Following my comments in this post and this one on how food was in Fifties’ Britain, I found my synapses buzzing. I thought I’d just…
Month: January 2013
The debate sparked by the post on 50s food, regarding Welfare Foods – in particular, the Orange Juice – sent me scampering off around Google.…
It isn’t just the food that has changed in the last 60 years. Imagine a time when advertising like this was acceptable?
Again, behind the cut, ‘cos it do go on a bit.
Somebody sent me a mail circular the other day (she knows who she is) – one of those humorous lists such as turned up with daily regularity back in our Usenet days. This particular one was referencing our eating habits in the 1950s. Much of the list I recognised, though I disagreed with quite a few points. This is probably due to an age difference in the writer and myself – I was born in 1953 so my Fifties’ memories will be late Fifties… say 1957 onward. I think perhaps the originator of the list is a few years older than myself and may recall the early years of the decade when I was a mere twinkle in my old dad’s eye.
It’s a long list, so it and my comments are behind the cut. (My, there’s another old-timer’s habit)
Do, please leave your memories and comments. I’d love to read them.
Vanilla-Rooibos Fig Newtons | My New Roots. No yeast involved, but what looks to be a lovely baked treat. We both love Fig Rolls and…
I follow the Food & Drink category on Pinterest, though I am beginning to wonder why. It is so rarely that following a pin yields…
As I mentioned somewhere yesterday, this recipe felt more like mad scientist chemistry than home-cooking due to the number of specialist ingredients. I am reproducing the recipe in full, as written in the original – I am linking back to the original.