]

9 minutes ago, CharlieH said:

The only vegetables were spuds, peas, carrots, turnip, cauliflower and cabbage.

 

And brussel sprouts.

[bobandyson]

Missed meals meant a note on the dining table saying 'Dinner's in the oven'.

[bobandyson]

Pop was either lemonade, cream soda or dandelion & burdock.

[chickenslegs]

17 minutes ago, blackcab said:

 

And brussel sprouts.

Only at Christmas in our house.

[chickenslegs]

47 minutes ago, CharlieH said:

Curry was an unknown entity.

Until "Vesta" changed everything ...

 

Edit to say: Just remembered that my Dad (did his National Service in Malaya) used to add sliced banana to his Vesta curries.

Edited June 8, 2021 by chickenslegs

[chickenslegs]

11 minutes ago, bobandyson said:

Pop was either lemonade, cream soda or dandelion & burdock.

Don't forget Tizer and Jusoda.

And, up north, Irn Bru.

 

[RichardColeman]

Admit it, the best things about vegetables when you were young was they were ammunition for your spud gun !

[lodstewart]

babies had National Dried Milk, older kids had Orange concentrate and Cod liver Oil, and a spoonful of malt.

every kid at school had 3rd of a pint of whole milk everyday. the milkman came every day, rag & bone man every week.

at Christmas we stuck together our own paper chains. In London us boys had seasons for everything , ie

conker season, noisy scooter season, sometimes fishing, scrumping  , Hop picking holidays. ah!   carefree days

always important to talk of the memories , otherwise they are gone forever, and none of the younger ones can

talk of what we told them

[Airalee]

The first commercial mayonnaise brand was started by a Philadelphia delicatessen owner named Schlorer. Taking his wife’s mayonnaise recipe, Schlorer added preservatives and made up large batches in the back room of his store, for sale to the public. He called it Mrs. Schlorer’s, trademarking the name in 1911. Schlorer’s was not only the first commercially prepared and sold mayonnaise, but also the first to be packed into glass jars.

 

https://culinarylore.com/food-history:what-was-the-first-commercial-mayonnaise/

 

“Shish kebab is an English rendering of Turkish: şiş (sword or skewer) and kebap (roasted meat dish), that dates from around the beginning of the 20th century.[6][7] According to the Oxford English Dictionary, its earliest known publication in English is in the 1914 novel Our Mr. Wrenn by Sinclair Lewis.[6][8]

The word kebab alone was already present in English by the late 17th century“

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shish_kebab

 

“The word pizza was first documented in A.D. 997 in Gaeta[3] and successively in different parts of Central and Southern Italy.”

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_pizza

 

“The Industrial Revolution saw an increase in the availability of take-out food. By the early 20th Century, fish and chips was considered an "established institution" in Britain.”

 

“https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take-out“

 

“Modern fettuccine Alfredo was invented by Alfredo di Lelio in Rome. According to family accounts, in 1892 Alfredo di Lelio began to work in a restaurant that was located in piazza Rosa and run by his mother Angelina.”

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fettuccine_Alfredo

 

“Pineapple plants were distributed from the Netherlands to English gardeners in 1719 and French ones in 1730.”

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pineapple

“The origins of BLT are hard to pin down, but some claim it was developed from bacon sandwiches that were originally prepared for teatime in the English countryside since Victorian times. BLT sandwich first appeared in British cookbooks in the late 1920s”

 

https://www.tasteatlas.com/blt-sandwich

 

 

What was it like to grow up so deprived?

 

 

 

 

[talahtnut]

In my opinion we have had the best times, what will a child in these

days remember? No school, locked down, masks, questionable medications,

censored speech, gang warfare, I cant see them having any fun.

 

[Damrongsak]

Don't forget the 1957 spaghetti harvest in Ticino.  Fortunately, the BBC recorded this for history.

 

 

 

Edited June 8, 2021 by Damrongsak

[lodstewart]

2 hours ago, Airalee said:

The first commercial mayonnaise brand was started by a Philadelphia delicatessen owner named Schlorer. Taking his wife’s mayonnaise recipe, Schlorer added preservatives and made up large batches in the back room of his store, for sale to the public. He called it Mrs. Schlorer’s, trademarking the name in 1911. Schlorer’s was not only the first commercially prepared and sold mayonnaise, but also the first to be packed into glass jars.

 

https://culinarylore.com/food-history:what-was-the-first-commercial-mayonnaise/

 

“Shish kebab is an English rendering of Turkish: şiş (sword or skewer) and kebap (roasted meat dish), that dates from around the beginning of the 20th century.[6][7] According to the Oxford English Dictionary, its earliest known publication in English is in the 1914 novel Our Mr. Wrenn by Sinclair Lewis.[6][8]

The word kebab alone was already present in English by the late 17th century“

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shish_kebab

 

“The word pizza was first documented in A.D. 997 in Gaeta[3] and successively in different parts of Central and Southern Italy.”

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_pizza

 

“The Industrial Revolution saw an increase in the availability of take-out food. By the early 20th Century, fish and chips was considered an "established institution" in Britain.”

 

“https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take-out“

 

“Modern fettuccine Alfredo was invented by Alfredo di Lelio in Rome. According to family accounts, in 1892 Alfredo di Lelio began to work in a restaurant that was located in piazza Rosa and run by his mother Angelina.”

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fettuccine_Alfredo

 

“Pineapple plants were distributed from the Netherlands to English gardeners in 1719 and French ones in 1730.”

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pineapple

“The origins of BLT are hard to pin down, but some claim it was developed from bacon sandwiches that were originally prepared for teatime in the English countryside since Victorian times. BLT sandwich first appeared in British cookbooks in the late 1920s”

 

https://www.tasteatlas.com/blt-sandwich

 

 

What was it like to grow up so deprived?

 

 

 

 

 

you never understood rationing did you ?

[faraday]

4 hours ago, lodstewart said:

Cod liver Oil, and a spoonful of malt.

every kid at school had 3rd of a pint of whole milk everyday

 

I can still remember the taste of malt, fills me with dread even now,  at the thought of having a spoonful....must be around 60 years ago! 

 

Cod Liver oil was bearable, somewhat like banging your head against the wall; it's nice when it stops!

 

School milk in the little bottles.... awesome.

 

All those memories....☺️

 

Slightly tearful.

 

 

What about when you got sick..? Mum would open the little packet, dissolve the white, strange smelling powder in water, & 5 minutes later I'd be fast asleep.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[bkk6060]

Lived off Swanson Chicken dinners.

[adammike]

An upturned orange box for cricket in the street during the summer,football was strictly a winter game.I still remember when you could get one sweet for a farthing,4 a penny.vimto down south.

[chalawaan]

5 hours ago, chickenslegs said:

Only at Christmas in our house.

Yeah! Ours too. LOL.

[Jonathan Fairfield]

A world without pasta, pizza, sushi and curry sounds absolutely horrific. 

[Rampant Rabbit]

I remember when men were  men and women were  women and  there was  nothing inbetween, now there's  about 4000 sexes, comical/stupid. Where the best man for the job got it ( not person) where there were manhole  covers.

[Rampant Rabbit]

2 hours ago, faraday said:

School milk in the little bottles.... awesome.

Thatcher  milk snatcher although I liked  her.

[Rampant Rabbit]

4 hours ago, talahtnut said:

In my opinion we have had the best times, what will a child in these

days remember? No school, locked down, masks, questionable medications,

censored speech, gang warfare, I cant see them having any fun.

 

Think the  real issue  is the population,and endless  rape  of the planet, simply  cant go  on and they think electric  cars and tesla  will save the world.

[worgeordie]

That's when kids played outside till it became dark, mother's did not worry, they knew you would be home when you were

hungry...... now they all seem to be staring into the screen of asmart phone or computer, .....we played in the muck , now kids

have all kinds of allergies ,   it was the best of times..

 

regards worgeordie

[Rampant Rabbit]

19 minutes ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

A world without pasta, pizza, sushi and curry

Would make everyone thinner rememember when you were  young EVERYONE was  thin, well certainly in the late 60's onwards.

[faraday]

Just now, Rampant Rabbit said:

Thatcher  milk snatcher although I liked  her.

Yup, harsh but fair, bit like Uncle Genghis.

 

????????????????

 

Moving on.....????

 

Post decimalisation, 4 gallons of 4 star £1.44p

[Rampant Rabbit]

1 minute ago, faraday said:

Yup, harsh but fair, bit like Uncle Genghis.

 

????????????????

 

Moving on.....????

 

Post decimalisation, 4 gallons of 4 star £1.44p

How about 5  star remember that!

[CharlieH]

2 minutes ago, worgeordie said:

That's when kids played outside till it became dark, mother's did not worry, they knew you would be home when you were

hungry...... now they all seem to be staring into the screen of asmart phone or computer, .....we played in the muck , now kids

have all kinds of allergies ,   it was the best of times..

 

regards worgeordie

When the street lights came on was the signal to go home ????

[Rampant Rabbit]

2 minutes ago, faraday said:

Yup, harsh but fair, bit like Uncle Genghis.

 

????????????????

 

Moving on.....????

 

Post decimalisation, 4 gallons of 4 star £1.44p

Then they cunningly  later changed it to litres to make it less noticeable that the prices were rocketing.

[Rampant Rabbit]

5 minutes ago, worgeordie said:

now kids

have all kinds of allergies

Incredible isn't  it!

[faraday]

Just now, Rampant Rabbit said:

Now everyone's a paedophile  apparently.

Leon Brittain & Ted Heath.... truths only coming out now.

 

Let's discuss happy times though, otherwise some unmentionable members will turn this into the predictable spite-fest.

 

Moving on...

 

Never did like 'Dandelion & Burdock'.

What on earth is a 'Burdock' ? Dandelions made you pee the bed!! ????????

[faraday]

4 minutes ago, CharlieH said:

When the street lights came on was the signal to go home ????

Unless some local ruffian had been successful with his catapult!

 

"No Officer, that catapult belongs to my mate" ????