Eating in the fifties

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Nov 2nd 2012, 1:55 am

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Re: Eating in the fifties

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Nov 2nd 2012, 8:59 am

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Re: Eating in the fifties

Dripping- never could see why my mum used to like it spread on bread.

Gross.

Nov 2nd 2012, 9:08 am

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Re: Eating in the fifties

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Dripping- never could see why my mum used to like it spread on bread.

Gross.

The right stuff is awesome, pork dripping, especially the brown jelly at the bottom of the pot, wonderful.

Nov 2nd 2012, 9:12 am

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The right stuff is awesome, pork dripping, especially the brown jelly at the bottom of the pot, wonderful.

I remember it, I ate it way back then, but I wouldn't touch it now. Unhealthy or what?

Nov 2nd 2012, 9:15 am

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I remember it, I ate it way back then, but I wouldn't touch it now. Unhealthy or what?

Incredibly unhealthy, but so tasty..

Nov 2nd 2012, 9:17 am

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The right stuff is awesome, pork dripping, especially the brown jelly at the bottom of the pot, wonderful.

Whoooooopy doooooooooooo !

Nov 2nd 2012, 9:17 am

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Incredibly unhealthy, but so tasty..

Bit like pork crackling

Nov 2nd 2012, 9:20 am

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As one who was born into rationing after the war (start up the violins) I can remember a lot of that.

It is said that the British diet was never healthier than it was during WW2.

Or after TBH. So, Yes & yes & yes.

Nov 2nd 2012, 9:21 am

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Bit like pork crackling

Sadly yes

Nov 2nd 2012, 9:25 am

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Sadly yes

I remember being able to go into a butchers shop and buy pork crackling. Now you have to buy it in little bags and it's nothing like the real thing, and the type of butchers that sold them seem to have all gone.

Nov 2nd 2012, 9:29 am

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Re: Eating in the fifties

I make good pork crackling,

Nov 2nd 2012, 9:34 am

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Our Oz organic butcher has it however you want it. Should I mention the crocodile burgers he sells?

Nov 2nd 2012, 10:28 am

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Our Co-op had one of those tube systems to transfer the money from the counter to the cash person who then sent the receipt back with the change,

I had a Christmas job when I was 16 when I was at the other end of some of those tubes at a department store in Manchester. I had to sit on a chair on a rail sliding up and down a wall of these tube things, open the tube, take the money, put the change in, then dispatch the thing back up the right tube.

And the pop man came and delivered stone flagons of dandelion and burdock. You returned the empty flagon the following week.

We had a bread van that called several times week and sold lovely warm fresh-baked loaves. My mum and I used to share the crust, with butter, while it was still warm and crisp.