As The Workhouse Approaches....How To Do Everything To Avoid It, the Old Style Way

ChocClare

Ah, lettuce with sugar on. My DH thought I was making it up when I told him about this. He is Johnny Foreigner and eyes much English cuisine with suspicion (probably with some good reason, judging by the stuff we were eating in the sixties and seventies) though he does like a proper roast chicken with bread sauce and all the trimmings.

I was telling the kids the other day that I had never had a takeaway before I met their dad - I'd never eaten a "proper" Indian meal before then either. And that was in 1980! I think people didn't really "do" takeaways so much - we never even had fish and chips, though we kids might buy a portion of chips to eat on the way home from the cinema. By the time I was eighteen, kebabs were coming in...

My mum thought she was the height of modern cool in that we occasionally had a Vesta Chow Mein, complete with those plastic bread tie-things which you chucked into hot oil and expanded into some kind of crackers... Mind you, I can remember the new taste sensation of... yoghurt. Mmm. Ski-licious....

Mind you, my mum had to close the house to neighbours whenever we came back from holiday as she would always buy brie - couldn't get it in this country - and so everyone thought she was decidedly suspect. AND she had garlic in the house..:rotfl:

flowertotmum

Hello everyone..just a quickie to say thanks for all the good wishes for today...it has been a lovely day..how sweet is this my oldest dd she knows me so well...she has bought me the worlds biggest jam pan..i wondered what the heck it was in a huge box..its lovely and i'm sooo excited to use it...my other dd got us a beautiful silver picture frame and sterling silver trinket box..both so lovely..my other dd couldn't think of anything bless her and so gave us some money to buy what we liked...its gone in the tin and when we think of something we'll get it...my brothers sent cards and flowers plus a bottle of champers..and told us not to plan tea tonight..wondered what they were up to and lo and behold a huge chinese meal turned up at 5 o clock..with compliments of my brothers all paid for...i'm on the verge of crying lol...i have had a great day with the man i love and surrounded by my family..
Good grief if i'm crying now god knows what i'll be like on thursday when its my birthday...
O yes meant to say..i'm soo glad we only went to the church for my brothers wedding on saturday..it seems as nearly everyone that went to the reception has come down with food poisoning..my dd's included and nieces and nephews...phew that was a close one...
got to go ..anniversary or not i still have some more ironing to do...
thanks to you all...
ftm

Hardup_Hester

Redlady, I think it was you who asked for pics? there are some on my blog.
Hester

lizzyb1812

Crikey, Memory Lane eh?

Early Sixties I'd go round my friend's - we always went there because her mum gave us sugar sandwiches :rotfl:

And mum was seen as quite avant garde for using Vesta Chow Mein - my brother still loves the stuff! It was supposed to be a treat because it was in a packet and quite expensive but I hated it!

Only takeaway we ever had was fish and chips - and we didn't even take it away. On Fridays in the holidays mum would take us on the train to Leeds - we'd have a milkshake at the station if she was feeling flush and then we'd go across town to my grandad's fish and chip shop where mum would help out for the day. The house was behind the shop and had this huge cellar which was fascinating because it was where grandad prepped the fish and potatoes. Happy days

Lizzy

JIL

i remember curries getting popular in the 70s, my great grandmother had her first curry at the age of 97!!

PrincessTazza

HH - Lovely pictures and LOVE the dress - what a gorgeous colour!

FTM - So glad you've had a great day - what a loving, thoughtful family you have!

I decided to do something a bit different for tea tonight! Typically I cook a thai curry once a fortnight, or thereabouts, but today instead of green curry paste, I used a peanut satay sauce that I bought ages ago (reduced of course!) - blooming lovely, and with chicken that was on offer, a very cheap meal all round! Very happy!

redlady_1

HH you look proper pretty! He is a lucky man.

FTM - you softie

My grandad still has his Yorkies before beef and he is 85.

claudiac_2

I remember my dad loved those Vesta curries - thought he was so exotic eating curry! I thought they were disgusting, especially the bits of 'meat' YUK!
Does anyone have an idiot proof recipe for scones please? As the weather is so bad, and I have a two year old to entertain, I have decided to attempt making home made butter with him and I thought some nice fruit scones would be a good idea, but my previous attempt was not very successful.
Thank you

bellaquidsin

CC To this day, I have never had a takeaway or an Indian meal. Fish and chips, well, only very occasionally. I have very little to give up to be OS, it's just the way I am.

I worked for a large dairy company in the early sixties and well remember the promotion of yogurt. We were all given a pot to try but it was 'natural' and we thought it was awful - then the flavoured stuff came along. Now I make my own and can easily eat it 'natural'.

Bella

GreyQueen

The above is straight out of the greengrocer's mouth yesterday about 4pm; something had drawn me down the street to the Scruffy Centre, the run-down shopping place they keep threatening to re-develop but which is very popular with a lot of people because it is full of charity shops, discount stores and....and....my independant greengrocer's 3 bags for a £1 box, which is where just about everything I don't grow on the lottie originates.

Yesterday's haul was impressive; 2 bags cherries, 10 bananas, half a huge watermelon, 2 large courgettes, 1lb new potatoes, a mega pineapple and a stray apple. He'd thrown a few others in, over and above the deal. Love ma greengrocer.

It bounced me up a bit as was feeling very blue after 2 particularly poor nights' rest which left me slurring my speech and transposing numbers at work. Gawd knows how I got an outstanding performance review last week, because I'm running well below par. Anyway, after my ESP called me to the greengrocers and SuperGran visited, I felt a lot better and have got most of a night's sleep so look-out known world.

HH, saw your blog yesterday and your handfasting looked great. I think the red dress was a fantastic choice. People are so daft about insisting on white; it wasn't the norm to marry in white until the early twentieth century and up until the 1920s, blue clothes were for little girls and pink for little boys because blue was considered the more delcate and feminine colour. I think you should marry in whatever takes your fancy, including full-on goth black lace, if that's your style.

Jedi Your neighbours sound even worse than some of mine. A crack house closure was carried out a few doors down from me....interesting experience (not). We knew it was being applied-for but not when it would happen. They came down here mob-handed, too.

On a happier note, I am getting my new glasses fitted today before work and will then be able to donate the old pairs to a charity which refurbishes them for countries which are lacking in optometrists. If you don't do this already (and I bet you do) you can find collection bins in most opticians. It's a lot better than leaving them to molder in a drawer somewhere.

Have a great day, y'all.