My mum used to put stork on our bread

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Was that par for the course during the seventies? Or unreasonable?

We had Krona, vile stuff.

I remember my mum buying golden granulated sugar "because it's healthier" PMSL

at eating dry Marvel. Actually dry heaving.

But it wasn't just stork, it was stork sb.
I thought it was standard for the 70's. Then everyone moved onto flora when it came out. Unless you were one of those poor buggars whose mother was on a diet and had gold.

Some form of marge - not sure which. And yes, white bread and available pretty much every meal - it was cheap and filling, and when times were hard it was a way of making sure hungry children got full.

I still buy milk roll sometimes as DD loves it.

What's wrong with stork? I use whichever butter or marg is on offer when I go to the shop.

Daisy I actually didn't mind Korona

I'd probably hate it if I had it now though

I realise I'm an old fart but does anyone remember the sugar strike in the 70's?

We had to change to light brown sugar in our coffee and a sort of heavy dark sugar on our porridge

dasiy and worra Korona, yes that was it in a gold a blue foil pack? I have no memory of the taste, just the packaging.

Lurpack in this house only too. Anchor is foul.

my mother was the only woman I knew who could make cauliflower cheese that didnt taste remotely of cheese... she was so bloody stingy!

we didnt have cheese on toast either... we had tomatoes on toast,with a bit of grated cheese on top...

I am sure she had some sort of anti-cheese thing going on!

I think my DM looked down on flora. Stork had a royal crest thing on it, by appointment to the queen or princess michael of kent or something, still has I think.

We moved to Gold early nineties. We were going up in the world back then.

Oh, Olympia2012, I was really close with a particular cousin when I was little. Loved playing with her, but hated having dinner in her house, because my Aunt and Uncle always had Blue Band. Hideous stuff. Urgh, I can almost taste it still. Vile!!!

mmm st. ivel gold.

I make my own milk bread though and made butter as a kid, in one of those wooden churn thingies.

Don't remember that worra - but I do remember I used to hide the porridge under my bed! That went down well when she found it!!

We had Vitalite. Dad adores Lurpak but my Mam never let him buy any as it was too expensive. Even now, with plenty of disposable income and no kids at home they still deem Lurpak too expensive (out of habit, I think). Dad's eyes nearly popped out when he spotted it in our fridge

Was stork for me then Vitalite. No it's Anchor spreadable. Salted.

70's child so yes bread was served with every meal. It was the filler. And there was a lot of us to fill. A loaf wouldn't last one sitting and we all fought over who got the crust.

I bet it did Lentilly

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Poor DH had weird milk selections as a kid as his mother was forever trying different types. They went through phases of goats milk, skimmed milk, soya milk and god knows what else.

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What was the spread/butter that had the advert where they peeled off the foil and there was a dairy scene carved in the top?

We got that once. Disappointment doesn't describe the feeling as the foil was peeled off to reveal - some spread or butter.

gold was vile. It was like spreading yellow paint on your bread

I remember Gold as being very, very yellow.

I always wanted vitalite because of the advert with the singing Jamaican sunflowers going "oooh, oooh, vitalite mmm-mmm that's right"

I remember us having tubs of Stork for sandwiches, but to cook and fry with we had the blocks of Echo margarine, came in an orange wrapper. Anyone else remember it?

was there not a spread called Mellow Yellow? I seem to remember that..

I'm another old fart WorraLiberty, I remember the sugar shortage, the bread shortage, the three day week, the scheduled blackouts ... my, the 70's were fun!

My mum wouldn't touch margarine ("That's fur payr folks" ) but was eternally dieting; so whilst dad, my sister and myself scoffed butter on Mothers' Pride, she scraped Outline onto Nimble bread for herself. And it had to be bread, not toast, as warmth would make the Outline degrade into what looked like plastic and water which it may well have been.