Food in the fifties

[Lincs Lass]

still trying to work out how it would be easier with two people and a stick.

Back in the days of granaries and everything was stored in sacks ,,two men worked side by side to stack the bags ,the method was hold the stick in one hand and the ear of the bag in the other ,then both could lift the sack of the floor in one and stack them as high as needed ,,It looks complicated to a novice but once you get the hang of it ,,lifting bags was easy .

 

[jendan]

Tapioca ,,aka ,,frog spawn

Semolina and bread pudding(left over bread before it went mouldy)

 

[jendan]

Back in the days of granaries and everything was stored in sacks ,,two men worked side by side to stack the bags ,the method was hold the stick in one hand and the ear of the bag in the other ,then both could lift the sack of the floor in one and stack them as high as needed ,,It looks complicated to a novice but once you get the hang of it ,,lifting bags was easy .

Would you not have to bend down though,to put the stick under the bag? Our bags were just tied in the middle,not with two lugs.

 

[Lincs Lass]

Would you not have to bend down though,to put the stick under the bag? Our bags were just tied in the middle,not with two lugs.

Because back then it was 16st oat sacks filled to the top ,no room to tie a neck ,,in the 70s when we bagged up stock feed spuds for the cattle ,dad and me put hundreds of 8st hessian sacks onto trailers and then lay them.on your shoulder to carry into the crew yard

 

[BrianV]

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

What the hecks a hicking stick?

 

[BrianV]

Because back then it was 16st oat sacks filled to the top ,no room to tie a neck ,,in the 70s when we bagged up stock feed spuds for the cattle ,dad and me put hundreds of 8st hessian sacks onto trailers and then lay them.on your shoulder to carry into the crew yard

8st was for the boys, good old West of England barley sacks were 12st & just about ok once on your back but a right old struggle to get em up there if you were on your own, reckon we must have been a lot stronger or perhaps naive back then!

 

[Ramrod]

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.

Two people, each has one hand holding stick at each end. This forms a ‘cradle’, other hands grab the ‘ears’ of the sack, both people swing and throw sack up into air with a twisting motion, one of the people steps under the sack as it ‘lands’ on that person’s shoulder. Then carry up steps or onto heap etc. easy peasy

 

[jendan]

Pink custard AKA. Windolene

Never thought of it as that before . Birds Angel Delight and Smash instant Potatoes from the little laughing Martians.

 

[Ffermer Bach]

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

yes, you are right, I remember him saying now, and he said you kept putting boards up on the wagon as it was loaded

 

[Derrick Hughes]

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)

Yes , mum was also in charging of the poultry unit sending the eggs to the packing station and selling Potatoes at the door

 

[jendan]

Two people, each has one hand holding stick at each end. This forms a ‘cradle’, other hands grab the ‘ears’ of the sack, both people swing and throw sack up into air with a twisting motion, one of the people steps under the sack as it ‘lands’ on that person’s shoulder. Then carry up steps or onto heap etc. easy peasy

So 3 people then.I would have to watch in person to see how it is done.

 

[BrianV]

Two people, each has one hand holding stick at each end. This forms a ‘cradle’, other hands grab the ‘ears’ of the sack, both people swing and throw sack up into air with a twisting motion, one of the people steps under the sack as it ‘lands’ on that person’s shoulder. Then carry up steps or onto heap etc. easy peasy

That would be ok but West of Englands tied on the combine with baler cord just with a centre throat so didn't have the two ears but we could grab the bag, unfortunately down here in the West Country we had not yet modernised to a hicking stick so used to grab hands under the middle of the bag as the day went on!

 

[jendan]

Yes , mum was also in charging of the poultry unit sending the eggs to the packing station and selling Potatoes at the door

We sold potatoes and eggs at the door.They are probably no dearer now than in the 80s. There was always a surplus of eggs in late Spring,early Summer which were taken into one of the market town shops to sell.

 

[DrWazzock]

Yes mother was still lifting 4 stone bags of spuds into customers cars in her 70’s. In her younger days she once carried a 12 stone sack up the granary stairs to win a bet with the workers. She was a powerful woman used to hard labour from an early age. She played for a local women’s football team before people made a fuss about such things. She used to load beet lorries with an MF35 loader, no cab, out in the rain with a coat on right up until I was born. Thereafter she kept pigs and poultry and won a prize at Smithfield for the best dressed bird.
Next lot is gyms, saunas and jacuzzis.

 

[teslacoils]

I was surprised when moving to Lincolnshire in 1991 that none of the schools had their own kitchens.

At primary school the lunches were ace (in Yorkshire). Fish, pie (mince in gravy), salad, puddings. On a tray. Lovely little Duralex glass. Parade past the head to make sure you'd ate what you asked for.

I'm sure modern home "economy" isn't helped by lack of knowledge. Why spend £4 on some chicken breast portions when you can get the whole chicken? Really joining a chicken is a very basic skill. My son is in year 9 and three years of "food tech" have taught him about diabetes and how to make a salad.

 

[DaveGrohl]

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

My comment was regarding the entire population, not just farmers.

 

[Agrivator]

Because back then it was 16st oat sacks filled to the top ,no room to tie a neck ,,in the 70s when we bagged up stock feed spuds for the cattle ,dad and me put hundreds of 8st hessian sacks onto trailers and then lay them.on your shoulder to carry into the crew yard

I don't believe anyone could get more than 8 st of oats into a 16 st sack.

And anyway, hard physical work never did anybody any good.

 

[Lowland1]

Male life expectancy was less than 65 years of age in 1950 so it wasn't all roses.

 

[Oldmacdonald]

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?

I think perhaps food changed irrespective of package holidays.

Chip shops also did that for you in the 60's and 70's too.

 

[Old Boar]

Toe nail pie. Apple pie at school when they did not bother to take the core out.