New BBC2 Back in time for dinner

prosaver

honeythewitch wrote: »

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

you know what i mean ..dont be silly now

honeythewitch

prosaver wrote: »

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

I thought it more "look at the daft modern family who havent a clue what to do with stuff that was simple in the fifties" ?

honeythewitch

prosaver wrote: »

you know what i mean ..dont be silly now

No actually. I didn't. That's why I asked.

bargainhunterss

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

On now.
A family is sent back in time to cook and eat the same as people did in the 50's up to the present day.

The wife does not normally cook, and the result is eyeopening as to how people are so cosseted these days.

I especially loved the part when it took three of them to try to open a tin of pilchards with an old fashioned tin opener that my Mum had when we were small. I nearly wet myself laughing:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

It will be on i player later if you want t catch it

Thanks Butterfly Brain I'll catch this on iplayer later!:T

Butterfly_Brain

I remember lots of things that my Mum did to eke out the food, we had things like hash, meat pies, such as mince with carrots and peas, corned beef and potato, cheese and onion, steak and kidney.
Egg and chips, fishfingers or fishcakes on a Friday, lots of different casseroles, macaroni cheese but using spaghetti instead of macaroni, toad in the hole, liver and onions, sausage and mash etc with lots and lots of potatoes and veg to stretch a meal out, we didn't have rice often and that was a proper rice pud done in the oven.
Everything was cooked in lard in those days as well

Sometimes she did macaroni made into a milk pudding with a tbsp of cocoa.

She had a mincer and every Christmas whatever was left of the turkey was minced and then on Boxing day Dad would make his "Turkey savoury" which was the minced turkey mixed into mashed potatoes with mixed herbs and salt and pepper with two beaten eggs added and then it was bunged in the oven and cut into slices to be eaten with salad. Occassionally she would make sponge puddings with custard instead of cake, but that was usually in the winter.

We always had a proper Sunday tea which was salad, boiled potatoes, salad cream, cheese and ham and sliced boiled egg or a quiche with a slice of cake and a cup of tea.

The only thing that we didn't have was lots of crisps, fizzy drinks or sweets, they were only bought once a fortnight and that was it, you either ate them all at once or a few at a time. Drinks were the occassional lemon or orange squash, tea or water and that was it.

If we were peckish we had carrots, sometimes apples or crackers and jam or toast when we got in from school, then we sat at the table to do our homework. We ate what was put in front of us, there was no picky eating allowed, then once you had your dinner it was outside for a couple of hours playing, then in for a bath and bed by 8pm latest.

I remember Beef, pork and lamb being cheaper than chicken so chicken was always a rare treat.

We had beef dripping that my Mum made from the joint and we always had a sprinkle of salt on it. We never had pork dripping :eek:

Yet we were all slimmer back then.

prosaver

same here ..we only had crisp and fizzy drinks once a week as atreat and that was in the 70s.oh,but we did have 3p a day for sweets

honeythewitch

I wasn't born until 1960, but the meals were pretty much the same as the fifties as far as I can tell. Mostly meat, potatoes and lots of vegetables.
We didn't have pre-made food like burgers or fish fingers, but on the other hand a lorry came round every week and delivered lurid sugary pop in every flavour,:eek: and we were allowed to buy as many sweets as we liked with our own money.
Things like sugary cereal and Angel delight were classed as sweets and came out of pocket money too.

flowrypot

They missed out all the neighbourliness, my grandma wasnt lonely and isolated she went next door for a cup of tea and vice versa ,she also met many people when she went shopping, she also had time to knit and sew, and my grandad never ate on his own.

honeythewitch

flowrypot wrote: »

They missed out all the neighbourliness, my grandma wasnt lonely and isolated she went next door for a cup of tea and vice versa ,she also met many people when she went shopping, she also had time to knit and sew, and my grandad never ate on his own.

I was baffled by them making the father eat on his own. I have never heard of it.

MandM90

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'm sure many asylum seekers have put up with things we can't even imagine...

We're watching it now and enjoying it immensely! Making us excited about our new allotment :rotfl:

I now understand why my grandmother thinks spaghetti bolognese is exotic My grandfather was a builder and they had 6 kids. Can't have been easy!