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For those who are old enough to remember - enjoy.
For the rest - it's a history lesson...!!

Very surprising how time and memory has taken its toll.
Have things really changed this much in our time?

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EATING IN THE UK IN THE FIFTIES

Pasta had not been invented.
Curry was a surname.
A takeaway was a mathematical problem.
A pizza was something to do with a leaning tower.
Bananas and oranges only appeared at Christmas time.
All crisps were plain; the only choice we had was whether to put the salt on or not.
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.
Brown bread was something only poor people ate.
Oil was for lubricating, fat was for cooking
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.
Only Heinz made beans.
Fish didn't have fingers in those days.
Eating raw fish was called poverty, not sushi.
None of us had ever heard of yoghurt.
Healthy food consisted of anything edible.
People who didn't peel potatoes were regarded as lazy.
Indian restaurants were only found in India.
Cooking outside was called camping.
Seaweed was not a recognised food.
"Kebab" was not even a word never mind a food.
Sugar enjoyed a good press in those days, and was regarded as being white gold.
Prunes were medicinal.
Surprisingly, muesli was readily available, it was called cattle feed.
Pineapples came in chunks in a tin; we had only ever seen a picture of a real one.
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.
The one thing that we never ever had on our table in the fifties .. was elbows!

Your surely not old enough to remember Paul (LOL) !!

Hi Paul,

What a good memory you have, of course I don't remember

Couple of corrections if I may respectfully add.
Cross and Blackwell also made some fine quality tinned baked beans back then unlike so much of the
watery muck and sugar added rubbish that passes or f--ts as baked beans today!!!!
I think I remember that Birds Eye and Findus started producing fish fingers maybe in the late 50s?
certainly nice chunky haddock and cod they were then and tasty too.
Again today they are often tastless white lumps of non described white fish especially cheap brands.
Yep thank god many of us dined on some real healthy options back then!!!

Mike

The interesting thing about the fish fingers of the late 1950s (Birds Eye at first, Findus a fair bit later) was that they had to be eaten on the same day as purchase, because hardly anyone had a fridge and absolutely no-one had a freezer.

I've always been fond of fish fingers; even now, much to my wife's distaste, I quite like a half-dozen or so (extracted from a supply in the freezer), served with some oven chips and a dollop of tartare sauce. Oh, and some processed peas, which is the only acceptable taste for that vegetable. Fresh peas I can eat, but those so-called garden peas are a turn-off.