New BBC2 Back in time for dinner

Fruball

I haven't watched these yet but have them all recorded - can't wait!

COOLTRIKERCHICK

I haven't been able to watch the programme all the way through, as that woman just gets on my wick... but I managed it tonight.. surely she must be putting it on??? no one can be like that in real life...


I like the idea of the programme, BUT they could have picked a better family... it really cant be taken seriously if someone couldn't use a traditional tin opener ( which she is of an age, where she would have used one when she was younger) and to think about using tin foil in a microwave!!!


think I need to lie down in a dark room....

Liz3yy

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

I haven't been able to watch the programme all the way through, as that woman just gets on my wick... but I managed it tonight.. surely she must be putting it on??? no one can be like that in real life...


I like the idea of the programme, BUT they could have picked a better family... it really cant be taken seriously if someone couldn't use a traditional tin opener ( which she is of an age, where she would have used one when she was younger) and to think about using tin foil in a microwave!!!


think I need to lie down in a dark room....

I'm a good 15 years younger than her (I hope at least!) and I know too well what happens if even the smallest scrap of foil gets in the microwave....I once softened some butter in ours for cake making and left it sat on the paper it came in without realising the wrapper had a little foil in it...( should have scraped it into a bowl really but hey ho) I damn near blew the microwave up and set it on fire!

Bathory

Food of the 80's was mostly what we had in the 70's. We didn't have any of the gadgets shown in the programme apart from the sandwich toaster. I started secondary school in '79 and going from a little primary school of 200 pupils to one that held over 1000 was terrifying. Did anyone have to back their exercise books in fancy paper? I remember the big school having a tuck shop but it sold pop, crisps and chocolate and I recall being weight obsessed as a teen. I was always trying out the meal replacement fads such as Limmits biscuits and One Cal soft drink which had a nasty aftertaste. I tried a 'Crash Off 10lbs in 1 Week' diet consisting of grapefruit with no sugar, lettuce, boiled eggs and melba toast. I never lost up to 10lbs but felt very ill instead.

For some reason I vividly remember Home Economics classes at my school in the early 80's being a disaster. The worst dish that the teacher had us do was soup - grate a potato and carrot and boil in a pan with a couple of Oxo cubes. When cooled, transport back home in a glass jam jar where disgruntled mum advised it to be tipped straight onto the manure heap. Another time a kid had spilled something on the floor and teacher slipped on it resulting in a dozen rock buns she was carrying flying up in the air. I learn't instead to cook at home.

It wasn't until the mid-80's that I discovered curry via Manchester's famous curry mile and I had my first chinese takeout around '88. The decade was also my first time in pubs which seemed more fun back then although I never drank wine. At a local pub with family it would be Cinzano & lemonade or Babycham with a cocktail cherry in it but come friday nights I'd switch to pints of best bitter or snakebite & black whilst in the rock/biker bars.

When it comes to the 80's, rather than food, I personally have more fonder memories of the music that was around, the gigs that I went to and my hair do which ranged from a huge violet mohican to the big volume curly hair. I very much stood out in rural Cheshire at the time !

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Finally a decade I was alive in! We never ever had takeaway pizza at home, in fact it was only in the early 2000's that a Pizza Hut opened in my home town! We had fish and chips or Chinese takeaway rarely as a treat and eating out was occasional and when we did was in cafe's not restaurants.
We never had microwave food until the late 90's, and then it was a family sized meal like pasta milanese or shepherds pie which we had fresh bakery bread with, and that was as a friday treat (also because my mum had health problems and wasn't always up to cooking and felt bad about us kids cooking the dinner often). I remember my parents once cooking a whole fish in the microwave once, not sure if it was a success because they never did fish in the microwave again.

Kantankrus_Mare

I also started senior school in 1979 and we had to cover our text books and work books in wallpaper.

As I got older and into music, mine were covered in posters of bands that were usually taken from the centre of my Jackie magazine.

I vividly remember my French text book cover because it was Simon le bon.........

Saw him on top of the pops two more recently and good lord was he a poser?...you dont tend to notice these things as a teenager though.

Back to food.....dont think we ever had a takeaway at ours and I was introduced to Chinese takeaway at a friends house whose parents were obviously more adventurous than mine. I remember the pressure cooker coming out every Sunday and it used to frighten me to death with its hissing.

suki1964

Mum had a microwave in the early 80's (she was remarried at this time to a much wealthier man) I remember her going through the same scenario as Rochelle.Mum had those crisper trays for bacon and planned to do a full english in the micro - took about an hour and was bloody horrible lol Mind me mum was still cooking with tinned veg and smash ( she still does), I dont think she was ever a good cook

I remember Mcdonalds being a take away treat, but that was with the whole family, not a snack after school. The other place we used to go with my big sister was a pizza chain, long gone and I cant remember the name, where you got 2 slices of pizza, a jacket potato and a mug of coffee for 2 or 3 quid

I was eating out quite a lot from around 1982. Indian was meal of choice, used to go at least once a week I worked long hours with long travel times in the early 80's so takeaway became a norm for me. In the high street there were numerous burger places and fried chicken shops along side the kebab, indian and chinese. No wonder I went from a natural size 10 to a size 16 as soon as I got a desk job in the mid 80's Its only now that Im back to scratch cooking that the weight is going off me and staying off. Still love take away, but cant get it here so readily, its gone back to being a rare treat and no longer a way of life

Mum also had the coffee machine, I hated it. Always luke warm and no flavour, even today I prefer instant over filter

She even had the soda stream, might still be around somewhere. OMG it made minging drinks.The only one I ever liked was the schwepps peach russian - nice in a vodka

I bought my sister a sandwich toaster for a wedding present.You needed so much cheese in them to fill them out, calorie overload

PasturesNew

It looked like a right piggy fest when each person had a whole pizza to themselves... but I let them off as they've "not eaten properly" for weeks now.

We have to remember that each new house they step into is carrying all the latest/new gadgets and ideas - so not a typical house. That's why we can all say "we never had that...." for each programme.

We never had pizza takeaway at home. We were exposed at an early age to chinese food (mid 70s a chinese family took over the village chip shop and dad worked with lots of foreign people so was curious - we'd only ever have a chinese chicken curry and chips) and my dad had a friend from Iraq who invited us to his flat in the late 70s and we had a home made Iraqi curry there, after that we did eat out twice at an indian restaurant before I was 10 and dad bought a house and we didn't have the spare cash for that again.

My parents didn't have a microwave until the late 1990s. We never had a toasted sandwich maker. There were also no foreign holidays and no eating out at restaurants of any sort. I never saw/used a Sodastream either; I've seen them in car boots and in shops, but never had anything produced by one. Vienetta - we never had posh ice cream either; I've still never had a Vienetta.

We never had a video recorder; I tried to borrow one at Xmas one year and it was "banned" and I wasn't allowed to use it; dad said he'd never have one in the house, but when he retired there was a leaving gift list and he chose a video recorder (that he then barely used).

snoozer

To be fair to Rochelle she did tell her daughter that she was joking when she suggested using foil in the microwave. However, she is never happy - she hated being stuck at home and now hates not having family meals, it makes me wonder if she is as miserable in her own life.


I married in 1979 and had babies in 83 and 86 so this was the decade I remember most. We were quite hard up having only one wage earner so I cooked lots of mince, we didn't really have ready meals and certainly not takeaway pizza (although to be fair I don't really like pizza). We did have a combination microwave but that might have been the 90's, it was enormous and DD took it to Uni with her in the end, her flatmates christened it Chernobyl.

joedenise

jk0 wrote: »

Rochelle and those tin openers eh?

She couldn't even manage an electric one tonight.

I thought that too! Do they not use any tins in RL?

Denise