typical weekly menus in 1960

floss2

boo81 wrote: »

a jelly and evaoprated milk dessert

we used to have that too!

and Rice Creamola (sort of ground rice pudding - much nicer than rice pud)
and raspberry or chocolate custard made with packets of Birds blancmange mix (usually served with vanilla ice-cream)
and bananas & Birds yellow custard
and red jelly & Birds yellow custard

rlm_3

vanoonoo wrote: »

Great thread

we always called yorkshire puddings "popovers" for some reason.

I think this is what they call them in the States - At least that's what Ina Garten, the Barefoot Contesssa, calls them on her programme on UK Food.

setmefree2

Hi

Yup in our house we knew what day of the week it was by what we ate.:D I still remember what the good days were too! Thursday - Scooby Doo was on - followed by "cowboy stew" mince stew with heinz type beans thrown in:rotfl:Lovely:D

We always had a fried breakfast on Sunday morning, and a Sunday roast and a salad for Sunday tea with a Cottage Loaf and lashings of butter...

We ate more then as we burned more calories - these days I eat like a flea and still put on weight.

Does anyone remember "Chefs Square Shaped Soups Show how a good Soup Should be" - Packet Soup :rotfl:

Burlesque_Babe

juliettet wrote: »

Mum is on Clark Ave now, just off Cromwell Rd. All this has really cheered me up this afternoon and got lots of work done too. I love OS

My mum and dad live on the other side of the Market Hotel roundabout - on the block next to the Jet garage opposite the place that used to be a car showroom, I think it is a shoe place now?? Small world huh?!

ceridwen

I remember Nesquik (a powder mixed into milk to make a "milk shake") - yuk! and golden syrup (double yuk!).

There was a readymade cakey thing of a biscuit base/marshmallow and chocolate on top - yuk. Jam tarts -yuk! Jelly from a packet - yuk! Blancmange - yuk!

In fact the only things I recall liking were bacon sandwiches (not possible now I'm vegetarian!), clotted cream (only ever had it, as I recall, at an aunts place) and I am still very partial to that and marmite (first tried at a friends house) - which I still use occasionally.

Lizzieanne

Fizzy drinks were for special occasions only!
Each Christmas, Mum and Dad would order the 'Farmer's Wife Mixed' crate from the milkman - 12 one litre glass bottles of fizzy drinks in mixed flavours. I thought I'd died and gone to heaven!

And when we were the second people in our street to buy a Soda Stream...:D All my friends would cue up outside the kitchen window and Mum would pass them all little bottles of freshly made cola!

bountiful

keren29 wrote: »

he used to sell loads of Gold Top (Channel islands milk) in the 70s with the cream at the top but I don't think he sells any now, he said nobody wants it anymore.

Remember the little bottles of milk at school with a straw to push through the foil?? Warm in the summer........bleurgh........although I was a goody goody and I was milk monitor!

Gosh yes, we used to have ONE pint of Gold Top and all the rest were silver - my Dad used to go mad if anyone shook the bottle - it was for HIM - the cream off the top! And school milk monitor - do you remember having to line all the frozen milk bottles up along the radiator in the winter?:D That awful sicky smell of milk bottles at school.....

bountiful

Pink parafin heaters - yes
Pink blancmange in rabbit-shaped moulds - yes
Dad getting special food - yes
Ice cream vans came round every weekend - that's where we got ice creams
The Corona lorry? fizzy drinks - cream soda
Anyone remember when crisps came in cardboard boxes - like cereal boxes?
Sugar sandwiches?

Tibbie's_mum

Lizzieanne wrote: »

Fizzy drinks were for special occasions only!
Each Christmas, Mum and Dad would order the 'Farmer's Wife Mixed' crate from the milkman - 12 one litre glass bottles of fizzy drinks in mixed flavours. I thought I'd died and gone to heaven!

And when we were the second people in our street to buy a Soda Stream...:D All my friends would cue up outside the kitchen window and Mum would pass them all little bottles of freshly made cola!

Oh how I remember those glass bottles of pop from the milkman, heavenly!! But we never had a Soda Stream, although I desperately wanted one, you must have been a very posh family.

withabix

lilmisskitkat wrote: »

I remember me and sis had Findus crispy pancakes for tea on a Saturday - love them!

They're getting a bit short on filling these days :rolleyes:. Got some from Mr T the other day on a Bog Off.