Eating in the UK in the fifties

[Barr1e]

So I am told!

[Pol]

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By 'eck, that revived a few memories and horrors!

I can remember my mother pushing my pushchair and taking me to the 'Food Office' for that baby orange juice. She couldn't persuade us to drink milk or eat eggs so she made us what she called 'Easter Pop' and told us it was for grown up girls who were too big for baby orange juice pop.

He easter pop was just millk and raw egg beaten together with sugar added. Yuck! It's a wonder we survived!

She used to drink Camp coffee. Yuck to that too!

Pol

[Pops]

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Some very amusing trivia and lots that bought back memories, mostly nice ones.

[TheBull1875]

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Brilliant As a chef by trade I can certainly have a good laugh at them. Pol, my Mum, God bless her, only ever had Camp Coffee (with Chicory) in the house. She made the best ever coffee cake in the world though. I have tried to use it in baking ever since but becomes more difficult to get. In fact I haven't actually baked for years so maybe you don't even get it any more?

[Pol]

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Brilliant As a chef by trade I can certainly have a good laugh at them. Pol, my Mum, God bless her, only ever had Camp Coffee (with Chicory) in the house. She made the best ever coffee cake in the world though. I have tried to use it in baking ever since but becomes more difficult to get. In fact I haven't actually baked for years so maybe you don't even get it any more?

My mother used Camp for coffee cake too. I never liked coffee though so I didn't care for the cake either. She also made chocolate cakes so I used to have my sister's share of the chocolate cake and she had me coffee cake.

My mother also made horrible milky drinks with that wretched Camp and chicory stuff. Yuck!

Pol

[escallonia]

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It all came back to me Barrie. I remember one of my Jobs was to take the wireless accumulator to be charged, that was going to school and pick it up the next day. Also taking a old worn out pram and fill it with logs from the local sawmill, that was Stedham nr Midhurst west sussex. Saturday morning job the logs were 3p 1943. John.

[TheBull1875]

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My mother used Camp for coffee cake too. I never liked coffee though so I didn't care for the cake either. She also made chocolate cakes so I used to have my sister's share of the chocolate cake and she had me coffee cake.

My mother also made horrible milky drinks with that wretched Camp and chicory stuff. Yuck!

Pol

Love coffee cake And chocolate cake!! As for coffee, one cup a day the doctor allows me. Luckily he doesn't see the size of espresso maker I have!

[Kurt]

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Very small potatoes were only good for feeding the pig.

Hard cheese varieties were red or yellow.

[Tom Holle]

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There are many foods I remember from when I was young but the one uppermost in my mind is the white bread which had holes in it and the jam would run out of them if you weren't careful.

[Ian]

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I can remember mayonnaise when I was young (late 60s/early 70s) and it was much more like salad cream today - quite tart, which I liked. Much mayonnaise today is very bland.

And of course chicken was a bit of a luxury for sunday roasts, but now it's perhaps the cheapest meat, besides pork maybe?

Who remembers the bread man knocking on the door with his big basket under his arm?

I saw a milk float for the first time in months yesterday morning. Have to admit we gave up on delivered milk 3-4 years ago.

Ian

[Pol]

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I can remember mayonnaise when I was young (late 60s/early 70s) and it was much more like salad cream today - quite tart, which I liked. Much mayonnaise today is very bland.

And of course chicken was a bit of a luxury for sunday roasts, but now it's perhaps the cheapest meat, besides pork maybe?

Who remembers the bread man knocking on the door with his big basket under his arm?

I saw a milk float for the first time in months yesterday morning. Have to admit we gave up on delivered milk 3-4 years ago.

Ian

I remember the bread man with a big basket.

I can also remember the milkman coming with his horse and cart, the cart full of milk churns. He used to fill your jugs, can or whatever then clip-clop off again. Our milk was probably about the freshest because we lived opposite the farm.

I can also remember my mother having 'the rations' delivered from the local grocer. They arrived in a cardboard box, sugar in a blue bag and a chuck of butter in greaseproof paper.

We had a telephone that had a wind-up handle. You turned the handle to call the operator who would them put you through to the person you wanted to talk to.

In 1950 My father bought a huge Bentley that had been in storage during the war. He took us up to Scotland in it and the exhaust fell off and the 'big end' also conked out. Apparently it hadn't been stored well and there was 'hidden rust' all over the place.

Then my parents bought a caravan about the same time. He had another car by then (some Ford or other iirc). I clearly remember its registration was DPF 875. We went back to Scotland towing the caravan but it jack -knifed and the car ended up in a ditch. The RAC took us to a garage for repairs to the car. My sister and I were thrilled because the owner let us stay for a couple of nights in his garage in our caravan. We thought that was so much more exciting than a hotel and we were cheesed off when the car was repaired and we had to go home.

My mother was furious with my father. She often was - just as I'm often furious with David.

Pol

[TheBull1875]

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;-) My kids don't believe me when I tell them we got chicken for Xmas dinner and that was it (a nice big capon usually). I guess battery farming has something going for it. Never had a telephone until I was about 18 (1976). First TV was from Radio Rentals and you put a 2 bob bit in the back. Good old days eh?

[Kurt]

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;-) My kids don't believe me when I tell them we got chicken for Xmas dinner and that was it (a nice big capon usually). I guess battery farming has something going for it. Never had a telephone until I was about 18 (1976). First TV was from Radio Rentals and you put a 2 bob bit in the back. Good old days eh?

Yes, we killed a chicken for Christmas. No phone, either. My favourite meal was Sunday breakfast. We had bacon, egg and fried bread, but the special bit was the mushrooms that Dad had collected on an early morning walk. Usually my breakfast was a Welgar Shredded Wheat with a blob of condensed milk.

[Barr1e]

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My favourite even today - bubble and squeak.

Regards. Barr1e

[Pol]

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My favourite even today - bubble and squeak.

Regards. Barr1e

Yer not gonna believe this but we had some of that today!

Pol