Web Page No 2674
3rd April 2020
1st
Picture. An original Smiths Crisp packet
2nd Picture. Silver sugar tongs
Eating
in the Fifties
To us pasta dishes had not been invented
at home the nearest we got was either macaroni cheese or tinned spaghetti in
tomato sauce.
To us curry was only
a surname.
A
take away was a mathematical problem we were set at school,
Pizza was a
leaning tower somewhere in Italy (we could not spell). Bananas, oranges
and dates only appeared at home at Christmas time.
All crisps were plain
with separate salt packets and not crinkle cut.
Oil was only used for lubricating things and fat was only used for
cooking.
Tea
was made in a teapot using tea leaves and a strainer. It was never green and
never ever in bags.
Cubed
sugar was regarded as being posh and required a special sugar bowl and sugar tongs.
Our fish did
not have fingers in those days or did our chickens have nuggets.
None
of us had ever heard of any sort of yoghurt the only thing like it was junket
made with rennet.
Healthy food
was anything that was edible.
Cooking out of doors was called camping and no one had heard of a
barbeque.
And seaweed was not a food, if anything it
was to spread on the garden.
Kebab
was not even a word never mind a food.
Sugar had a good press
in those days and was regarded as pure white gold.
Prunes
were normally eaten as a medicinal product usually with custard.
Muesli was available but then it was
called cattle feed.
Pineapple only came in chunks or rings in a tin, we had only ever seen a
picture of a real one in a book.
Water came out of a tap and if someone had even suggested bottling it,
labelling it and selling it for more than the price of a bottle of petrol, they
would have been a laughing stock.
Finally:
The things that we never had on our tables at home were elbows, hats and mobile
phones (whatever they are!).
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News and Views:
On this day 3rd April
1960-1965.
On 03/04/1960 the number one single was My Old Man's a Dustman - Lonnie Donegan and the number one
album was South Pacific Soundtrack. The top rated TV show
was Wagon Train (ITV) and the box office smash was Psycho. A pound of today's money was worth £13.68 and Burnley were on the way to becoming the Season's Division
1 champions.
On 03/04/1961 the number one single was Wooden Heart - Elvis Presley and the number one
album was South Pacific Soundtrack. The top rated TV show
was No Hiding Place
On 03/04/1962 the number one single was Wonderful Land - The Shadows and the number one
album was Blue Hawaii Ipswich
Town
On 03/04/1963 the number one single was Foot
Tapper - The Shadows and the number one album was Summer Holiday - Cliff
Richard & the Shadows. The top rated TV show was The Budget (All Channels)
and the box office smash was The Great Escape. A pound of today's money was
worth £12.64 and Everton were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1
champions.
On 03/04/1964 the number one single was Can't
Buy Me Love - The Beatles and the number one album was With the Beatles - The
Beatles. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office
smash was Dr Strangelove. A pound of today's
money was worth £12.24 and Liverpool were on
the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions. The big news story of
the day was British troops in Cyprus
On 03/04/1965 the number one single was The Last Time - Rolling Stones and the number one
album was Rolling Stones Number 2 - The Rolling Stones. The top rated TV show
was Coronation Street
(Granada) and the box office smash was The Sound of Music. A pound of
today's money was worth £11.69 and Manchester
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