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 jot down a few extra random thoughts. I am confining my memories to when I lived in Sheffield, where I was born in 1953 and stayed until November 1962. Some …
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When Food Was Crude, Part 2
Continued from yesterday 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. EATING IN THE UK IN THE FIFTIES (Part 2) Coconuts only appeared when the fair came to town. …and …
When Food Was Crude
1950s Crude Food Poster by Miles_Harrison Browse other Food Posters 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 …