Back in Time for Christmas

7roland8

Yes they did say a turkey cost a week's wages.


In the 60s they did those crepe decorations wrong they are supposed to be twisted so they are all twirly - not just hung up straight - we had those in 60s and 70s.

PasturesNew

honeythewitch wrote: »

Did I mishear, or did they say a turkey cost a weeks wages? I cant imagine anyone paying that much.

40s/50s yes. Turkey used to be expensive. Typically, for the previous 100 years, even the workhouse people got fed beef as that was the cheaper meat. Turkeys started being bred intensively at the end of the 50s/beginning of the 60s, when prices came down.

PasturesNew

7roland8 wrote: »

In the 60s they did those crepe decorations wrong they are supposed to be twisted so they are all twirly - not just hung up straight - we had those in 60s and 70s.

Yes, you twist them round. But, at least, they were using the light fitting in the centre to hang them corner to corner. I was surprised they didn't also have the cheap/paper chinese lanterns.

PasturesNew

Living_proof wrote: »

I was born in the 50s and I remember we had a whole free range turkey which was dissected with one half frozen for Easter.

We didn't even have a freezer until the mid 1970s.

We used to have a turkey at Xmas in the mid-late 60s. Fresh ones. My mum's family had a lot to do with traders/the cattle market, so knew who to get stuff from and were at the cattle market a lot (often looking for opportunities to be up to no good/doing a dodgy deal though, rather than being respected traders).

I remember in the 70s going to nan's and we had turkey and duck and pork and venison and a pheasant. Definitely something dodgy going on there....

Rainy-Days

They did say a turkey was a weeks wages yes :eek:

I have given some thought with Rochelle and I think a massive amount is down to how the series including previously and this one has ben edited! I knew someone similar to Rochelle a few years back and they used to pause and then give a considered answer, but they would tilt their head on one side whilst thinking it through. I think she is similar, but because of the time constraints with the programme they are having to heavily edited it down so what we are seeing is not actually the true Rochelle and I think thats a shame really.

Brandon seems to come across really well because he is a kind of 'shoot from hip' where he says things on the spur of the moment. With Rochelle she very much seems to come across - in my view - as wanting to give an indepth answer. I think having a camera shoved in your face and being put on the spot is not easy either!

Really, really looking forward though to tonights 70's 80's and the 90's!

meritaten

I think Rochelle has a very dry sense of humour, similar to my oldest son. I also think she is very analytical of the experience - and really tries to 'live' it as a woman of that time would.
Brandon is MR Optimistic! he would drive me nuts - but, I am sure I have heard Rochelle gently taking the mickey out of him!

Looking forward to tonights episode now!
(I daren't even pop onto pinnyterest or yootoob now in case I get absorbed in something and forget its on!)

fuddle

Brandon's response to the toy gun was heart warming for me. That was a fella living his dream alright.

meritaten

forgot about nigella - I have already pinched her recipe for spiced peaches to go in the 'Girls' hampers - I think I will pop onto iplayer now and see if there is anything else which I can appropriate.

PasturesNew

Here we go - it's on.... running late though.

VfM4meplse

I caught up with last night's episode - there seems to have been a lot of good TV on last night! - and loved the history lesson within. I think I would have quite enjoyed the austerity of the 1940s (lack of food and consumerism rather than the ox heart), it was about family and simple pleasures.