General Chat

I love that list and can identify with it totally.

We thought we were living the exotic life when, by the 60's, we were dining on Chicken/Scampi in a basket and a Vesta curry.

I can remember the excitement of the arrival of cheese and onion crisps.....wow!

People used olive oil for rough skin.

Peering into a small freezer in a shop was mind blowing.

I regarded yoghurt as something akin to curdled milk.




And yes......definitely no elbows on the table. Knife and fork to be held correctly too!


Those were the days...... :-D

There's a thought.....

what did Italians eat before Marco Polo brought the recipe for noodles (spaghetti?) from China, and tomatoes were brought from the "New World" ?

:-D

First thing I thought of that Dazed, what did Itailians eat then... :-D :-D :-D

I am sure that all the Italians living in the UK at that time may have something to say about pasta not being invented. Also they would have been eating pizzas at home.

The first Curry/Indian restaurant was in the West End c1900. And If I remember rightly, the King of Sweden used it regulary and had lager imported to drink with his curry.

I know my dad in the 50's made a killer curry with RICE...... Usually lamb left over from Sunday roast...

Kebab would have been a word in Turkey......

Muesli was around

Really this list is not that accurate. Have seen something similar in the past. How quickly we forget just how long certain things have actually been around in the UK.

Didn't you have macaroni & cheese?

Good list!

:-D

Pasta had not been invented.
Curry was a surname.
A takeaway was a mathematical problem.
A pizza was something to do with a leaning tower.
Bananas and oranges only appeared at Christmas.
All crisps were plain; the only choice was whether to put the salt on or not.
A Chinese chippy was a foreign carpenter.
Rice was a milk pudding, and never, ever part of our dinner.
A Big Mac was what we wore when it was raining.
Brown bread was something only poor people ate.
Oil was for lubricating, fat was for cooking
Tea was made in a teapot using tea leaves - and it was never green.
Coffee was Camp, and came in a bottle.
Cubed sugar was regarded as posh.
Only Heinz made baked beans.
Fish didn't have fingers in those days.
Eating raw fish was called poverty, not sushi.
None of us had ever heard of yoghurt.
Healthy food consisted of anything edible.
People who didn't peel potatoes were regarded as lazy.
Indian restaurants were only found in India.
Cooking outside was called camping.
Seaweed was not a recognised food. (Except apparently in Wales.)
??? Kebab ??? was not even a word never mind a food.
Sugar enjoyed a good press and was regarded as being white gold.
Prunes were medicinal.
Surprisingly muesli was readily available; it was called cattle feed.
Pineapples came in chunks in a tin; we had only ever seen a picture of a real one.
Water came out of the tap. If someone had suggested bottling it and charging more than petrol for it they would have become a laughing stock!

The one thing that we NEVER, ever, had on our table in the fifties ... was elbows!