New BBC2 Back in time for dinner

suki1964

Jackie, seems like the message is getting across at last, you can't beat the local shop

Don't get me wrong, I'm not anti supermarket. Indeed if we didn't have our small tesco our town would die a slow death. Even with a rescind and lidl our town still has 5 butchers, 2 bakers and a weekly fish stall as well as a green grocer and numerous local roadside produce stalls

Whilst most people here use the supermarkets, the busiest ones are the independent spars. There you get personal service, your bags are packed for you, a shop assistant will carry them to the car or taxi for you, or your shopping can be delivered to the door FOC , and they price match or undercut

The personal service we get in our local shops is bar none. The staff know your name , they can recommend , they know their product and if things go wrong, they bend over backwards to help

I really do hope that the tide is changing across the country and everyone gets to see their high streets thriving again


As for eating at the table, it's something hubby and I always do and I insisted the step kids did as well. They thought it was weird, they were used to eating their own things in front of the TV at home. I insisted cooking just the one meal and we all sat together to eat. Step daughter now does the same with her family, something her partner found strange as his family even ate Christmas dinner in front of the TV

lessonlearned

I enjoyed the last programme too.

I have more or less stopped using the big 4 supermarkets and can't say I miss them. I do a mixture of Aldi, the markets, farm shops and a few indies. I go to Costco about 4 times a year and do a bit of a stock up but even then I find im buying less each time I visit.

I agree it would be lovely to see our high streets come back to life.

Now I would like to see clothing manufacture come back again to the UK so that we can have proper factory shops. :rotfl:

I don't fancy eating insects much either.

They didn't mention hydroponics. This is where they farm fish and salad and veg crops together, the one system supporting the other. Not sure whether it could be done on a large enough scale though or whether it would be too "niche" to be rolled out into the mainstream.

Or we could be like Belgian relatives who used to keep rabbits for the table. I Once went to visit them when I was a little girl and spent a happy afternoon playing with a cute white rabbit. Next day it was gone. When I asked where it was there my aunt calmly informed me I had eaten it for my dinner.:eek:

It was at least 30'years before I could bring myself to eat rabbit ......

THIRZAH

Interesting comment on the programmes on the Tracing Rainbows blog. In the programmes they kept saying that people didn't snack in the 1950s or 60s but the blogger can remember eating between meals -school tuckshop food, biscuits with a cup of tea-at that time.

I was born in 1955 and we certainly had biscuits with our morning coffee and a piece of cake with a cup of tea after school. We used to take a couple of biscuits in a paper bag for breaktime at school too.

Mojisola

THIRZAH wrote: »

Interesting comment on the programmes on the Tracing Rainbows blog. In the programmes they kept saying that people didn't snack in the 1950s or 60s but the blogger can remember eating between meals -school tuckshop food, biscuits with a cup of tea-at that time.

I was born in 1955 and we certainly had biscuits with our morning coffee and a piece of cake with a cup of tea after school. We used to take a couple of biscuits in a paper bag for breaktime at school too.

And we could get detention if caught eating in the street while wearing our school uniform - if no-one was doing it, why was there a rule against it and why did so many end up in detention for doing it?

Gigervamp

True, but in those days it was just a biscuit or two, rather than half a packet at a time that a lot of people seem to eat nowadays.

The only time you saw people eating in the streets was if they were at the seaside eating fish and chips on the prom.

Mojisola

Gigervamp wrote: »

True, but in those days it was just a biscuit or two, rather than half a packet at a time that a lot of people seem to eat nowadays.

The only time you saw people eating in the streets was if they were at the seaside eating fish and chips on the prom.

We didn't have the benefit of living by the sea but people still ate their fish and chips out of the newspaper in the street.

THIRZAH

Mojisola wrote: »

And we could get detention if caught eating in the street while wearing our school uniform - if no-one was doing it, why was there a rule against it and why did so many end up in detention for doing it?

We had that rule too. I still feel uncomfortable eating in the street