Went shopping in Vintage shops today, apparently every 10 years the companies add an inch

[EleanorReally]

so what was size 10 in the 1970s is now size 6.
to make us feel better!
Does that mean there were less size 20s in the 1970s? or equivalent.
how come,
there must have been sedentary occupations.
what is to blame?
fast food,
sugar in everything?

Most food was pretty horrible. No incentive to over eat. Loads of stews and that kind of thing to utilise cheap cuts.
^ this. Food was dull.flabby white bread,spam and luncheon meat. Margarine like melted plastic ( stork sb) Irishstew which was lambs vertebra and pearl barley.
Inedible pink blancmange for pudding. No snack food.
No wonder we were thin.

A family regular was liver casserole, thickened with flour.

Then there was mum's cauliflower cheese which always seemed to have a few greenfly floating in the sauce.

You cooked a main meal a day and everyone ate it.

And it was more likely to be eaten by everyone at the same time, around a table - so everyone got a healthy, if not always very exciting meal every day.

I don't agree that most food was pretty horrible! My mother was an excellent cook - my father could cook fine too. We ate mostly traditional British dishes, but also delicious curries and sometimes Chinese food. And fruit and veg had much more flavour, and you could buy ripe fruit in season, plums, strawberries all juicy that could be hulled . .

those videos are shocking