Back in Time for Christmas

meritaten

Why would Rochelle be assumed to be familiar with frozen Turkeys? tbh I bet they eat out at Christmas dinner as Rochelle is NOT comfortable in the kitchen anyway!
in over 38 years of marriage I have never had a frozen Turkey. on the very few occasions we had Turkey I bought fresh ones. we actually prefer to have Leg of Pork and a nice big Joint of Beef.
and I cant figure out why the poor woman had to cope with that 'stab' tin opener in the sixties! we had the 'wing' type tin opener then! in fact I am almost sure they were available in the fifties. The stab ones are not easy to use even when you know the 'technique'. and the lids then become lethal weapons!

meritaten

just a thought - where did they find a tin of Spam WITHOUT the key opening? I honestly don't remember it NOT having one. the shape of the tin makes it impossible to open with a tin opener from those times.
if the spam was really from the fifties/sixties, then its a bit beyond its 'best before'!

PasturesNew

honeythewitch wrote: »

No wonder people worry so much about getting it just right. It must be a hangover from the days it cost a fortune.
Imagine ruining something that cost a weeks wages? :eek:

Although they cost a week's wages - people didn't buy them. They cost a normal person's week's wages, so only the rich bought them.

Everybody else, the normal people, cooked something else.

Rainy-Days

meritaten wrote: »

just a thought - where did they find a tin of Spam WITHOUT the key opening? I honestly don't remember it NOT having one. the shape of the tin makes it impossible to open with a tin opener from those times.
if the spam was really from the fifties/sixties, then its a bit beyond its 'best before'!

Do you know I thought the EXACT same thing. The corned beef tins were the flipping worst. My Mum was a nurse and she told me that allot of injuries especially stiches had to be performed at A&E specifically because of these tins! I am ultra careful with them even now, but years back Mum would make sure that we came no where near and then she would wrap up the used serated tin in old newspaper!

honeythewitch

Rainy-Days wrote: »

Do you know I thought the EXACT same thing. The corned beef tins were the flipping worst. My Mum was a nurse and she told me that allot of injuries especially stiches had to be performed at A&E specifically because of these tins! I am ultra careful with them even now, but years back Mum would make sure that we came no where near and then she would wrap up the used serated tin in old newspaper!

I have had so many mishaps that now I open both ends and push it through.

meritaten wrote: »

Why would Rochelle be assumed to be familiar with frozen Turkeys? tbh I bet they eat out at Christmas dinner as Rochelle is NOT comfortable in the kitchen anyway!
in over 38 years of marriage I have never had a frozen Turkey. on the very few occasions we had Turkey I bought fresh ones. we actually prefer to have Leg of Pork and a nice big Joint of Beef.
and I cant figure out why the poor woman had to cope with that 'stab' tin opener in the sixties! we had the 'wing' type tin opener then! in fact I am almost sure they were available in the fifties. The stab ones are not easy to use even when you know the 'technique'. and the lids then become lethal weapons!

I thought it gave the impression that frozen turkey was something that happened long ago when in fact they account for a third of the sales.

Shereen

lessonlearned wrote: »

It was bittersweet but I'm glad I managed to pull it altogether and celebrate Christmas. It was a cathartic and healing experience, not just for me but for the whole family.

We did much the same thing three years ago after an unexpected death in the family at Christmas time. We were very glad we made ourselves do it - anniversaries are hard enough at any time of the year, but when they fall at a time of such joint community celebration, it somehow feels harder.

It did make our traditional toast of "absent friends and family" more poignant and teary though.

andymandy

I sliced the top of my finger just above the knuckle last year trying to get a corned beef tin open. Had to have it glued and in a splint to stop the finger bending. Now I buy it in packs not tins.

Icey77

I adore Rochelle although she does have me rolling my eyes at times when she doesn't know how to do something. Her deadpan delivery had me in stitches when she opened her fur coat present and said "oh, it's the dog" :rotfl:

On that subject, I had no idea fur was so fashionable as late as the eighties, I thought the tide had turned on real fur much earlier than the nineties.

VfM4meplse

Icey77 wrote: »

I adore Rochelle although she does have me rolling my eyes at times when she doesn't know how to do something.

I think the daughters are stunning, and clearly take after their mum.

Their son is v cute too, as for the dad, if there was an OBE in eternal optimism he'd have been decorated with it by now.

THIRZAH

I had a fur coat in the eighties-it was only coney but really warm. I can remember wearing it for my cousin's wedding and my sister turned up in her MIL's mink!

My MIL probably still has a couple of furs tucked away somewhere.