typical weekly menus in 1960

oldMcDonald

....and veggies boiled until they were mush!

Burlesque_Babe

juliettet wrote: »

I used to work in Lawsons department store which had a really nice foodhall. That was my first taste of real cheesecake. That flipping store really spoilt me for nice expensive food. It was like Grace Brothers. The staff were not allowed to use the lift!!

mmmmmmmmmmmmm....................Lawsons........:D ........the smell of their coffee grinder always gave me a headache when I walked through even though it was an amazing smell. It was like a mini Fortnum and Mason in the deli section. When I was 11 at Guides we all did a project on a different country. I did something like Germany and my Mum bought lots of really exotic looking food I'd never really seen before for my 'display'...........salami..........(from Lawsons!!)

thriftmonster

Does anyone else remember going out and getting "Chicken in the Basket" which you were allowed to eat with your fingers!!!

My Mum also had a thing about not eating in the street - I still feel guilty if I do eat on the run.

jackieb

thriftmonster wrote: »

Does anyone else remember going out and getting "Chicken in the Basket" which you were allowed to eat with your fingers!!!

My Mum also had a thing about not eating in the street - I still feel guilty if I do eat on the run.

They were usually in plastic whicker baskets.

I don't eat in the street either. Maybe that's just because i'm fat and scared people will stare lol I hate to see women smoking in the street too. With men it doesn't bother me so much. I never knew I was sexist.

noonesperfect

Olliebeak wrote: »

Those Vesta Meals!

I can remember getting Chop Suey one - where you had to heat up the frying pan and throw in these 'plastic looking strips' that magically twisted and turned into crispy noodles.

And their Spaghetti Bolognese was the first time I ever ate the stuff. Still don't like it now and the smell of parmesan .................. still always smells like v***t to me!

You just reminded me that my friend says the smell of parmesan always reminds her of her daughter as she was a very sicky baby _pale_ (said baby is 50 this year!!!!)

Oh and other posters mentioning about not eating in the street. I don't do it, it does look terrible I must say. If my Gran had anything to do with it, you couldn't even have an ice-cream unless you sat down to eat it, and even then she disapproved!! You gotta laugh bless her soul, she was very Victorian in her ways.

Frozen orange juice - how innovative was that! Florida orange, mmm, loved it! Much better than that popwdered stuff in a packet that you mixed with water, it must have been full of additives, yuk!
Talking of drinks, I don't think anyone has mentioned Creamola (fizzy drink a bit like Andrews health salts in a tin) or Cresta - it's frothy man
What happened to Supermoose chocolate bars (much like Milky Way used to be) or Kay-li or mint cracknel.

Like someone else mentioned though, the lack of fibre in our diets in the 60's was shocking.

sandy2_2

Ah yes, Chicken in a basket and.... scampi in a basket with sachets of tartare sauce......those were the days

Burlesque_Babe

My nanna detests seeing people eat in the street!

Iused to go to my other nanna's each Saturday and stay over (I felt very grown up getting the bus and still being up to watch Hawaii five-O!) and she used to get me a Supermousse for my pudding for Saturday night - it felt very posh eating the swirly mousse and strawberry sauce in a little plastic tub after eating mince and mash with gravy and tomato sauce (EVERY Saturday!!)

My mum used to have a funny thing though, the minute crumpets went out of date she would throw them out as she said they would make us ill!! Not sure why she was so particular about crumpets.

moanymoany

I used to see the tins of Creamola Foam and LONGED to try it. I never did - sigh

One of my stepmothers (I had four) had the 'if it's Friday it's dried out gammon steaks' mentality to food. One thing she made was so revolting. (When I stayed with her it was the first time I had indigestion!)

Now, this revolting thing - she took a pack of mince and put it in a pan still in the 'block'. She then put in one whole onion per person, filled the pan with water and boiled it for ages. It was served in bowls - as it was. :eek:

moanymoany

juliettet wrote: »

Yes that was so true, cod was only good enough for the visitors to Cleethorpes. M & S do scallops but call them something posh, they do them here in Scotland but the Scots call them fritters. Fritters to us were 2 scallops with a sandwich filling of fish or sausagemeat then battered & fried.

I so love remembering all this although I am very happy in Glasgow.

Do you know how they kept them 'sandwiched' together. I've tried and they fell apart. We called battered potatoes 'scallops'. I make them sometimes. It is easy, simply flour mixed with cold water to a thick paste. I got the recipe from the BERO book - they call them fritters.

juliettet

moanymoany wrote: »

Do you know how they kept them 'sandwiched' together. I've tried and they fell apart. We called battered potatoes 'scallops'. I make them sometimes. It is easy, simply flour mixed with cold water to a thick paste. I got the recipe from the BERO book - they call them fritters.

I remember them being huge slices of potato cut lengthways and the fish or sausagemeat patty sandwiched between the potato slices then dipped in the same batter used for frying everything else. I think the fat must have been so hot it was sealed immediately.

I forgot that the chippy in our road used to have a huge ginger cat sitting on the counter, I loved going there and no one batted an eyelid. Armstrong St Keren 29!