Eating In The 50's (Part 2)

[McMouse]

* Cornflakes had arrived from America but it was obvious that they would never catch on.
* The phrase "boil in the bag" would have been beyond our realms of comprehension.
* The idea of "oven chips" would not have made any sense at all to us.
* The world had not yet benefited from weird and wonderful things
like Pot Noodles, Instant Mash and Pop Tarts.
* We bought milk and cream at the same time in the same bottle.
* Sugar enjoyed a good press in those days, and was regarded as being white gold.
* Lettuce and tomatoes in winter were just a rumour.
* Most soft fruits were seasonal except perhaps at Christmas.
* Prunes were medicinal.
* Surprisingly muesli was readily available in those days, it was called cattle feed.
* Turkeys were definitely seasonal.
* Pineapples came in chunks in a tin; we had only ever seen a picture of a real one.
* We didn't eat Croissants in those days because we couldn't pronounce them,
we couldn't spell them and we didn't know what they were.
* We thought that Baguettes were a serious problem the French needed to deal with.
* Garlic was used to ward off vampires, but never used to flavour bread.
* Water came out of the tap, if someone had suggested bottling it and charging treble for it
they would have become a laughing stock.
* Food hygiene was all about washing your hands before meals.
* Campylobacter, Salmonella, E.coli, Listeria, and Botulism were all called "food poisoning."
* The one thing that we never ever had on our table in the fifties …. elbows.

[boxtops]

I remember my sister saying that at the end of the war, she queued for a banana in the local shop.

[Svejk]

When Ma made Vesta beef curry we were so excited to try it I can't describe it.Same when we had yoghurt, shoveling sugar in the pot to make it palatable.
Of course, Pa wouldn't then or ever in his life eat 'foreign muck'.
Imagine going through your whole life without trying anything new/ foreign.

[starone]

All of these are perfectly credible and I can vouch for them.

[Thisoldbird]

In 1956 I was on a maternity ward having given birth to my son..in those days it was a 10 day confinement..

An Aunt came to the hospital to visit me, bearing a gift.

If never seen Frozen Chicken, but inside a well made cardboard box was a tiny frozen uncooked chicken.

What the hell she expected me to do with it on a maternity ward I'll never know.
I have no recollection of what happened to it.