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Eating in the 50's in the UK....

Andy From Sligo

True this - Eating in the 50's - I am sure it was the same in Ireland too...

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Andy From Sligo

prinzeugen wrote: »

Frozen pizza back in the 80s & 90s were a million times better than now. Dont know why.

Had the bird issue with milk also. Was the "juice man" a thing in Ireland? We used to have a truck drop off soft/diluted drinks weekly.

You would leave the empty glass bottles out and a note just like you would for the milkman.

my brother worked for Alpine soft drinks in the 70's or 80's - yeah used to collect the empty bottles off the doorstep and leave the new soda drinks - I used to like Tizer (red lemonade) and Cream Soda and dandelion and burdock ...

prinzeugen

igCorcaigh wrote: »

Juice? You were lucky...

Well fizzy sugar filled drinks... All called juice in Scotland!

This is the company that used to deliver to us

http://www.bonaccordsoftdrinks.com/history/

igCorcaigh

prinzeugen wrote: »

Frozen pizza back in the 80s & 90s were a million times better than now. Dont know why.

Had the bird issue with milk also. Was the "juice man" a thing in Ireland? We used to have a truck drop off soft/diluted drinks weekly.

You would leave the empty glass bottles out and a note just like you would for the milkman.

Juice? You were lucky...

igCorcaigh

My parents would tell me about an apple as a Christmas present, maybe it's true.
After growing up on tripe and drisheen though, I can kind of believe it.

prinzeugen

Frozen pizza back in the 80s & 90s were a million times better than now. Dont know why.

Had the bird issue with milk also. Was the "juice man" a thing in Ireland? We used to have a truck drop off soft/diluted drinks weekly.

You would leave the empty glass bottles out and a note just like you would for the milkman.

igCorcaigh

igCorcaigh wrote: »

I always thought that pizza was the frozen discs you got from Dunnes in the mid 80s with the little sachets of dried herbs.

My first freshly made pizza was a revelation, but I still miss the taste of the Dunnes ones though, odd!

igCorcaigh

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

I remember my mum buying the family a frozen Pizza in the UK from a store called Bejam for the first time (before iceland was about) and I remember her eating it and saying "Foreign muck!" LOL - we kids loved it though of course

I always thought that pizza was the frozen discs you got from Dunnes in the mid 80s with the little sachets of dried herbs.

Andy From Sligo

my3cents wrote: »

Milk was delivered to the door daily by the milkman.

and the foil on top pecked by the birds if you didnt get it off the doorstep quick enough ... and a block of ice would push the foil cap off on the bottle in the winter when it was frosty

Andy From Sligo

I remember my mum buying the family a frozen Pizza in the UK from a store called Bejam for the first time (before iceland was about) and I remember her eating it and saying "Foreign muck!" LOL

- we kids loved it though of course

my3cents

Milk was delivered to the door daily by the milkman.

igCorcaigh

There was always that one family in the estate that had the multi channel first.
But then we got soda stream too. And kiwi fruits. So feck them.

prinzeugen

my3cents wrote: »

1955

The first fish fingers were made by Birds Eye in 1955 at its factory in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk and the official launch took place on 26 September that year.

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/news/fish-fingers-celebrating-their-60th-birthday-how-a-simple-staple-stood-the-test-of-time-10498489.html

But hardly anyone had a fridge let alone a freezer so if you bought fish fingers you had to cook them that day.

There was a good programme on BBC2 a week or two ago about how they are made. Clever stuff. And it is 100% fillets not munched up stuff.

Even Gregg Wallace was amazed!

Andy From Sligo

super_furry wrote: »

Everyone had to leave their house to have a sh*te in a little shed too. Progress is good.

at least if someone had a stinky poo the smell stayed outside ....

igCorcaigh

1980's Ireland was when we went eeeeew at the thought of garlic.
None of us knew what it really was though. Just that it was bad.

Or just imitating the posh neighbours from the other park that had gone to Spain. Fancy them.

Andy From Sligo

Greyfox wrote: »

I don't know how any right handed person does this, it feels really weird.

if I am just eating with a fork only and no knife, then yeah I have the fork in my right hand...

igCorcaigh

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

Coffe was that liquid Camp stuff - I think they still do it over here in Ireland but it was called irel or something like that. Liquid chicory it was ..

Irel, yes.In a glass bottle. We used it to make coffee cake, of course. Because who the hell had coffee.
Same reason why we had cooking chocolate.

super_furry

Everyone had to leave their house to have a sh*te in a little shed too. Progress is good.

igCorcaigh

Jimmy. wrote: »

In the 50’s in Shligo they used eat sheep testicles along with watery cabbage.

Cultural appropriation, and quite a slur on Cork cuisine.

my3cents

1955

The first fish fingers were made by Birds Eye in 1955 at its factory in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk and the official launch took place on 26 September that year.

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/news/fish-fingers-celebrating-their-60th-birthday-how-a-simple-staple-stood-the-test-of-time-10498489.html

But hardly anyone had a fridge let alone a freezer so if you bought fish fingers you had to cook them that day.

Greyfox

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

knife goes in right hand

I don't know how any right handed person does this, it feels really weird.

Vincent Vega

Sounds pretty ****e.
Hooray for cultural diversity

Andy From Sligo

Coffe was that liquid Camp stuff - I think they still do it over here in Ireland but it was called irel or something like that. Liquid chicory it was ..

my3cents

Canis Lupus wrote: »

I do. Next you'll be telling me holding the fork in my right hand is wrong as well.

Considered bad manners or lazy and American in our household not sure which was supposed to be worse?

No one cares now though.

Andy From Sligo

Canis Lupus wrote: »

I do. Next you'll be telling me holding the fork in my right hand is wrong as well.

just had to look down at my hands then and think ... no, anyway your wrong - knife goes in right hand

... how can you eat properly with elbows on the table (unless your double jointed?)

Canis Lupus

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

who puts their elbows on tables anyway these days - don't think my kids ever did ..

I do. Next you'll be telling me holding the fork in my right hand is wrong as well.

smelly sock

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

True this - Eating in the 50's - I am sure it was the same in Ireland too...

Sounds fxcking miserable to be fair.

Life expetancies were shorter.

Curable and common illness killed a lot more often.

But hey we had carpenters from china and big raincoats. Great.

Andy From Sligo

Jimmy. wrote: »

Because there was no Macdonalds or chipper every second building. Parents are worse too to be feeding their children fast food.

well a lot of parents give their kids money ... which in turn they buy fast food and shyte with it ..

Andy From Sligo

Ipso wrote: »

Those things always have that last sentence to let you know how much things were better back then.

who puts their elbows on tables anyway these days - don't think my kids ever did ..

Jimmy.

Because there was no Macdonalds or chipper every second building. Parents are worse too to be feeding their children fast food.

Andy From Sligo

people were a lot thinner in them days - no fat bastrds like they are these days (yours truly included) ...