ot..how things have changed.

A game of football with your mates, was done outside, not indoors on console.


Can anyone verify some of these below?



EATING 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!

 

Sherbert flying saucers that took the skin off the roof of your mouth.
Blackjacks (probably couldn`t even use the name these days!) If I raced the bus home from school I could get eight for the (old) 2d fare.
Rock hard butter (bought loose) difficult to spread but handy for rubbing into burns, bruises etc. - never did understand why!

 

Born in 81, but an interesting read to see how times have changed

 

There was a crisp factory in Southwick road, and you could buy mountains of crisps wrapped in newspaper, just like chips, for a 1d, as you say plain or salted only, in those days.

 

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Can't speak for the early fifties, but......

There was Nescafe coffee in the fifties, my dear old Mam only used Camp for cake making.
There was Birdseye fish fingers then.
And rice pudding was the main dessert for our family after nearly every meal.
Didn't often see bananas but we had oranges regularly.

 

Can remember when Heinz launched spaghetti in tins whenever ti was. Tried it didn't like it and haven't had it since. Must admit that sliced bread changed my life, whenever a "new loaf" was introduced I always got a thick crust and would put dripping on it, had a paper round and my wage went into the family budget. Beef was the Sunday joint every week and chicken was for Christmas only.

 

Maybes could have been Tudor crisps before Smith's cornered the market. Many a time stuffed the blue salt twist packet into my mouth along with a handful of crisps.

 

Not sure, I seem to think it was part of the CO-OP but could be wrong, and yes the bag of salt could cause problems, especially at the pictures ( multi-plex ).

 

I was born in the 60s, not the 50s, but the one food I really have good memories of, and can't get any more, is rissoles. I think they were made by Birdseye, but my mam used to make homemade ones too involving mincing the leftover roast meat. They were lovely. I've tried to make them myself, but just can't seem to get a recipe that tastes anything like I remember.

 

I lived in Hendon as a kid, 3 families in one house.
We were the first family in the street to have a telly and everyone in the whole street came in to look at it.

 

Orange Jubbly.

For you young 'uns , it was a block of orange flavoured ice big enough to sink a small fishing boat.

Don't think I could finish one these days. Not with these teeth

 

Still about but but been re branded under a different maker. Don't like them so not tried them recently but they've changed the taste and texture of the fruit salads. I was gutted, fortunately I've stumbled across Chewits Fruit Salad and they're gorgeous, the closet to the old style I've found.

 

Half the e-numbers from the original sweets have been banned now.

Won't be long before Aspartame is banned now, Coca-Cola is on it's last legs pushing out this 'life' crap with Stevia, only Coca-Cola's lawyers have stopped this rubbish from being banned for the last 20 years.

 

Used to be addicted until very recently, don't touch it at all now. The calories I was putting away was scary. Plus I'm trying to be more disciplined with the stimulants I take on. Good riddance.

 

Was partial to a pick n mix at the cinema mind, before they were £40 for 100g of sweets. Aspartame is the worst mate, they put it in loads of 'diet' stuff, diet-coke mainly, drink a can of that then 10 minutes later you're even thirstier than before. I'm convinced **** like that is responsible for chemical imbalances that lead to mental health issues.

 

I think there's a link certainly, though I reckon they act more as an excelerant than an actually cause. I think they are a cause of behavioral problems in children though.

What scares me even more though is children's easy access to potent natural stimulants like Taurine and Ginseng. There's no way they need this **** and it's just putting kids on the first rung of being an addict.

The market is still flooded with all sorts of harmful nasties.

 

Stuff like too much caffeine mate, it f**s with the Thyroid gland, once that's gone there's no repairing it and then who knows what will happen after that to your mental health. The chemicals aren't digestable to humans, Aspartame isn't and neither is Sucralose, it goes into the body and cannot be filtered.

If you split a 4 litre bottle of diet-coke down into beakers with each beaker containing the separate ingredients you'd only drink about 2 of them if that.

I am far from Organic myself mate, I try to eat and drink healthy but I never stick to the diet for that long, but it amazes me the people you see packing 48 cans of diet coke into their trolleys at supermarkets thinking it's 'healthy coke'.

 

Tastes s**te too.


This **** sells like hot cakes round my way, young teens quaff it on street corners. It's going to **** them up

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Ha that's pure teeth dissolver that ****, never touch anything like that mate, used to drink a cocktail of redbull, prosecco and vodka and it would get me wired for days off a jug of that!