Web Page  No 2414

13^th  October 2017

The last book in the Drayton Series is now available

First Picture: Smiths Crisp Packet

Second Picture: Camp Coffee Jar

Third Picture: Darning a sock

Forth Picture: Morris Minor 1,000,000 for a time this lived in Lealand Road.

Eating, Drinking, Clothing and Life in the 1950’s

More from the past!!!!!

Pasta had not been invented.

Curry was still a surname.

A takeaway was a mathematical problem.

A pizza was something to do with a leaning tower somewhere abroad.

Bananas, dates and oranges only appeared at Christmas time.

All crisps were plain; the only choice we had 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 main course at dinner time.

A Big Mac was what we wore when it was raining.

Brown bread was something only poor people ate.

Oil was for lubricating locks and bicycles, fat was for cooking

Tea was made in a teapot using tea leaves and was never green or in little bags.

Coffee was Camp - and came in a bottle with a master and servant on the label.

Cubed sugar was regarded as posh.

Only Heinz made 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 and normally starchy.

People who didn't peel potatoes were regarded as lazy.

Indian restaurants were only found in India.

Cooking outside was called camping.

“Camping” was something you did not talk about.

Seaweed was not a recognised food.

"Kebab" was not even a word never mind a food.

Sugar enjoyed a good press in those days and was regarded as being white gold.

Prunes were medicinal and taken once a week, if we needed it or not.

Surprisingly muesli was readily available, but then it was called cattle feed.

Pineapples came in chunks or slices in a tin; we had only ever seen a picture of a real one.

What was Rock Salmon anyway?

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.

And the one thing that we never, ever had on our table in the fifties .. …was our elbows!

Coffee came mixed with chicory and never in little tablets that went into machines.

There were no such things as French Fries, we had Chips!

A torn pair of trousers were either thrown away, darned or put on a scarecrow or guy, not worn in the street as the new fashion.

Worn sheets were turned sides to middle, worn collars and cuffs on shirts were turned and leather patches sewn onto the worn elbows and cuffs of sports jackets.

Every week mother boiled lights for the cat.

We had no child proof tops on bottles.

We could not go shopping on a Sunday as the shops were closed.

If we were out on our own we were told to approach a stranger to help us across the road.

Children had real names not names such as Kiora, Blade, Ridge or Vanilla.

Only girls had pierced ears.

No cars had seat belts.

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Peter

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