New BBC2 Back in time for dinner

moneyistooshorttomention

Does anyone know how many episodes of this there will be? - ie what will be the last decade featured on it?

Butterfly_Brain

It is six episodes mitstm x

Butterfly_Brain

Lol tin of corned beef, we have all had that problem!

honeythewitch

I could just about believe that the mother was stumped by a fifties can opener, but a perfectly ordinary corned beef can, as used today? :eek: No way!

Butterfly_Brain

Bright green peas in jelly oooh yuk and she pouredvit in the middle of the jelly mould.
Give me strength, these dumbed down shows need people who at least has a basic knowledge of cooking

honeythewitch

The pea ring looked quite revolting. Was it really popular? I love the blue fold down table.

Grumpelstiltskin

I'm waiting for the family to have a Vesta Curry to see if she can manage that.:rotfl:

Butterfly_Brain

honeythewitch wrote: »

The pea ring looked quite revolting. Was it really popular? I love the blue fold down table.

I can't ever remember my mum cooking things like that, we did have yoghurt and angel delight occassionally we did eat real Indian food because my best friend's dad owned a curry restaurant in London and we often ate Indian food and I remember her nan making chappaties over a small stove

This is more centred on middle class Britain not working class my mum had two cleaning jobs in the 1960's

Butterfly_Brain

Watching Rochelle's face is painful, she looks permanently constipated!

moneyistooshorttomention

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

Watching Rochelle's face is painful, she looks permanently constipated!

Now you come to mention it - that's true - and I was also laying bets with myself how long it would be before those bent-over shoulders translated into lots of neck and shoulder pain.

I've just seen the programme on Iplayer and was watching this one on 2 levels - probably because its the first of "my" decades so to say. My family came back from living abroad in that decade and I turned teenager - so was paying more attention to what Britain was like and viewing it through "outsider eyes" accordingly.

So I was watching it on several levels at once. I well remembered the house d!cor/clothes/music on the one hand and that all felt very familiar (my mother didn't have a mixer in the kitchen though or dress so fashionably). I recall the Vesta curries and Chinese restaurants (not that I had much of either of them personally).

The other level I was watching on was one I clicked into when I saw one of the daughters up-end a cereal bowl and drink straight out of it:shocked: and wondered if she had forgotten millions of people would be watching her do that. At that point onwards I was watching their manners too. I guess the type of manners they all have is "street" manners early 21st century style? So, my other level of watching was sitting there running a score card of everything I noticed that didn't "fit" and heading out to the kitchen to check how effectively a knife can be used if held that way.

I remember when bedsit living became the thing - though my own spell in them_pale_ was a few years later than that (so it was one of those baby cookers by then) and with a later edition of Katherine Whitehorn's book in hand about how to cook in a bedsit.

One thing that struck me is that its never a total "one year to the next" All Change situation or even one decade to the next, as things go at a varying pace across different levels of society. That 1960's styling of the house still exists in odd "pockets". I wondered how come the house of my last next door neighbour sold so fast recently - considering how old-fashioned it is and lacking in modern standard of amenities. It has just struck me that maybe one of these re-enactors literally living in a previous decade might have bought it - as it is such a 1960s time capsule house - so some people do stick to Style of an Era for decades after that decade is in the history books.