What Did People Eat In The 1950's

Farway

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I think the problem is they, like raspberries, have to picked by hand and this bumps at the price to a level that most will not pay for a humble product like gooseberries

You could try the likes of Waitrose, if they reach that far north

oldtractor

mardatha wrote: »

I like mutton too, aske dmy butcher once for it and he said oooh noooo you canny get it now. I bet you can but he doesnt sell it. I cant afford lamb!
I have a coal fire and wouldn't ever take a house without one. Heats the house, the radiators, the water, and dries the washing overnight. And carries on doing it during powercuts! Magic.

Come to sunny Shropshire where mutton is available and for sale in our butchers.

zaxdog

I get my mutton from the Isle of Kerrera, lovely chap I work with farms there :j

Glad to say I have never heard of the "Glasgow Soup".

I'm old enough to remember things like sweetie cigarettes and sweet tobacco.......

topsales

Fascinating thread! I was born in 1951 and when I went to school I went home for dinner every day - Monday, leftovers from Sunday joint, Tuesday, mince, Wednesday, fish, Thursday, stew and liver and Friday, fish again. saturday lunch was sausage sandwiches! Tea was often banana sandwiches or pancakes and jam. Breakfast was on a Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday , cornflakes. Tuesday was scrambled agg, Thursday was sausage sandwiches! My mum maintained that this routine meant that she didn't have to think! Saturday evenings we had a coca cola and chocolate bar as a massive treat as we watched Morecambe and wise...

RuthG

What a lovely thread - really enjoyed the last 1.5 hrs reading it:eek:

I was born in 1957, but much of what has been mentioned rings bells with me. Remember thin sliced bread? there was none of this medium sliced stuff when I was a child - you got thick sliced, thin sliced, or unsliced. My mother bought a food slicer in the late 60s and cut the bread with that - uncut was cheaper than ready sliced and she had to make it stretch.

We cooked our toast over the embers of a coal fire. Then spread it with dripping and sprinkled with salt.

Mum discovered a stew recipe (called 'quick casserolegazine. It was made with a tin of mince, a tin of mixed veg and a tin of condensed mushroom soup mixed together and heated through in the ovenake it for my children; it was grey and disgusting - never tried i again!

Occasionally, mum would heat pork pies in the oven and serve with either tomato or chips. To this day, I cant eat pork pies at all - used to manage when a child by slicing the horrible things, slathering them in brown sauce and putting them between slices of bread - a pork pie sandwich.

I became vegetarian for a short while in the 70s, but mum's idea of a veggie meal was cheese, cheese and more cheese. She would give me exactly what everyone else had, but instead of the meat, I got a lump of cheese. Nedless to say, my veggie days were short lived, which is probably what she intended.

She also made something that had the very fancy name of 'pomme de terre a la forrstiere'. It was from a Marguerite Patten book and was bacon, mushrooms and potatoes thrown together in a roasting tin and cooked in the oven. We also had Lancashire hotpot (made with lamb chops) and corned beef hash quite regularly.

When she was expecting my brother (1964), she had some syrupy orange juice from the clinic. It came in brown bottles and I loved that! Not that I was supposed to drink it - it was to ensure she got enough vitamin C while pregnant.

We had breakfast, dinner and tea. Dinner was always the main meal of the day. When I went to secondary school, I had packed lunch, so we had breakfast, lunch and dinner instead during term time, but reverted to dinner in the middle of the day in the holidays. I remember a friend asking me what I had had for my midday meal one day (Dad was at work - a teacher - so dinner was in the evening) and when I told her, she said 'why dont you have a proper lunch? To me that WAS a proper lunch (thinking I should have had my main meal) - dinner was what you called a main meal, not lunch. But she was posher than we were, so she had breakfast, lunch (main meal), tea and supper in her house.

Crisps were Smiths and came with a little twist of blue paper with the salt in. We added it ourselves and like an earlier poster, we poured vinegar in the bag too, and 'invented' salt and vinegar crisps, while watching Dr Who on a Saturday evening.

Eenymeeny

Great thread, I love reminiscing! I haven't had time to read it all, it's grown so quick but we've been chatting recently about what we used to eat for Sunday tea. You might be interested:
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2194567
Now to get back to my reading. I managed 6 pages yesterday...

Pollycat

RuthG wrote: »

When she was expecting my brother (1964), she had some syrupy orange juice from the clinic. It came in brown bottles and I loved that! Not that I was supposed to drink it - it was to ensure she got enough vitamin C while pregnant.

Great post, Ruth.

I remember this too - it was lovely.

And do you remember rose hip syrup? It was also full of vitamin C, a bit sweeter than the orange juice though.

Take_it_like_a_man,_sonny

Go on, I have to say, mum used to give us dippy sugar and rhubarb sticks. We would disappear for ages.

That is also where my name comes from, we had only two choices for every meal, take it or leave it.

Taadaa

oldtractor wrote: »

They ate proper food. No chicken nuggests no frozen chips much less chocolate type bars .. Proper home cooked meals. EG Cottage pie and carrots and cabbage. Sponge pud and custard. Rabbit pie. Offal was eaten eg bacon and liver casserole. Brawn faggots ox tail tongue. Heart.Pidgeon.

I am actually dreaming about HM cottage pie with carrots now....

My nan used to cook my granddad a proper meal during the day, and he would come home to eat it. She carried on right up until he retired in the mid 90's. Meat pie, bangers and mash, stew with dumplings, and always a HM desert like rice pudding or rhubarb and custard. Trouble was he had an office job in the later years and he didn't 'alf get fat - still he was always asked to play Santa at the Christmas Bazaar!

The only takeaway they ever had was Saturday lunchtime, we kids used to go and get the chips, and nan put some sausage rolls in the over to go with them.

ammonite

I wasn't a 50s child but my Nan used to make 'Grannies' it was a tin of chopped tomatoes with grated cheese and bacon rashers - kind of like a soup but with full rashers of bacon. It was then grilled to melt the cheese slightly.

Haven't had it for years. Anyone else eat this?