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goggle wrote: »

It never ceases to amaze me with programmes like this why they don't also have a "competant" family - you know, one where the mother, despite working a full time job, actually also knows how to cook/cope

I'm sure that I & many other people here could have coped perfectly well with opening the pilchards, making the liver & onions appetising and producing a spectacular "crown" dessert
Why on earth she served the children cold potatoes & liver I don't know, surely even a 1950's mother would have warmed them up - fried off in a bit of that lovely dripping would have made a nice tea & still adhered to the "leftover potato & liver" that was written in the "National food survey"

I'm sure showing people who actually could cope & make it look really nice/tasty etc would be considered "poor viewing" by the people who think laughing at others is fun, but I think it would be really interesting to watch

I did wonder whether that cold liver episode was staged for Good Viewing actually and thought "Well...I suppose if you're paid a good salary for doing the job, then you don't mind making yourself look a bit daft doing that....". Errrm...I presume people are paid for their part in this sort of tv programme are they?? I spent some minutes wondering about that this morning and thinking "Surely people no longer do a job of work - like giving tv programmers a programme to put out - for free just for the sake of being on telly?" but I don't know the answer to that question....

Rainy-Days

Must admit with everybody else, she did not seem to have much idea when it came to preparing and thinking ahead on the food front. She had a tin of corned beef there, well that would have made a fab corned beef hash, put some veggies with it to 'max' it out and that would have been a darned good meal!

It was the vegetables - along with Dig For Victory - that got us through the war and rationing thereafter. My late grandfather had two whopping allotments and my mum and her siblings ate quite well. Think there was something called a Woolton Pie - why did she not make that, she had a recipe book there!

honeythewitch

The historical facts were not very accurate. Offal was only rationed briefly in the early forties and it was one egg per person per week, not one for the whole family as it implied.

The mother was unintentionally funny and I roared laughing when she called everyone who says the fifties were better liars!

jackel

Can't see what all the fuss is about the can opener - I have one and never use any other sort (don't open many tins anyway but those ones with wings only last a short while.DH says there was a program on a while ago when they tested various openers and the old fashioned one in question came out top ! jac.xx

prosaver

well at least it stopped asylum seekers and migrant workers coming here.. maybe we should show them this and say ..here, you try doing this, we did.
btw... is it a programme about not being able to cook?
and looking at ungrateful people and spoilt kids...?
remember the war just finished 6 years ago.
maybe the programme makers should of made them live through a war first!

Farway

JackieO wrote: »

I remember having once bought in the early 1960s a tin of Olde Oak Ham which my husband loved and I thought tasted disgusting as it was surrounded by this jelly like stuff which made me heave I only bought it the once and it was at Christmas, and once used up I never bought it again.I have lost count of the amount of tims I have slced my finger on a tin of sardines or corned beef with the little keys .Also those tabs that the keys fit into were always breaking off grrr... Not much tinned stuff around when I was growing up as rationing was the order of the day.My late Mum wouldn't countenance 'black market' stuff at all.We grew most of the veg and raised chickens. I remember her getting some snoek in a tin which was some sort of south african fish and it was appalling in smell and tastebut if it was on your plate you ate it or went hungry.
No choice in what you liked or didn't like .The most horrible thing I have eaten apart from this snoek, was tripe, I cannot abide either the taste or smell.Think of eating a wet flannel facecloth with onions and you've got it about ringht.But I never went hungry which is what she was more interested in.

Some strange concoctions and it was best not to inquire too closly what it was you were actually eating at times:):):)I shall watch this programme with interest The 1950s seem like a lifetime ago to many people but for some of us, it, and the 1940s are in living memory :):)

I'm with you Jackie, same era I suspect, 1940s on, one trick was always check the key was with the tin.

Tinned stuff was the convenience food of the day, as you say, it was all fresh, like it, lump it or go hungry

Luckily my granddad had an allotment and a reasonable sized garden so not short of fresh veg, nothing poncey mind, cabbage, leeks [with grit] etc, and the odd pigeon from neighbours

Never had tripe, doubt I will go to my grave wishing I had tried it

Olde Oak Ham, it used to be good, in fact it was the highlight of our salad, 1950s when we went to Watford to visit the aunts, [oh and we had dandelion leaves in the salad with a cup of chicory coffee ] but I suspect as the money men moved in cost cutting did as well, like injecting water into chickens. I did write & complain about amount of jelly in a tin, never had a reply, not eaten any since

Butterfly_Brain

prosaver wrote: »

well at least it stopped asylum seekers and migrant workers coming here.. maybe we should show them this and say ..here, you try doing this, we did.
btw... is it a programme about not being able to cook?
and looking at ungrateful people and spoilt kids...?
remember the war just finished 6 years ago.
maybe the programme makers should of made them live through a war first!

I don't quite understand what you are trying to add to this conversation?

honeythewitch

jackel wrote: »

Can't see what all the fuss is about the can opener - I have one and never use any other sort (don't open many tins anyway but those ones with wings only last a short while.DH says there was a program on a while ago when they tested various openers and the old fashioned one in question came out top ! jac.xx

I have got my Grandmother's tin opener in the drawer, like the one on the show and it is used when we cant find the other one or its in the dishwasher.
It has probably outlived fifty butterfly can-openers so far.


I would have thought it was obvious how it was used even if you had never seen one. Especially as Swiss army knives have something similar attached. Surely the father must have seen one at least?

prosaver

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

I don't quite understand what you are trying to add to this conversation?

the programes point?
take the mick out of people in the 50s who have just had the hardship of winning the war..


like.. haha crap life


haha..crap food
hhaha union flag waving
haha I woulndt put up with it.haha .stupid 50's people

honeythewitch

prosaver wrote: »

well at least it stopped asylum seekers and migrant workers coming here.. maybe we should show them this and say ..here, you try doing this, we did.
btw... is it a programme about not being able to cook?
and looking at ungrateful people and spoilt kids...?
remember the war just finished 6 years ago.
maybe the programme makers should of made them live through a war first!

Sorry, I am completely lost. What do migrants and asylum seekers have to do with the show? Did I miss something?