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

Andy From Sligo · 10-09-2018 11:47pm #1

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

Jimmy. · 10-09-2018 11:48pm

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

Andy From Sligo · 10-09-2018 11:51pm

Jimmy. wrote: »

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

God, I haven't had that in years - I wonder if it still tastes nice? ....

Ipso · 10-09-2018 11:52pm

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

Ipso · 10-09-2018 11:53pm

Jimmy. wrote: »

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

They just told you there were from sheep.

Andy From Sligo · 10-09-2018 11:53pm

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

Jimmy. · 10-09-2018 11:55pm

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

Andy From Sligo · 10-09-2018 11:56pm

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 ..

Andy From Sligo · 10-09-2018 11:59pm

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 ..

smelly sock · 10-09-2018 11:59pm

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.

Canis Lupus · 11-09-2018 12:00am

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.

Andy From Sligo · 11-09-2018 12:03am

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?)

my3cents · 11-09-2018 12:06am

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 · 11-09-2018 12:08am

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 ..

Vincent Vega · 11-09-2018 12:11am

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

Greyfox · 11-09-2018 12:12am

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

knife goes in right hand

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

my3cents · 11-09-2018 12:14am

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.

igCorcaigh · 11-09-2018 12:14am

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.

super_furry · 11-09-2018 12:16am

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

igCorcaigh · 11-09-2018 12:17am

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.

Andy From Sligo · 11-09-2018 12:18am

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 · 11-09-2018 12:19am

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 · 11-09-2018 12:21am

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 ....

prinzeugen · 11-09-2018 12:24am

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!

igCorcaigh · 11-09-2018 12:24am

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.

my3cents · 11-09-2018 12:25am

Milk was delivered to the door daily by the milkman.

Andy From Sligo · 11-09-2018 12:26am

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

Andy From Sligo · 11-09-2018 12:30am

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

igCorcaigh · 11-09-2018 12:33am

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.

igCorcaigh · 11-09-2018 12:35am

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!

prinzeugen · 11-09-2018 12:35am

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 · 11-09-2018 12:36am

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.

igCorcaigh · 11-09-2018 12:37am

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...

prinzeugen · 11-09-2018 12:41am

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/

Andy From Sligo · 11-09-2018 12:41am

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 ...

igCorcaigh · 11-09-2018 12:42am

prinzeugen wrote: »

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/

Penny bottles woz when we were luckey...

igCorcaigh · 11-09-2018 12:46am

Better bread those days, must say that...
Milk too. And delivered to your door with the Echo and coal, and the veg man.
You'd hardly have to budge, them days.

prinzeugen · 11-09-2018 12:48am

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

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 ...

Alpine were hit and miss in our area. Red Kola, Limeade, pineappleade, and who does not like cream soda!

We had the fish van twice a week, the green grocers van, the video hire van and the we sell everything van. All used old ambulances except the fishmonger!

igCorcaigh · 11-09-2018 12:49am

prinzeugen wrote: »

the video hire van

Oh lord yeah! LOL!

Andy From Sligo · 11-09-2018 12:51am

igCorcaigh wrote: »

Better bread those days, must say that...
Milk too. And delivered to your door with the Echo and coal, and the veg man.
You'd hardly have to budge, them days.

funny you say about bread because these days they impose a new modern way of making bread its called the 'something something process'* - cant remember what its called now but they introduced it to make more batches and quicker for the mass market, and it never tasted as good after that

*EDIT: found out what its called "The Chorleywood Process" ...

igCorcaigh · 11-09-2018 12:55am

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

funny you say about bread because these days they impose a new modern way of making bread its called the 'something something process' - cant remember what its called now but they introduced it to make more batches and quicker for the mass market, and it never tasted as good after that

Chorelywood? Yeah naff ****. Our old local bread was better, especially proper white. Skulls, cut thick with proper butter.

prinzeugen · 11-09-2018 12:57am

igCorcaigh wrote: »

You'd hardly have to budge, them days.

True. People think getting shopping/groceries delivered is a new thing. And if you needed something unusual they would have it in the van for you on Thursday!

The last mobile shop stopped coming round to where I lived in about 1998. New petrol station opened up down the road and it was not worth it anymore.

igCorcaigh · 11-09-2018 12:57am

Yeah, that's it Andrew.

We had some nice bakeries down here when I was growing up.
Come in warm to your door by the delivery boy each morning.

Must have been same up in Sligo back then.

igCorcaigh · 11-09-2018 12:59am

prinzeugen wrote: »

True. People think getting shopping/groceries delivered is a new thing. And if you needed something unusual they would have it in the van for you on Thursday!

The last mobile shop stopped coming round to where I lived in about 1998. New petrol station opened up down the road and it was not worth it anymore.

People didn't drive. You had local deliveries, and you knew your supplier. At least that's the impression I got as a kid in 70s/80s

igCorcaigh · 11-09-2018 1:03am

To keep with the OP though, for a bit of fun check out 70s Dinner Party
@70s_party

prinzeugen · 11-09-2018 1:07am

igCorcaigh wrote: »

People didn't drive. You had local deliveries, and you knew your supplier. At least that's the impression I got as a kid in 70s/80s

It was a shame to see them go although I think there are a few still going in NI.

We felt sorry for the guy and still bought stuff from him even although we could get it down in the BP garage cheaper and whenever we wanted.

I remember he saved the life of a OAP that lived alone and had fallen. She never came out when he tooted so he went to leave her usual shopping by her backdoor and spotted her on the kitchen floor.

igCorcaigh · 11-09-2018 1:11am

Beef dripping was for the poor.
Now, it's for hipsters and sells €€€

igCorcaigh · 11-09-2018 1:12am

prinzeugen wrote: »

It was a shame to see them go although I think there are a few still going in NI.

We felt sorry for the guy and still bought stuff from him even although we could get it down in the BP garage cheaper and whenever we wanted.

I remember he saved the life of a OAP that lived alone and had fallen. She never came out when he tooted so he went to leave her usual shopping by her backdoor and spotted her on the kitchen floor.

Wow, well isn't there a value system we are losing right there.

Not sure how we can create that again

igCorcaigh · 11-09-2018 1:16am

(I think we can create new communities about caring, and food, and people)

It's kinda a trendy hipster thing now, but I hope it can scale.
I do think we're reaching a turning point on capitalist distribution, of food and community, but It's only a seed.
I don't know.

I just want good bread again

Graces7 · 11-09-2018 7:14am

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

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

and a lot healthier. That was the decade I grew up in. Food was plain but wholesome. We always had fresh vegetables,often home grown, fruit always.

There was a local chip shop but that was a rare treat.

Many of us kept hens and had fresh eggs

Food was home cooked. No takeways. No junk. Chicken was a once a year Christmas treat. Beef was the Sunday roast.

I still eat much like this now. Prefer it. Never rice and rarely pasta. We rarely had stomach trouble and were a healthy lot.

Graces7 · 11-09-2018 7:16am

igCorcaigh wrote: »

People didn't drive. You had local deliveries, and you knew your supplier. At least that's the impression I got as a kid in 70s/80s

No deliveries where I lived ( Lancashire) Part of my jobs was to go for the "rations" as they were called for many years after the war. But yes we knew the local shops and who to trust.

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

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