New BBC2 Back in time for dinner

Liz3yy

It got me how she couldn't manage to cook chips in the chip pan, I don't know whether she's putting it on for the show, but she comes across as absolutely useless in the kitchen

Butterfly_Brain

Nothing about the food shortages such as bread and sugar

Butterfly_Brain

I totally agree that the seventies was a great decade to live and grow up in.

moneyistooshorttomention

How it felt to me was that the 70s was the point at which the Road to the Kitchen divided and some people went off on the left fork and started cooking one way and others off to the right and started cooking another way. There feels like the start of a division in the way society ate.

At that point, I thought "Well I don't know just how many ways the Road subsequently divided off from the right-hand fork...as I went down the left one personally (yep that's where I started recognising items from my own way of eating - bring on that brown rice and tahini:rotfl:). The "left fork" has subsequently sub-divided off in all sorts of directions - conventional style healthfood/raw food/clean eating/etc...but, as I said I couldn't really say about what happened further down the "right hand fork" personally...

It will be interesting to see if this starts coming over more clearly with subsequent decades.

I guess the 1970s was the start of really "thinking" about food - rather than just taking whatever the shops/supermarkets turned out and making own personal decisions about what our personal way of eating is.

Kantankrus_Mare

Enjoyed the programme tonight!

My mam has still got the black and white homepride flour man in her kitchen!

I had a pogo stick and space hopper. Even had that mastermind game!

I can vaguely remember the power cuts but cant say I remember them having a detrimental effect on family life. Mother may tell me differently.

The three day week never effected us either not that I can recall....I guess because my dad worked on the docks and not in a factory or manufacturing.

Was watching with my son and his girlfriend and she commented about the kids playing out and thats probably why there wasnt many over weight kids around.

I remember there was only one tubby lad at my school ( and I still remember his name).......cant say that about many kids these days!

moneyistooshorttomention

Kantankrus_Mare wrote: »

I remember there was only one tubby lad at my school ( and I still remember his name).......cant say that about many kids these days!

I remember much the same on that too.

Another thing that was noticeable in yesterday's programme was that was when the concept of snacks seemed to come onto the scene. I guess people had always had a "little something" occasionally in between meals previously, but the idea of snacks being so prevalent wasn't around as I recall.

It now seems to be such a prevalent idea that I've even been surprised to see some recent meal plans which have gone:
- breakfast, lunch, dinner and 2 snacks

as, to me, a meal plan is just = breakfast, lunch and dinner

and I guess that's all part of why Britain Got Fatter.

7roland8

Yes still have a cooker like that (going soon thank goodness!) and that onion head and had a flour grader man.

How silly is she about cooking chips - my son in his 20s now can do that - its not that difficult or alien.

Rainy-Days

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

OMG! my Mum had one of those but hers was blue and I still have her silver tea strainer, she always used leaf tea in the 60's she also had a big brown glazed tea pot.

Yes, yes, yes same here, think my mums was orange - in fact I am sure it was. I still have the tea strainer and stand, the original solid nut crackers and her four segmented glass serving dish in the metal stand (which i will never get rid of.

I have mum's original glass footed cake stands as well. Never had a tea bag in our house until the 1990's and she had a twin tub washing machine right up until 1989 - drove me ruddy mad it did.

I well recall the power cuts and my dad being a three day working week. The Ford Cortina which was in mint condition brought back a big memory as dad had the 1600 GL but ours was in white!

Islandmaid

Just watched this weeks on catch up - enjoyed it much more, like other,s have said it was the era that I grew up in.

I,d forgotton about the powdered drinks, I remember my friends and I buying lackets of it and using it like sherbet

I also remember 'freedom' meeting up with friends in the morning, going off for the day, building 'camps', going swimming, drawing hopscotch in chalk on the floor etc - playing indoors was just 'boring'...... Even games like 'jacks' and a weird game which envolved putting a tennis ball down the leg of one of your mum,s pair of tights, standing with your back to a wall and swinging the ball against the wall either side of your head and between your legs to ryhmes we made up - ooh and cats cradle....

Back to reality....... Ironing is calling

THIRZAH

I grew up in the late 1950s and we ate very few snacks. My family were farmers and ran a nursery garden so most people were doing manual work- the children were expected to help out at times. We had a cooked breakfast but only one egg with a rasher of bacon or sausage with bread or toast then a biscuit with our coffee mid-morning . Our main meal was at lunchtime then we had a high tea in the early evening. My father and grandfather would have something-leftovers or a piece of cake at about 9 p.m.
We had sixpence a week pocket money which we did spend on sweets. Crisps were a rare treat.
One thing I did notice about the first programme-the 1950s-was that they didn't seem to have jam with their bread. I know things may have been different in towns but my mother and grandmother were always making jam. During the war Grandma made everyone give up sugar in their tea so as to leave plenty for jam making.

I was married in the 1970s and well remember the shortages. The year of the lorry drivers strike I was working in the centre of Manchester and someone came into the office saying that MacFisheries had sugar in-we were allowed out to get some. There was a pallet of sugar in the middle of the shop and everyone was allowed one bag.There were reports of people panic buying tinned food. There was also a strike of bakers in the big bread factories so several of us tried to make bread with mixed results!