Food in the fifties

[glasshouse]

 

[Ramrod]

Bloody right an-all

 

[Bogweevil]

Olive oil was put on burns not on salads

 

[glasshouse]

Olive oil was put on burns not on salads

Olive oil was popeyes burd

 

[yellowbelly]

These were 4 for 1d.

Probably can't eat a Black Jack nowadays without 'taking the knee'

 

[Old Boar]

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...

 

[Easedoff]

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.

 

[DaveGrohl]

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

 

[Hilly]

my parents born early 30”s I think they saw the best of the U.K. probably best era to be born in.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

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

 

[Hilly]

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

Not everyone did Manual Labour .

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Not everyone did Manual Labour .

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

 

[Hilly]

How did you lift your slag and firtilzer then , how did you move your milk churns and move your hay bales, your corn sacks

Who did the book work etc etc , not everyone did manual Labour not everyone worked on a farm .

 

[No wot]

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These were 4 for 1d.

Probably can't eat a Black Jack nowadays without 'taking the knee'

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

 

[Lincs Lass]

Nobody had food allergies and only two choices at meal times because whatever was on the plate ,you either ate it or it got reheated untill you did ,,according to my grandparents

 

[andybk]

Hardly any 4x4 trucks either (edit or tractors) , unless you were lucky and had a landrover (prob ex army) or a military lorry

 

[glasshouse]

Who did the book work etc etc , not everyone did manual Labour not everyone worked on a farm .

Lorry drivers loaded by hand , and then unloaded same way

 

[glasshouse]

Everything was kept and reused, grease proof breadwrapping was stored and used to wrap sandwiches
Jars were kept for jam
Milk and juice bottles were returned
A zero waste society

 

[Lincs Lass]

Petting zoos did not exist, every animal ended up on a hook,,

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Who did the book work etc etc , not everyone did manual Labour not everyone worked on a farm .

Everyone was universal in those days , like the oil was , oils a nightmare now, when mum got married dad bought her a milking stool