Food in the fifties

glasshouse

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lothians
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Old Boar

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West Wales
Olive oil was used for sunbathing
Raw porradge oats with milk was eaten with threats of bursting your stomach lining
Sausages had no minimum meat requirement and were liable to burst with the amount of fat in them (hence bangers)
Oranges were a treat at Christmas
Chickens had dark meat on their legs and were expensive
Potatoes were peeled to find the slug holes and get rid of the green bits
Bacon had worms
Eggs had lions on them
Blue tits stole the cream from the glass bottles left every morning ready for breakfast
The choice of cheese was cheddar or triangles
Vesta tried to make curry by drying bits of cardboard in sauce
Dripping on bread was a treat
Pepper was grey dust in a tub
There was only one type of lettuce
And I wont even mention corn beef...
 

Derrick Hughes

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

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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