Eating in the Fifties in UK.

[Yorky]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Mq59ykPnAE

 

[jennyb]

I was brought up on curry (my granddad spent a lot of time in India), and we used to eat vermicelli rather than spaghetti or other pasta. And we did have a real pineapple once at Christmas time. We also had Hovis rolls - you remember, the ones that looked like miniature loaves. You used to buy olive oil from the chemists.

That is unusual - to be brought up with curry. What kind of curries did you have. Are we talking about the fifties?

 

[Pete]

Fish fingers used to bright orange!! So much colourant to make them attractive to children I suppose.

 

[Morning Glory]

Fish fingers used to bright orange!! So much colourant to make them attractive to children I suppose.

The outside breadcrumbs you mean? I think they still are quite orange (and these are the gluten free ones)!

 

[Elawin]

Were they delivered by a lad on an enormous shop bike riding up a steep hill ?

No, unfortunately We had a female baker who delivered bread using a red, three-wheeler van. It was not a Reliant, and she was not Del-Boy's mother

 

[Elawin]

That is unusual - to be brought up with curry. What kind of curries did you have. Are we talking about the fifties?

Yes it was in the 50s. My granddad lived with us for a while (he died in 1954). I used to get given rice with the sauce. It was a some time before I had any meat (usually beef, but occasionally lamb) in mine, and it was usually left over meat from the Sunday roast (which I didn't get either - I had Yorkshire pudding with evaporated milk). Chicken and some of the rabbits, even though we kept our own, were reserved for Christmas. Don't forget a lot of foods were still on ration when I was a youngster

 

[Morning Glory]

Yes it was in the 50s. My granddad lived with us for a while (he died in 1954). I used to get given rice with the sauce. It was a some time before I had any meat (usually beef, but occasionally lamb) in mine, and it was usually left over meat from the Sunday roast (which I didn't get either - I had Yorkshire pudding with evaporated milk). Chicken and some of the rabbits, even though we kept our own, were reserved for Christmas. Don't forget a lot of foods were still on ration when I was a youngster

Fascinating... whereabouts were you brought up? Was it in the countryside?

 

[Pete]

The outside breadcrumbs you mean? I think they still are quite orange (and these are the gluten free ones)!

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The ones I remember from my childhood were Sellafield orange! Positivity dayglo.

 

[Elawin]

Fascinating... whereabouts were you brought up? Was it in the countryside?

Hornchurch, Essex, but it was a bit more rural in the late 1940s/early 1950s (Hornchurch Rural District Council springs to mind )