typical weekly menus in 1960

oldMcDonald

jackieb wrote: »

I'm pretty sure that's how my mum made it too. My mum only made pink, but my aunt used to make pale green fluff, with co-ordinating green jelly. She also used to ice biscuits with blue icing! I'd never eat them because I used to think she'd made it was Daz (cos that was blue at the time), and I always imagined it would taste soapy.

I reckon that your aunt was a Fanny Craddock fan! Her concoctions were all rather bright and ...erm...unusual!

oldMcDonald

I loved jelly fluff when I was a kid, I had forgotten all about it but will have to make some to try out on my own kids now:)

juliettet

mama67 wrote: »

Juliettet, where was lawsons?

Where Marks & Spencers are now. When I was younger Marks was in Freeman St opposite the outdoor market. It was an independent Store which had branches in Louth and other Lincolnshire towns. It was really one of a kind and I think was a great loss at the time.

VickyM_2

What really stands out to me now (born in 1965, aargh) is the high sugar/low fibre nature of our diet.

We had sugar coated frosties or ricycles for breakfast with milk to drink (orange juice? never!), packed lunch at school with white bread sandwiches and a penguin biscuit, cake/biscuits at tea time and always, always had a pudding for supper - apple crumble, apple meringue etc. Brown or wholemeal bread was really rare, and when my sister insisted on eating muesli as a bolshy teenager, she was regarded as very odd!

Pasta or rice didn't really count as a meal (not enough meat involved) so we only had it for Saturday supper. Sunday evenings we'd have a version of high tea - hard-boiled eggs and slices of buttered bread (white of course) which you had to have two of before you could eat the cake.

I also remember grey mince - was there a ban in the 70s on using tins of tomatoes or something?!

jackieb

My grandma always had pan loaf, with the great chewy crusts. Whenever we stayed with her we got toast and cocoa before bed, and had to eat these black crusts. She said it would give us curls. You can still buy the pan loafs - have you ever seen such a dense bread? Makes lovely toast though (apart from the crusts!)

bountiful

This thread is just fab :j- all the memories - yes, milk-jelly-fluff-mouse thing I'd forgotten that! I remember my Mum getting a Hillman Imp - it was white, and quite revolutionary at the time - because the windows were really low and us kids could all actually see out of the windows!
and someone said they had THREE digestive biscuits - when there were biscuits (I can only remember then from my teen years) there was a Dad-imposed rule in our house that TWO was the absolute limit at any one time. I remember meeting my brother going up the stairs with the last two biscuits in his hand - I protested that it wasn't fair and he put both in his mouth and bit through them so he didn't have to share....:rotfl:

bountiful

Anyone remember a kind of condensed (was is also frozen) cardboard cylinder of orange juice? I can't remember what it was called, but it used to be poured into a jug and then a load of water mixed with the slush to make a 'real' orange juice drink?

jackieb

bountiful wrote: »

This thread is just fab :j- all the memories - yes, milk-jelly-fluff-mouse thing I'd forgotten that! I remember my Mum getting a Hillman Imp - it was white, and quite revolutionary at the time - because the windows were really low and us kids could all actually see out of the windows!
and someone said they had THREE digestive biscuits - when there were biscuits (I can only remember then from my teen years) there was a Dad-imposed rule in our house that TWO was the absolute limit at any one time. I remember meeting my brother going up the stairs with the last two biscuits in his hand - I protested that it wasn't fair and he put both in his mouth and bit through them so he didn't have to share....:rotfl:

My brother would take as much Rich Tea's that he could fit in his hands - and his hands were big! He could probably make off with 3/4 of a packet at once. Everyone was aware of George and his Rich Tea's. He was known for his love of them, Whenever I got a biscuit I had to sit and eat it with a metal wastepaper bin between my knees.

Ooh, and 2 words - Creamola Foam

Tibbie's_mum

bountiful wrote: »

Anyone remember a kind of condensed (was is also frozen) cardboard cylinder of orange juice? I can't remember what it was called, but it used to be poured into a jug and then a load of water mixed with the slush to make a 'real' orange juice drink?

My dad use to buy this in Bejams, yet another thing I'd forgotten about. As I recall it was very sharp and acidic.

AussieLass

in general:
anything crumbed and fried
anything battered and fried
anything souffled
anything in jelly of any sort
anything creamed
anything wrapped in a crepe
anything that looks almost inedible :rotfl: