EATING IN THE FIFTIES

* 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 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 😀 😀