Reply With QuoteWhen Sunday dinner was chicken (capon in our house ) ivvrybody set round table , mi dad sed reyt wat would you like and five onnuz wanted a leg
"Get ya elbows off table or Yull get nowt"
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For those of you who are old enough to remember, enjoy. For the rest
treat this as a history lesson!
Very surprising how time and memory has taken its toll. Have things
really changed this much in our time
EATING IN THE UK IN THE FIFTIES consider that:
Pasta had not been invented.
Curry was a surname.
A takeaway was a mathematical problem.
A pizza was something to do with a leaning tower.
Bananas and oranges only appeared at Christmas time.
All crisps were plain; the only choice we had was whether to put the
salt on or not.
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.
Brown bread was something only poor people ate.
Oil was for lubricating, fat was for cooking
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.
Only Heinz made beans.
Fish didn't have fingers in those days.
Eating raw fish was called poverty, not sushi.
None of us had ever heard of yoghurt.
Healthy food consisted of anything edible.
People who didn't peel potatoes were regarded as lazy.
Indian restaurants were only found in India.
Cooking outside was called camping.
Seaweed was not a recognised food.
"Kebab" was not even a word never mind a food.
Sugar enjoyed a good press in those days, and was regarded as being white gold.
Prunes were medicinal.
Surprisingly muesli was readily available, it was called cattle feed.
Pineapples came in chunks in a tin; we had only ever seen a picture of
a real one.
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.
The one thing that we never ever had on our table in the fifties .. was elbows!
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When Sunday dinner was chicken (capon in our house ) ivvrybody set round table , mi dad sed reyt wat would you like and five onnuz wanted a leg
"Get ya elbows off table or Yull get nowt"
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When a "starter" worra Yorkshire filled wi stew/gravy to fill thi up so tha wunt want much meyt after, not a crab cake on a bed of rocket leaves.
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Ennybody kno if thu still mek Capons ? Chiken soort ●☆■Originally Posted by Romared
When Sunday dinner was chicken (capon in our house ) ivvrybody set round table , mi dad sed reyt wat would you like and five onnuz wanted a leg
"Get ya elbows off table or Yull get nowt"
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Good that
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A crust of bread with a bit of brown fat on.
A crust covered with condensed milk.
A stick of rubub and sugar in a page torn out of chronicle.
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Paddywack frum Butchas , bet nubdi remembas that ? Tiger brarn sauce on sum white Mothers Pride bread , dessert /sweet ? Jam on a slice ov Mothers pride bread , allus kept bag frumpt bread to use on slide in Locke park tha went fasta if tha sett onnit like leetnin it wa
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Round the Christmas table mi dad used to give us all a tanner
then asked
" Right,who'd like to buy 6 pennuth o' turkey"
but were we 'appy?
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" Wat ya think it is an octopus " wats an octopus dad !!!When Sunday dinner was chicken (capon in our house ) ivvrybody set round table , mi dad sed reyt wat would you like and five onnuz wanted a leg
"Get ya elbows off table or Yull get nowt"
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Redders sed in his book that John Dennis gev all the players a frozun turkey apiece each Christmas but wun year when business wo slow they ed to settle for a capon. A dint know what a capon wo when a red towd book so a looked it up. It's a castrated rooster thats bin fooarce fed to fatten the buggas up so thaz got better quality meyt. Dunt know if they still do em though.
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