Food in the fifties

[Hilly]

And yet most people were dead by 70/75 were now they live well into their 90's, and I'm betting the higher standard of food plays a big part in that

Sitting in puddles of their own pee in care homes a lot of them .

 

[DrWazzock]

My grandfather never drank alcohol or smoked but died of a heart attack at 70. His brother drank and smoked heavily and lived till he was 85. My grandfather used a hell of lot of salt in his porridge which I think didn’t do him any good.
Predicting longevity isn’t straightforward. But I’m more interested in what’s achieved and quality of life while we are here, not length off time in years.

 

[jendan]

Should of had a hicking stick, they weren't expensive.

Whats a hicking stick?

 

[Lincs Lass]

Whats a hicking stick?

A strong length of rounded wood ,,broken pitch fork shaft was idea , used to help two people lift 16st sacks

 

[Ffermer Bach]

And hardly anyone was fat, never mind obese, or had T2 diabetes.

due to eating less sugar, pop (or high fructose corn syrup) and less carbs

 

[Ffermer Bach]

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

I worked with a lecturer in Otley college, Dick Waterson, he told me, when he left school he used to load a sugar beet lorry by hand with a shovel!

 

[Ramrod]

Whats a hicking stick?

If you've never used one, you haven't lived

 

[Ramrod]

I worked with a lecturer in Otley college, Dick Waterson, he told me, when he left school he used to load a sugar beet lorry by hand with a shovel!

Doubt it was a shovel, we had beet forks back then, we weren't primitive you know!

 

[Netherfield]

A strong length of rounded wood ,,broken pitch fork shaft was idea , used to help two people lift 16st sacks

Pick shaft or 14lb hammer shaft.

approx 60% to 70% of earnings spent on food.

 

[Exfarmer]

Being arrested more like , haven't you heard of the police " Black Jack armed response unit "

The police “black Jack armed response units” were disbanded 30 years ago. Replaced by the “ethnic minority, help and support teams”

 

[Exfarmer]

due to eating less sugar, pop (or high fructose corn syrup) and less carbs

Sugar consumption in the 50’s was double what itis today. Sugar consumption is now at the level of 1900 except for WW1

 

[Exfarmer]

I worked with a lecturer in Otley college, Dick Waterson, he told me, when he left school he used to load a sugar beet lorry by hand with a shovel!

I remember the old boys telling me , when I started growing beet, that back in the 50’s the boss did not allow then anything but forks with knobs on the ends for lading beet as the sugar would leak!

 

[bluebell]

i remember a lot of that, growing up in the 1960s-70s? Chips my mum had to peel a potato, cut into fingers dab dry, fry in a chip pan with fat, now you get it all done for you in a bag? I remember those school dinners? prunes out of a big can in custard, tabioca, bamange a pink thing? Vesta curry out of a packet? what changed a lot of the food was the first package deal foreign holidays to spain and majorica? I remember the first mcdonnalds opening in our area, what an occasion it was about 1976?

 

[Lincs Lass]

i remember a lot of that, growing up in the 1960s-70s? Chips my mum had to peel a potato, cut into fingers dab dry, fry in a chip pan with fat, now you get it all done for you in a bag? I remember those school dinners? prunes out of a big can in custard, tabioca, bamange a pink thing? Vesta curry out of a packet? what changed a lot of the food was the first package deal foreign holidays to spain and majorica? I remember the first mcdonnalds opening in our area, what an occasion it was about 1976?

Tapioca ,,aka ,,frog spawn

 

[Exfarmer]

Pink custard AKA. Windolene

 

[Exfarmer]

There was a large warehouse at Turvey station where they stored Vesta curry in 1 hundredweight sacks on pallets. It was riddled with rats!
Never did try one, hardly surprising

 

[Will 1594]

I remember the old boys telling me , when I started growing beet, that back in the 50’s the boss did not allow then anything but forks with knobs on the ends for lading beet as the sugar would leak!

 

[jendan]

If you've never used one, you haven't lived

Ive carried plenty 10 stone hessian bags of grain up the granary steps when i was young.(luckily missed out on the 16 stone bags of wheat) but still trying to work out how it would be easier with two people and a stick.

 

[jendan]

Doubt it was a shovel, we had beet forks back then, we weren't primitive you know!

We threw mangels into the trailer by hand,Dad didnt allow us to use graips because he said we would stick them.(this thread is turning into that Monty python sketch."when i were a lad")

 

[jendan]

Sugar consumption in the 50’s was double what itis today. Sugar consumption is now at the level of 1900 except for WW1

Oral medicines i think were laced into sugar cubes.