New BBC2 Back in time for dinner

joedenise

I remember some of that JackieO but particularly cleaning the brass but it was for my nan and not my mum - mum hated brass! I don't like it either but I do have one piece from my nan - the 3 wise monkeys (hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil) - could do with a good clean but I like to think of it as a patena!

My brass cleaning was always Saturday mornings and alternate Saturdays I used to have to clean my nan's windows, she lived in a basement flat - back and front - as I was the one of us kids short enough to get under the metal rods over the the windows at the back!

I'm a bit younger than you and didn't have to do as many chores other than keeping my half of the bedroom tidy (shared with older sister) and helping with laying the table, washing up etc.

My kids didn't have to do much other than keeping their rooms tidy and making sure they put their washing into the washbin as I refused to pick up dirty clothes off their bedroom floor; if it wasn't in the bin it didn't get washed, full stop. It took a while to get them to do this until they both ended up without PE kit at one time of another.

However I wonder if I did make them do enough because their kids don't do even as much as mine did.

Denise

Bathory

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2593417/Larder-time-forgot-Cupboard-Hove-opened-1970s-laden-dated-treats-vintage-packaging.html

Sorry I'm rubbish at posting links but have read this article about a well stocked abandoned food cupboard that was discovered last year after what is thought to be from about 40 years ago. I thought some may like to see it if you haven't already.

I grew up as a kid in the 70's so will be more familiar with food from that era. I recall eating a lot of processed rubbish although we always had sunday dinners with the leftovers on monday - usually beef or lamb and fried leftover mash with very thick gravy (never had chicken though for some reason). I also remember that kind of tin opener.

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I'm all for ignoring BBD dates but even I would baulk at eating this stuff :):)

Out,_Vile_Jelly

JackieO wrote: »

Now to me a 'fancy man' was someone who made cakes that were sold in posh bakeries (This is how kids thought in those days)

What a lovely thought- a suacy live-in lover, who worked at a bakery and brought home free cakes every day....

honeythewitch

JackieO wrote: »

I'm all for ignoring BBD dates but even I would baulk at eating this stuff :):)

I would certainly give the celery soup a go, and if a cheese and onion soup is lurking at the back I would actually fight for it!
They don't make soup like they used to, thats for sure!

jk0

I made my mum laugh at the weekend.

I asked if she had noticed the old packets in that larder. I said I hope it wasn't the original contents. Can you imagine eating 60 year old Weetabix?

Butterfly_Brain

Bathory wrote: »

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2593417/Larder-time-forgot-Cupboard-Hove-opened-1970s-laden-dated-treats-vintage-packaging.html

Sorry I'm rubbish at posting links but have read this article about a well stocked abandoned food cupboard that was discovered last year after what is thought to be from about 40 years ago. I thought some may like to see it if you haven't already.

I grew up as a kid in the 70's so will be more familiar with food from that era. I recall eating a lot of processed rubbish although we always had sunday dinners with the leftovers on monday - usually beef or lamb and fried leftover mash with very thick gravy (never had chicken though for some reason). I also remember that kind of tin opener.

That is because chicken in those days was the most expensive meat.

Butterfly_Brain

Don't forget it is on again tonight at 8pm girls and boys

Mojisola

maman wrote: »

I think it was very common for anyone who had the money up front to have a weekly order and often delivered. They might place the order over the phone or write it down and drop it in to the grocer. So all the basics and heavy stuff were delivered and they could just saunter off with the shopping basket on a daily basis for some fresh stuff/odds and ends.

My parents had a shop and quite a few customers had a regular order delivered every Friday. They all had little books with their regular order in and, if they wanted anything extra, would come in during the week and add it to that week's order or take it home with them if it wasn't perishable goods.

Hardly anyone had phones. We did because of the shop and so also took messages for customers - we kids would often get sent round to customers to tell Mrs X that she needed to phone another family member. She would go to the public phone box or, if it was something serious, come back to the shop with us and use ours - my Mum being on hand to provide comfort and advice if it was bad news.

Butterfly_Brain

I found the supersizers eat the fifties which is another look at the meals of those days
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTdRLPN3ZGY