EATING IN THE FIFTIES
* Pasta was not eaten.
* Curry was a surname.
* 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 pizza was something to do with a leaning tower.>
* The main vegetables known to us were potatos, peas, beans, carrots
and cabbage, anything else was regarded as being a bit suspicious.
* All crackers were plain; the only choice we had was whether to put
the salt on or not.
* Condiments consisted of salt, pepper and vinegar.
* Soft drinks were called pop.
* Coke was something that we mixed with coal to make it last longer.
* Rice was a milk pudding, and never, ever, part of our dinner.
* A microwave was something out of a science fiction movie.
* Brown bread was something only poor people ate.
Oil was for lubricating your bike not for cooking, fat was for
cooking
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.
* Cubed sugar was regarded as posh.
* Figs and dates appeared every Christmas, but no one ever ate them.
* Salad cream was a dressing for salads, mayonnaise did not exist
* Hors d’oeuvre was a spelling mistake.
* Soup was a main meal.
* The menu consisted of what we were given, and was set in stone.
* Only Heinz made beans, there were no others.
* Leftovers went in the dog, never in the bin.
* Special food for dogs and cats was unheard of.
* Sauce was either brown or red.
* Fish was only eaten on Fridays.
* Frozen food was called ice cream.
* Ice cream only came in one flavour, vanilla.
* None of us had ever heard of yoghurt.
* Healthy food had to have the ability to stick to your ribs.
* Indian restaurants were only found in India .
* Cheese only came in a hard lump.
* Eating out was called a picnic.
* Cooking outside was called camping.
* Hot cross buns were only eaten at Easter time.
* Pancakes were only eaten on Shrove Tuesday – and on that day it was> compulsory.
* Cornflakes had just arrived from America but it was obvious that
they would never catch on.
* 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.
* Prunes were purely 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.
* 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.
* Garlic was used to ward off vampires, but never used to flavour
anything.
* Water came out of the tap, if someone had suggested bottling and
charging for it they would have become a laughing stock.
* Food hygiene was only about washing your hands before meals.
* Campylobacter, Salmonella, E.coli, Listeria, and Botulism were all
called “food poisoning.”
However, the one thing that we never ever had on our table in the fifties ..ELBOWS
