typical weekly menus in 1960

juliettet

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?

My sister's favourite was HP sauce & peanut butter sandwiches. yuk!

Keren29 maybe can remember a treat at the chippy was a bag of chips with scraps, the scraps being the scrapings of batter & debris off the beef dripping what the fryer scraped off.

Last night I thought of this thread and cooked for tea a roasted vegetable pasta dish and would have swapped it for a peanut butter sandwich and Angel Delight as I couldn't stop thinking that now I eat most things that were not available when I was a child. Nostalgia???

jackieb

I just remembered fluff! We used to get fluff and jelly. I think fluff was jelly, made with evaporated milk which got whipped, and then it kind of set. And it was bubbly. There used to be fluff and jelly at every birthday party.

I suppose it's a mousse really lol

furball

OH the memories, I was a child of the 60's. I remember a roast on sundays and fish and chips on fridays. Finny haddock yum. Mum's meat and tattie pie yum yum, stews, collops/scollops never any rice pasta or foreign food. Dad was the original, What Garlic Bread, man. Only take away was fish n chips. Loved mums home made chips they were the best ever. Does anyone else remember fat cake. The leftovet trimmings from the pastry rolled out and put on a tim plate, cooked in the iven and eaten warm with butter on. ooooh yum. Always had a hot meal to come home to, rice puddings, apple pies, or fruit cocktail and carnation milk, we fought over the cherries lol. Also remember belly pork cooked in oven till crispy, tomatoe sausage was also a favorite of mine. bacon chips beans fried mushrooms. This has special memories as dad always ate later than us as he worked nights, he would share his mushrooms with me, they were my favorite and i was the youngest. Best of all was cornish pasty, chips peas and gravy and on the rare occasions mum and dad went out they would bring fish and chips home and we could stay up late and share them. Nan used to babysit, remember watching armchair thriller and appointment with fear scared stiff. I can also remember when potaoe waffles appeared we thought these were the bees knees but dad always had potatoes instead, lol. Had a wonderful childhood and can never remember not having to eat anything i didn't like. Mum still got up and make us breakfast when we were working. Porridge on cold days with a cup of sweet tea with a tot of whisky in to keep the cold out. We walked to work, good job lol.

mary43

Mum passed her driving test in the late 50's early 60's and her first car was an Austin something or other. When we cleared through stuff after Dad died we found the old radio that used to slot in it, before the days of car stereos. Little thing it is and there was a compartment at the front where it used to sit. Awful reception if I remember right and the poor thing now doesn't work at all. Sits up a corner...............think I ought to find someway of displaying it.

Burlesque_Babe

juliettet wrote: »

Keren29 maybe can remember a treat at the chippy was a bag of chips with scraps, the scraps being the scrapings of batter & debris off the beef dripping what the fryer scraped off.

oooooh, scraps, lovely....with a tub of gravy...from the Golden Fry of course juliettet nobody down south seems to know what scraps are

Superheavy

keren29 wrote: »

oooooh, scraps, lovely....with a tub of gravy...from the Golden Fry of course juliettet nobody down south seems to know what scraps are

I remember when I was a kid in Aberystwyth in my teens, and I used to go cheap Mon-Thurs on school dinner, so I'd have a bit left over on Friday to go to Ernie's and get a battered sausage, chips and lots of batterbits. Never called em scraps, but they were really nice as I recall!

Rowan9

Our chip shops still sell scraps.

Fluff - quick recipe - my aunt made this when I was a kid and I used to make it for my 2
make up a jelly with half the quantity of water, when nearly set whip in a previously whipped up can of carnation milk. Voila! I love strawberry

w

Tibbie's_mum

wmf wrote: »

Our chip shops still sell scraps.

Fluff - quick recipe - my aunt made this when I was a kid and I used to make it for my 2
make up a jelly with half the quantity of water, when nearly set whip in a previously whipped up can of carnation milk. Voila! I love strawberry

w

Is that a 397g can of carnation?? Just found one in the cupboard, think I'll give it a go for my little 'uns.

Many thanks for the recipe.

Burlesque_Babe

I saw an old Angel Delight advert on You Tube yesterday (as you do!) and they made it into lollies! I was very impressed and might have to have a walk down memory lane and buy some in the summer and make banana lollies (if you can still buy it!)

mama67

keren29 wrote: »

I grew up in Grimsby Juliettet (lived there 1970-88 and also worked on top town market 84-88)- which is why we had free 'yellow fish' as my Dad's uncle worked on the docks.

All this talk of old fashioned meals - I'm doing corned beef hash pie tonight and I'm really looking forward to it.

My OH grew up in Grimsby as well, he was born 1964, lived in Scartho.

His dad was also a fisherman and then he also became one until it all dried up, with the Cod War.

I was born in 1967 grew up in Spalding.