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 echo marg for a bit. Possibly just for cooking.

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Bread in a packet was rare in our house.
Did anyone go to school with their lunch wrapped in an empty bread packet?

yep -warburtons worked best lol

While we're at it - anyone know what happened to the butter mountain?

I think they turned it into a skateboard park

Yes that was it vitalite, I now can't stop singing the theme tune

When I first moved down to London from Lancashire 15 years ago, nobody had heard of Warburtons down here, and I missed it so much I would bring a dozen loaves of Toastie back down with me whenever I went back home for a visit.... thank goodness times have changed and it is now the best selling bread down here too!

Oh now I quite miss Krona. Sniff, sniff. We always had that when I was a kid.

Bananas I remember that, lunch wrapped up in an empty bread packet!

Caught my hubs putting Stork on the children's bread and 'butter' WHEN we had perfectly good Anchor Spreadable in the fridge. Oooo, I was quite put out as I don't like Stork on bread! It's only for cakes (not even for icing cakes) to my mind/taste-buds.

He was unreasonable but in the 70s? Perhaps it wasn't quite so bad?

Toastie. Hmmmmm.

Also now singing Vitalite theme tune.

I hate the Warburtons wrapper...it's stupid and doesn't keep the bread fresh

Kingsmill rocks!

I drink tea with meals, especially bread based ones. I know it reduces iron up take and I Don't Care!

My Dad wouldn't let us have a drink with food, not even water. You had to wait 'till afterwards.

I always think of him when taking a big slurp of tea part way through my sandwich.
With either real butter most often Olivio or the supermarkets equivalent.

Worra, I am the opposite of you, I love the waxy wrapper and find that plastic bags make the bread sweat and go mouldy quicker. Warburtons may go a bit stale, but it never seems to go green.

squeaky bread doesn't last a fecking day with my lot

It's got more chance of turning purple with pink spots than going mouldy

Had some Yorkshire Butter the other week, I got it in the Co-op it was jolly nice. I can recommend.

I think my favourite butter is KerryGold

I don't remember having it, I thought it was a cooking fat.

Cooking as in baking, that is.

Ah yet another thread that I can personally stick my oar in on, and say that my late mum was in one of the first ever Stork taste test ads with Leslie Crowther, in the (then) only supermarket in Deptford, round about 1971. Bear in mind that margarine had been around since the 1900s, Stork then tasted different; the stuff you get now for cakes is nothing like the Stork I had as a child. And thank you for reminding me of Outline and many other things, ah nostalgia, past is a different country, they use different spreads there ...

I'm only 49 but when I tell the DCs about sterilised milk, the 3 day week, queuing for bread, power cuts et al I think I sound worse than the 4 Yorkshire men sketch in Monty Python. Speaking of which, here's their take on the Leslie Crowther ads ....

My mom bought margarine, I think it was Imperial, but not sure. I buy butter and Becel with olive oil margarine, not sure if it is in the UK. I don't use the butter except for cooking eggs or baking, dh and ds butter.

Stork's for pastry. I remember tubs of margarine the one with the blue stripes - I think it might have been called blue band; it was horrid but spreadable which the butter never was. I also remember Krona and that was horrid too. I love Anchor butter and always did - my mother said it was common and still does .

Nowadays we have Bertolli mostly and butter is for putting on new potatoes or for making cakes. STork is OK for pastry - combined with Cookeen which makes it very short.

Can you still get Cookeen, Marreidinwhite? Amazing!

We had Gold but occasionally, very occasionally my Mum buy butter and we would almost faint with joy . It got used up very quickly though.

I have Country Life Spreadable now it's much the nicest of the spreadables.

When I was very little, we used to have butter from the butcher - it came in waxed paper with cellophane. It had a diamond pattern sort of embossed on the top of it. Looking back I suppose it must have been hand shaped. Bloody hell that sounds posh doesnt it. I should add that when we moved house, we moved on to Anchor, then Gold. All down hill really....

Oohh yes, akaemma, am partial to a bit of Country Life too.
Don't know why but it seems like proper butter.

Might have to go and make some toast in a minute, am getting bread and butter cravings

we had flora growing up, and if the tub ran out before the shop was due to be done, then we used stork (which was there for baking/back up). My grandparents had Gold, and I loved it!

Now we have real butter - my parents do too

I remember Stork but if you were flush you bought Blue Band. Echo was just for "poorer people" and baking said my mother. And I do remember the sugar strike in the 70's.