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tapioca pudding - yuk yuk yuk!! we had it in school - used to scoop mine into an envelope and dispose of it later - I could throw up just thinking about it :-S

Thanks for that.........just think what the kids of today missed :-D

Believe it was sago Cynthia

I think sago was frogspawn and tapioca was toadspawn. I wasn't very keen on the school versions of either.

Yes, there was a paper shortage. I can remember, at school, whenever we started a new notebook, the first thing we did was go through it, carefully ruling an extra line at the top of every page.

Fred called them both camel snot! He also told me that liquorice comfits were called rat's turds.

We were well brought up in the fifties!

Toilet rolls were hard Bronco ones so the bread would come in bread and bum paper, soft, tissue type paper which was much more kind to little botties!

There was a fruity sauce about called OK Sauce wasn't there. As I recall, it was not as sharp as Daddies.

So I did Andysmum!!! Which was the pudding we used to call 'frogspawn'? Was it sago or tapioca?????

I remember fruit being scarce which was somewhat compensated for by the orange juice and cod liver oil supplied by the government. Wish I could buy that orange juice now it was delicious!

..There must have been a shortage of paper too, as our local chip shop would have you bring your old newspapers to them.

I remember when grocers had sides of bacon and ham hung up and it was cut to your chosen thickness on a slicing machine. Still remember the lovely mixed aromas in those shops.

I don't recall any foreign shops or people until later years when the councils had built estates for the soldiers being demobbed in 1947.then there were Italians, German wives, some Polish folk .

Many thanks Barry for the trip down memory lane.I am reminded of a friends dad who I loved hearing play his banjo!!!

Mid fifties - I visited regularly a restaurant where one could have spaghetti bol. Used to have to wait 30 minutes for it to be cooked and cost 2/6d.

Myself I used to cook curry and kedgeree. Mum always used Nescafe as did I.

There was a nice Chinese restaurant in the square in Salisbury we used to go to - OH had steak - children and I ate chinese although even aged 3 and 5 could use chopsticks better than me!

You can't get sago any more in British shops but I think it is sold as something else in Asian shops.

I love all milk puddings, think it is genetic, grandfather had one every day of his life and whatever it was made from, he called it a rice pie, so I do too.

Blancmange too, I would kill for it!

Have never made macaroni pudding myself but I think my mother made it with custard powder. I just might have to have a go.

Cynthia - you forgot sago pudding!!

I still cook chips in lard. I think they taste much better than those done in oil.

Our first Chinese Restaurant opened in the 60's, but didn't do very well until the owners stopped insisting on us trying to eat with chopsticks! :-D :-D :-D

we had a brilliant curry caff i Cardiff in the 50's - The Bombay which was down the Docks - now known as Cardiff Bay - it's gone all posh these days

We also had a Chinese Restaurant - but then Cardiff has always been very cosmopolitan because of the trade down the docks

that's how smallpox hit the city in the 60s

Macaroni pudding - semolina pudding - tapioca pudding......mostly made edible by a dollop of jam on the top!

Chips were cooked in lard or the fat from the beef.

Dripping on toast was tastier than Marmite.

A piece of beef could last for days.

Chicken and turkey were only for Christmas.

Tinned salmon and tinned fresh fruit with evaporated milk, was a treat at Sunday tea times.

Apparently, my mother-in-law could make a meal from any part of an animal's body - until she discovered the truth about the parson's nose!!

...and, in my world, avocados were unheard of in the fifties....
....but I loved macaroni pudding baked in the oven mmm :-D

edit: tea bags were introduced in 1952

OH! Barry you've not lived!!

We had Macaroni and cheese at least once a week
During the war we had curried rabbit again once a week
Bananas and oranges were always in the house in the 50's
coffee was always Nescafe ...g/ma had the Camp ..Ugh!
and living next door to an Italian family all my childhood we were used to frying in oil ..they owned I think the first deli in our town and sold large cans of oil which my mum always used, after tasting their chips and preferring them... that was in the 50's
And that is where we first tasted green peppers they used to cook them with almost every meal and when they went on picnics , to which I was always invited as company to their niece we had............cold cooked green pepper sandwiches ...........Now I have never managed to get a taste for that :-D

it sounds disgusting :-(

Worse than (I hated this stuff!)......... blancmange! YUK YUK YUK!

I hate the stuff so much I never bothered finding out how to spell it lol

Scozz we used to have Macoroni pudding at school. All sloppy in milk cooked like rice pudding :-P :-P :-P :-P :-P :-P :-P :-P :-P :-P :-P :-P

macaroni pudding?

:-S

Olive oil came from the pharmacy.

Iceland was just a country

GP

My grandmother would make a stew with a bit of curry powder in it and that would be curry, complete with a dumpling.

I remember my excitement, at some time before 1963, when Heinz advertised their tinned ravioli. Didn't take much!

Of course there was already tinned spaghetti but that didn't count did it? Neither did macaroni because that was pudding not pasta which was foreign stuff.