Remember when.......

[Rampant Rabbit]

Just now, Surelynot said:

Tudor crisps our way. Henry VIII on the front.

Thats 1970's

[Rampant Rabbit]

12 hours ago, bobandyson said:

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

Nope, POP  was a  real  luxury it was orange cordial.

[Surelynot]

5 hours ago, Rampant Rabbit said:

Thatcher  milk snatcher although I liked  her.

Iron Lady....may she rust in hell.

[Surelynot]

1 minute ago, Rampant Rabbit said:

Thats 1970's

Nope '61 onwards..........I was in Primary School

[lodstewart]

3 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Through some odd quirk of fate I'm drinking the same band of Tea as my parents were drinking 60 years back.

(and the same brown sauce)

 

but...it was tea leaves then, no teabags

[Rampant Rabbit]

5 hours ago, faraday said:

Unless some local ruffian had been successful with his catapult!

 

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

Catapult  huh I had  BSA Scorpion Air  Pistol ( with silencer) most powerful handgun in the world......well thats what it seemed  like, had to hide it from my parents  though, later  used in Strangely  enough, The  Man with the Golden Gun filmed of course in Thailand!!  Must be  getting old it was  Octopussy.

Edited June 9, 2021 by Rampant Rabbit

[Rampant Rabbit]

9 minutes ago, Surelynot said:

Nope '61 onwards..........I was in Primary School

Well  I used to run the school  tuck  shop in 1972 and they were new to the Midlands then, now  get to the back of  the queue you  oink  ????

[Surelynot]

Just now, Rampant Rabbit said:

Well  I used to run the school  tuck  shop in 1972 and they were new to the Midlands then, now  get to the back of  the queue you  oink  ????

North Yorkshire.....obviously well ahead of the unloved, backward Midlands

[Rampant Rabbit]

Just now, Surelynot said:

North Yorkshire.....obviously well ahead of the unloved, backward Midlands

Aye  up Ecky  Thump , Goody  goody  yum yum

[Surelynot]

Just now, Surelynot said:

North Yorkshire.....obviously well ahead of the unloved, backward Midlands

 

2 minutes ago, Rampant Rabbit said:

Well  I used to run the school  tuck  shop in 1972 and they were new to the Midlands then, now  get to the back of  the queue you  oink  ????

 

[Rampant Rabbit]

Just now, Surelynot said:

 

 

Think our  tuck  shop  bought them as they were cheaper than Walkers or  Golden Wonder

[billd766]

10 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?

 

 

 

 

 

But we never knew or felt that we were deprived as most kids had a Dad who went to work and a Mum who stayed at home.

[Airalee]

21 minutes ago, billd766 said:

But we never knew or felt that we were deprived as most kids had a Dad who went to work and a Mum who stayed at home.

My post was meant to be a lighthearted joke...nothing more.  ????

[BoganInParasite]

Using garlic was out there and the slightest hint of the fragrance in your house or breathe was social disaster.

[faraday]

1 hour ago, Surelynot said:

Swede.....every school dinner along with cow's liver.

And cold, boiled onions.

 

????

[billd766]

29 minutes ago, Airalee said:

My post was meant to be a lighthearted joke...nothing more.  ????

It still is.

[KarenBravo]

Things that are gone that I can remember from the 60's:-

 

Rag and bone men with cart and horse.

Frenchmen on bicycles selling onions.

Lemonade vans.

Coal delivery by coal merchants.

Personally buying fireworks when I was only seven years old.

Only two television channels -BBC1 and ITV.

All shops closed on Sundays with Wednesday being a half day closing at midday.

 

[colinneil]

I remember only crisps were Smiths plain with the little blue bag, then hey new flavour.... Cheese and onion, wow !!

Only tv was BBC, watch with mother... Bill/ Ben and the flower pot men, then the interlude.

Gawd, i am bloody old.????

[faraday]

[faraday]

1 minute ago, colinneil said:

I remember only crisps were Smiths plain with the little blue bag, then hey new flavour.... Cheese and onion, wow !!

Only tv was BBC, watch with mother... Bill/ Ben and the flower pot men, then the interlude.

Gawd, i am bloody old.????

Don't forget Andy Pandy - gripping stuff!!

 

????

[Surelynot]

Just now, faraday said:

Don't forget Andy Pandy - gripping stuff!!

 

????

Tales by the river bank.....

[faraday]

Just now, Surelynot said:

Tales by the river bank.....

As I read that, the theme music played in my head.

 

☺️

[Surelynot]

Just now, faraday said:

As I read that, the theme music played in my head.

 

☺️

Can't recall the music....but can 'see' the little wobbly motorboat....555

[faraday]

Hope this will embed...

 

https://youtu.be/tpiNwXBp2Fo.

 

Nope, it hasn't. Dunno why.

 

 

[Surelynot]

Just now, faraday said:

Hope this will embed...

 

https://youtu.be/tpiNwXBp2Fo.

 

Nope, it hasn't. Dunno why.

 

 

Worked for me.......sat playing the guitar......might see if I can find the tab....555

[CharlieH]

Many a Saturday I got thrown around the room by my brother thanks to this lot !

 

Mick McMannus .....

 

https://youtu.be/3_PFJMRn72I

[topt]

10 minutes ago, CharlieH said:

Many a Saturday I got thrown around the room by my brother thanks to this lot !

 

https://youtu.be/3_PFJMRn72I

That brought back some memories! Thanks 

[BritManToo]

11 minutes ago, CharlieH said:

Many a Saturday I got thrown around the room by my brother thanks to this lot !

 

Mick McMannus .....

 

https://youtu.be/3_PFJMRn72I

Don't forget 'Big Daddy'.

[fondue zoo]

7 hours 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

 

It's true, I must of shovelled a mountain of horse <deleted> growing up, helped in the garden a couple of hours a day, rarely if ever got sick with anything, being near a peanut wouldn't kill me etc

 

Edited June 9, 2021 by fondue zoo

[Robin]

Butter, Eggs, Sugar and full-cream milk,  Were all foods that were "good for you" and you could eat as much as you wanted. 

9 inch Black & white TV with only one channel  A big 'H' aerial n the chimney to impress the neighbours.