A happy memory photo for the more mature MN poster

[MargaretOfAnjou]

Not the real Hovis lane ...,but just as emotive.

Grab your loaves and remember happy carefree 1970's days gone by.

#derbyshire

The 1970s where we had to queue up for bread because it was in short supply?!

As was the electric!

and no stabbings or daily blood shed.

Hayfield?

My mother stockpiled sugar and coffee at one point. What was that about?

TheOrigFV45 not sure,as just visiting ,but we were in Matlock. Beautiful place.

It was a very different time wasn't it?
Lovely photo too.

I was expecting Terry Wogan

buggerthebotox not sure as I was very young then. I would prob hazard a guess it was something to do with the Russians. When i was a child ( in the 70's) ) the Russians were to blame for everything and my parents were convinced the gas supply would be cut by them. So, my mum took the precautionary measure to stock pile Findus cheese and ham pancakes and 3 litres of home made rice pudding.

We had a freezer.. we were posh!

@floraloctopus

There was a frozen foods shop called 'Cordon Bleu' which was apparently really posh. It probably became Iceland.

I remember helping my dm clean out the pantry in the mid-70's when I was 8 or 9 and counting 23 bags of sugar on the top shelf and she used to have 3 of most things we used regularly - 1 being used, 1 replacement and a spare!
We also must have been posh (who knew) because we had a chest freezer the bottom of which was filled with meat. We were a minced beef Findus pancakes family

My mum also made Delia's Piedmont Peppers from a recipe she saw in the London Evening Standard at the time. She bought the olive oil from our local chemist. Everyone thought my mum was crazy...

We ate roast peppers with garlic, tomato and anchovies before anchovies were even invented and by candle light as power cuts!

Mary Berry aint got nothing on my late 1970's mum!

No Bejam became Iceland.

I think the hoarding of coffee and sugar would have been because of the docker strikes of the early 70s. The unions were very powerful and the dockers went on strike and there were shortages. Both sugar and coffee come fro abroad so might have been hoarded.
London had been the main city importing stuff from abroad for Europe. Rotterdam took over and has never looked back.

Also the National Front was rampant

Korvalscat Sugar was rationed.

My mum too stock piled granulated sugar and does to this day in her old age along with butter and she has a thing about needing eggs. I think that generation may have worried sugar world be rationed again. Perhaps they wanted to ensure they always had sugar. My mum also stock piles flours, yeast, raisins, sultanas & candied peel. She can't understand why i put whole cinnamon sticks in my pot pouri bowl.

We can never know that worry.

smash potatoes & quick dried garden fresh peas in a small packet (dm & I use to carry shopping back by bus. vesta dinners (very posh! :) I have seen them in cut price shop recently dh & I short conversation = we dint get any :) ) chicken in a basket (posh pub food) folk music (in pubs- student nurse :) ) making my life long gf (nursing) hot summer 76 working in west end - wearing cheese cloth top & long wrap around skirt (also cheese cloth) with beads to work (bosses were pleased we turned up in the hot summer) getting bread from Selfridges (don't you know! cos it was the only place we could get bread!) - those were the days ( I could go on) met dh :)

Carefree days when we were kids. And didn't have to worry about the things our parents worried about. We made lots of fun out of bread shortages and power cuts. Our parents didn't enjoy it one bit. Not carefree for them.
As did parents in WWII.
It's what parents do. No doubt our own kids will look back on now as relatively carefree happy times.
Sorry to burst the nostalgia bubble.

The 70s. Crap times

Ahhh I know that road - a bugger to get up to school in the snow up there.

Now I do sound old!!

Ive never associated it with the hovis advert but I can see your thinking

and the electric used to go off

There was something about a VESTA curry that has never been captured since.

Anyone else's mum make bright yellow curry in the 70s? With sultanas. And banana in dessicated coconut as a side?

Happy memories of the constant power cuts and the three day week - less so of 98% tax as it was all the "grown ups" ever talked about!

98% tax? Jeez