Food in the fifties

Would it be anything to do with the type of work they we did, digging drains with a pick and shovel , loading bales with a pitchfork , unloading lorries , forking silage out of pits , cutting hedges with a hand hook , no quads , it just goes on , at 14 I had muscles like on steroids
All before breakfast, time when men were men and women were glad on em.;)
 

HolzKopf

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Location
Kent&Snuffit
School dinner mince had bits of veins visible in it and other rubbery stuff that seemed to make one's jaw bounce apart when chewing it.

School dinner liver, now there's a biology lesson. Even then, not many chose it. Me, anything like that was no problem and good nourishment even if one day as it was ladled out, I swear the veins around the liver were hiding the gall bladder...

How things have changed
 

jendan

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Northumberland
Everyone was universal in those days , like the oil was , oils a nightmare now, when mum got married dad bought her a milking stool
Did he really buy her a milking stool? :) She must have been keen. I dont think my dad managed that,but probably bought plenty tea towels with a picture of Llandudno and Caenarfon Castle on them(from the trip out with the Male Voice Choir)
 

Easedoff

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Livestock Farmer
Did he really buy her a milking stool? :) She must have been keen. I dont think my dad managed that,but probably bought plenty tea towels with a picture of Llandudno and Caenarfon Castle on them(from the trip out with the Male Voice Choir)
The milking stool probably came with her as endowment.
 

BrianV

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Dartmoor
How did you lift your slag and firtilzer then , how did you move your milk churns and move your hay bales, your corn sacks, needed plenty of fuel though , big dinners followed by a large portion of spotty dick
Have to say really not missing 10 ton load of of fertiliser turning up in 1 cwt bags with no forklifts in those days! Or West of England corn sacks weighing 11/2 cwt or 75 kgs, boy were they heavy picking them up off the floor after the combine had dropped them off.
 

Easedoff

Member
Livestock Farmer
School dinner liver, now there's a biology lesson. Even then, not many chose it. Me, anything like that was no problem and good nourishment even if one day as it was ladled out, I swear the veins around the liver were hiding the gall bladder...

How things have changed
You had choice?
At my primary....as at home...it was what was dished up or go without.
 

deere 6600

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Mixed Farmer
Have to say really not missing 10 ton load of of fertiliser turning up in 1 cwt bags with no forklifts in those days! Or West of England corn sacks weighing 11/2 cwt or 75 kgs, boy were they heavy picking them up off the floor after the combine had dropped them off.
Remember unloading 12 ton of fert 1cwt bags
 

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