[guide.chat] truth or fiction the fifties

From: "harold kitching" <harold.kitching01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "pam camidge" <pam.camidge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "guide chat" <guide.chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 15:47:26 +0100
Truth or fiction  : Fifties!

 

 

 
 

This should entitled "The Fifties"!!!!

 

for those of us of a certain age

EATING IN THE Fifties

Pasta had not been invented.
Curry was an unknown entity.
Olive oil was kept in the medicine cabinet
Spices came from the Middle East where we believed that they were 
used for embalming
Herbs were used to make rather dodgy medicine.
A Takeaway was a mathematical problem.
A Pizza was something to do with a leaning tower.
Bananas and oranges only appeared at Christmas time.
The only vegetables known to us were spuds, peas, carrots and 
 cabbage,
anything else was regarded as being a bit suspicious.
All crisps were plain; the only choice we had was whether to put the 
 salt on or not.
Condiments consisted of salt, pepper, vinegar and brown sauce if we 
 were lucky.
Soft drinks were called p o p .
Coke was something that we mixed with coal to make it last longer.
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.
A Pizza Hut was an Italian shed.
Spaghetti was a small town in Bolognese.
A microwave was something out of a science fiction movie.
Brown bread was something only posh people ate.
Oil was for lubricating your bike not for cooking, fat was for 
cooking
Bread and jam was a punishment.
Tea was made in a teapot using tea leaves, not bags.
The tea cosy was the forerunner of all the energy saving devices 
that we hear so much about today.
Tea had only one colour, black. Green tea etc. was not British.
Coffee was only drunk when we had no tea and came out of a bottle that had been 
in the cupboard for 5 years
Cubed sugar was regarded as a bit of an over kill.
Figs and dates appeared every Christmas, but no one ever ate them.
Sweets and confectionery were called toffees.
Coconuts only appeared when the fair came to town.
Black puddings were mined in Bolton Lancashire.
Jellied eels were peculiar to Londoners.
Salad cream was a dressing for salads, mayonnaise did not exist
Hors d'oeuvre was a spelling mistake.
The starter was our main meal.
Soup was a main meal.
The menu consisted of what we were given and was set in stone
Only Heinz made beans, any others were impostors
Leftovers went in the dog.
Special food for dogs and cats was unheard of.
Sauce was either brown or red.
Fish was only eaten on Fridays.
Fish didn't have fingers in those days.
Eating raw fish was called poverty, not sushi.

Ready meals only came from the fish and chip shop.
fish and chips had to be eaten out of old newspapers that you had to provide 
yourself
Frozen food was called ice cream.
Nothing ever went off in the fridge because we never had one.
Ice cream only came in one colour and one flavour.

None of us had ever heard of yogurt.
Jelly and blancmange was only eaten at parties.
If we said that we were on a diet, we simply got less (more for us).
Healthy food consisted of anything edible.
Healthy food had to have the ability to stick to your ribs.
Calories were mentioned but they had nothing at all to do with food.
The only criteria concerning the food that we ate were:1 - could we afford it. 
2 - Did we like 
 it (2 wasn't always an option)
People who didn't peel potatoes were regarded as lazy so and so's.
Indian restaurants were only found in India .
A seven course meal had to last a week.
Brunch was not a meal.
Cheese only came in a hard lump.
If we had eaten bacon lettuce and tomato on the same sandwich we 
would have been certified
A bun was a small cake back then.
A tart was a fruit filled pastry, not a lady of horizontal pleasure.
The word" Barbie" was not associated with anything to do with food
Eating outside was called a picnic.
Cooking outside was called camping.
Seaweed was not a recognised source of food.
Offal was only eaten when we could afford it.
Eggs only came fried or boiled.
Hot cross buns were only eaten at Easter time.
Pancakes were only eaten on Pancake Tuesday, in fact in those days 
 it was compulsory.
"Kebab" was not even a word never mind a food.
Hot dogs were a type of sausage that only the Americans ate.
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 - same for peaches
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 "Tummy ache."

The one thing that we never ever had on our table in the Fifties, 
 "Elbows"

 

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