Originally Posted by bats

6d a week pocket money would buy a 4d packet of Oxo crisps and a 22d oacket of peanuts. Combine the two and it was heaven..

Originally Posted by Auld Yin

Weekly income 6 pence weekly expenditure 5 pence, result happiness. Weekly income 6 pence weekly expenditure 26 pence, result misery.

Originally Posted by Oink

Did your nan email that to you?

Originally Posted by montreal mike

if she were still around that would make her 123 years old, a candidate for the guiness book of world's records

Originally Posted by Oink

Well an aunt or uncle who has just retired?

Originally Posted by montreal mike

eating in the UK in the 50's

Pasta had not been invented.
Curry was a surname.
Olive oil was kept in the medicine cabinet.
Spices came from the Middle East where 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.
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 pop.
Coke was something that we put on the fire.
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.
A microwave was something out of a science fiction movie.
Brown bread was something only poor people ate.
Oil was for lubricating, fat was for cooking
Bread and jam was a treat.
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.
Figs and dates appeared every Christmas, but no one ever ate them.
Coconuts only appeared when the fair came to town.
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.
Only Heinz made beans.
Leftovers went in the dog.
Special food for dogs and cats was unheard of.
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.
For the best taste, fish and chips had to be eaten out of old newspapers.
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 yoghurt.
Jelly and blancmange was only eaten at parties.
If we said that we were on a diet, we simply got less.
Healthy food consisted of anything edible.
People who didn't peel potatoes were regarded as lazy.
Indian restaurants were only found in India .
Brunch was not a meal.
If we had eaten bacon lettuce and tomato in the same sandwich we would have been certified.
A bun was a small cake back then.
The word" Barbie" was not associated with anything to do with food.
Eating outside was a picnic.
Cooking outside was called camping.
Seaweed was not a recognized food.
Pancakes were only eaten on Pancake Tuesday
"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 they would never catch on.
The phrase "boil in the bag" would have been beyond comprehension.
The idea of "oven chips" would not have made any sense at all to us.
The world had not heard of Pot Noodles, Instant Mash and Pop Tarts.
Sugar enjoyed a good press in those days, and was regarded as being white gold.
Lettuce and tomatoes in winter were only found abroad.
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.
We never heard of a Croissant, and we certainly couldn't pronounce.
We thought that Baguettes were a problem the French needed to deal with.
Garlic was used to ward off vampires, but never used to flavour food.
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.
Food hygiene was all about washing your hands before meals.
Campylobacter, Salmonella, E.coli, Listeria, and Botulism were all called "food poisoning".

The one thing that we never ever had on our table in the fifties: elbows

Originally Posted by MillieF

Siouxie!!! That word Jublie together with the word triangular shape....shed however many years faster than a course of Botox!

I had 6d a week pocket money....it was beyond riches, and involved 'Jackie' the mag, and lots of other things with change to spare

My son has never been that happy, nor so content with his lot and he doesn't care...that's good isn't it

Originally Posted by BEVS

I loved my golliwog.

I was also partial to sherbert dabs when I could get my hands on one.

Originally Posted by Siouxie

When I was very young I got 3d a week (a threepenny bit), I used to buy a 1d bar of cadbury's chocolate for my dog (we didn't know it was poisonous in those days); a 2d bar of chocolate for myself or sometimes I would get farthing chews and save the rest.

Originally Posted by ultrarunner

Lets not forget Racism was at its peak i.e. blatant discrimination in the form of violence, name calling, job hirings, signs et al

Originally Posted by montreal mike

I left England in 1953 and returned in 1960

gone for 7 years

I noticed the influx of blacks from the west indies who had arrived during that time period and i do remember the resentment by some of the locals and sure enough there were cases of racism

I noticed how Harrow Middlesex had changed in that period with quite a few families from India and West Pakistan having settled there