Food in the 1950's in the U.K.

[PA5COR]

EATING IN THE UK IN THE FIFTIES

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 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 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 never green.
Coffee was Camp, and came in a bottle.
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.
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.
"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.
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.

:lol:The one thing that we never ever had on our table in the fifties …. was elbows!:hyper:

[K7SGJ]

EATING IN THE UK IN THE FIFTIES

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 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 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 never green.
Coffee was Camp, and came in a bottle.
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.
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.
"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.
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.

:lol:The one thing that we never ever had on our table in the fifties …. was elbows!:hyper:

You had a table?

[PA5COR]

Yep, an old log rotted from the forrest....;)

[K7SGJ]

You had a forest?

[PA5COR]

Far away several miles uphill both ways in knee deep snow and sleet with -20 F temps....;)

[K7SGJ]

You had snow? You lucky bastid.

[PA5COR]

We had to apply the snow ourselves, life sucked...

[N2NH]

Half of BeNeLux was still underwater back then if I remember. They were just harnessing the North Sea with the Zuiderzee... I wish they'd do that with the Tappanzee.

[HUGH]

We still had rationing for some while after World War II. My Dad became commercial air crew after leaving the RAF and one of his ploys was to bring back huge bunches of bananas (complete with spiders) which he'd hang outside to ripen and for all the neighbours to see.

[PA5COR]

Food rationing went on here for some time as well, only in the 50's that slowly became a thing of the past.
Our infrastructure was gone, robbed clean by the German tourists, blown up factories etc.
Our parents workd long and hard to get things better, i Salute them.
We indeed had the big flood in 1953 February, that cost 1900 people their life and started the 8th workld wonder as the US Army Corps of Engineers called it the Delta works to protect our country from the sea and build the sea defenses up to a 1 in 10,000 year event.
It cost lots of money but provided work for 30 years for a lot of people and that stimulated the economy as well.

And brought our dredging and watermanagement on the highest level in the world demanding lots of foreign countries for our knowledge and dredging firms.

[kb2vxa]

Union labor is bad and military worse, dragging out works ten times beyond the projected completion date at ten times the cost, but that's a Yank's POV. From the Dutch POV it's an advantage to your overall economy hiring foreign labor, if your guys did it, in 3 years they'd be back on the bread line. That's why everybody loves America... except the Iraqis.

"They were just harnessing the North Sea with the Zuiderzee... I wish they'd do that with the Tappanzee."
It doesn't work that way, this is America. It's been more than a year since construction started on the $3.9 billion crossing, which is made up of two spans, each featuring four travel lanes. Consider yourself lucky it's not in New Jersey or Christie would eat it.