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bellaquidsin

Culpepper, my Dad was a grocer and he used to say that it was uneconomical to bake bread at home as the National loaf was subsidised. My mum used to make teacakes though as a special treat in lieu of hot cross buns at Easter and they were to die for.


I enjoyed the programme, it brought back a lot of memories. I was born in 1943 but I don't ever remember having liver looking so unappetising but then my mum was a very good cook.


Bella.

Ches

What amazed me about the fiasco of the sardine tin was that they tried every way to hold the tin opener except the right way. Was that staged?

jk0

bellaquidsin wrote: »

Culpepper, my Dad was a grocer and he used to say that it was uneconomical to bake bread at home as the National loaf was subsidised. My mum used to make teacakes though as a special treat in lieu of hot cross buns at Easter and they were to die for.

Bella.

Was white breadmaking flour available under rationing, or did they just sell the stuff that made the National loaf?

Anyone know?

I can imagine I might make the effort to bake my own if the bread in the shops was nasty.

Edit: Did anyone hear the story that Churchill decreed that bread sold had to be at least one day old, so that it wasn't so nice, so that less was consumed?

I guess it might be worth even using National loaf flour to bake your own in that case.

lillibet_dripping

sairy2010 wrote: »

I don't remember the war as I wasn't born until 1946 when my Dad came home. He had been a soldier for 6 years but like so many never talked about it.
I remember rationing as it went on until 1954. In fact my mother always called the food shopping "the rations"
We lived with my Nan and Grandad until we got a council house after 7 years.
My Nan ran a shop from the front room. I loved helping with that.
We had no electricity (only gas downstairs) and no running water, only a tap in the garden for three cottages.
We didn't have much sugar as my granddad had to have it all as he had cancer and they thought he needed the energy.
My Dad used to heat up the flat iron on the range and run upstairs with it to iron my bed sheets and then I would hop into a warm bed.
I don't ever remember being hungry though.
I certainly don't think they were the good old days. I would rather have my life now but glad to have experienced it.

My mum always referred to the weekly Friday shop as 'getting the order'. I'm supposing that in her younger days her mum 'ordered' her shopping then went to collect it from the shop?

Out,_Vile_Jelly

I do enjoy reading these memories of resourcefulness during harder times. You guys would be very useful to have around in the case of a zombie apocalypse.

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Ches wrote: »

What amazed me about the fiasco of the sardine tin was that they tried every way to hold the tin opener except the right way. Was that staged?

That amused me too. It probably wasn't staged, I met a bloke at Bradwell Youth Hostel a few years ago having exactly the same problem, and he was older than I am.

I once watched an African guy open a tin with an 8" kitchen knife, and he was so fast and slick he could have beaten someone using a tin opener!

prosaver

honeythewitch wrote: »

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

that was funny ..the look on his face said it all.
I can see it happeningin them days as some fathers use to think that they were royalty and you couldnt answer them back or nothing, and women wasnt allowed to have opinion ..like in the harry enfield sketch... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS37SNYjg8w
I can see it now
wheres dad ?
old misery's next door having his tea ...lol

maman

lillibet_dripping wrote: »

My mum always referred to the weekly Friday shop as 'getting the order'. I'm supposing that in her younger days her mum 'ordered' her shopping then went to collect it from the shop?

I think it was very common for anyone who had the money up front to have a weekly order and often delivered. They might place the order over the phone or write it down and drop it in to the grocer. So all the basics and heavy stuff were delivered and they could just saunter off with the shopping basket on a daily basis for some fresh stuff/odds and ends.


The daily shop for many was a chance to dress up fairly smartly and socialise rather than just functional as it is today.

CupOfChai

Thanks OP, I fancied watching this and hadn't realised it had been on.


I'm not QUITE 30 yet but I reckon I could have worked out the tin opener, admittedly I've not seen the thing yet but I have been known to improvise and open tins with a veg knife so how much different could it be?

busiscoming2

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...

I've had nine stitches in a finger from the ruddy corned beef tin!

TravellingAbuela wrote: »

Despite us having an electric can opener MrTA will only use one of the old stab ones. He insists they are more reliable!

Me too! I couldn't believe they had never seen one like it!