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Back in time for dinner

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hideandseekpig · 15/03/2015 11:10

Is anyone going to watch this? I'm really torn because the presenter is Giles Coren who I don't like much but the idea is interesting. They are basically getting a family to eat from a different decade each week from 1950s to now

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Trills · 01/04/2015 22:29

I thought of it as a Welsh thing.

KenDoddsDadsDog · 01/04/2015 22:49

Very normal in the NE.

Bunbaker · 02/04/2015 07:43

IIRC Angel Delight was around by the end of the 1960s. I used to love it. We lived in a pretty middle class household (on my dad's very basic WC salary) and my mum had a Cordon Bleu diploma and we never ate hummus. The first time I tried it was because my boyfriend's Greek next door neighbour sent a pot around for us to try. That would have been around 1976/77.

I agree about the mum's posture. She stands like an old lady. I am surprised at her lack of cooking skills. She must be about my age - mid 50s, and would have had proper home economics lessons at school. Is it put on for the TV?

HoraceCope · 02/04/2015 07:47

i just realised last night how to pronounce the title, I was getting it wrong,
it is
back in time, for dinner.

and as I said before she probably stoops because she is tall, in fact I think she is taller than her husband.

bigTillyMint · 02/04/2015 08:36

Finally caught up on the 70's - all very familiar from my childhood, but yes, where were the Crispy Pancakes, Angel Delight and Birds Trifle? DM embraced lots of convenience food like Rise 'n Shine, and boil-in-the-bag meals, but thankfully not tinned mince.

poisonedbypen we all ate pot noodles in our 6thform common room too, but 81-83Wink

We had all sorts of calor-gas gadgets in the power cuts - I remember a "cooker", light and heater. Plus we had a coal fire in our back room with a boiler behind, so we were OK for heat and water.

Rochelle is taller than her DH. The girls are very pretty and haven't developed their mothers unfortunately miserable face.

ProfYaffle · 02/04/2015 08:43

iklboo - not much goat milking on the council estates of Warrington either!

eddiemairswife · 02/04/2015 10:27

I'm wondering if they eat the particular decade's food for the whole week, or just the couple of meals they have for the cameras.

HappydaysArehere · 02/04/2015 10:45

Juliadream, you are right. We were buying crisps in the fifties. They were Smiths with a separate salt. You could also buy broken crisps which were like the ones you find at the bottom of the bag. They cost a penny so were popular with us kids. We could collect empty lemonade bottles, get the money back from the shop and stock up on cheap,crisps. Remember sweets were on ration so crisps were especially welcome.

ppeatfruit · 02/04/2015 14:17

OMG *Jacana I remember those raffia donkeys!!!! Plus the wine in raffia; the empties were made into candle holders Grin In every Italian restaurant you went into.

Yes the Smiths crisps with the little bags of salt were the best I reckon. At least they tasted REAL !!

LegsOfSteel · 02/04/2015 16:15

The mother is really inept with tin openers. And they all seem to chop vegetables with a bread knife.
Looking forward to the 80s.

ppeatfruit · 02/04/2015 16:19

Sorry Horace Grin but The mother is really inept STOP Grin

HoraceCope · 02/04/2015 16:58
Grin
bigTillyMint · 02/04/2015 17:02

ppeatfruitGrin

And I remember the raffia donkeys and wine in raffia and wine-bottle candlesticks too!

ilovesooty · 02/04/2015 17:32

In the 70s I was allowed to choose my own birthday meal. Because we didn't eat much convenience food normally it was tinned mince, tinned butter beans and Smash. It's still my favourite comfort food.

YoungBritishPissArtist · 02/04/2015 20:08

The posters saying that Rochelle should smile more?! Hmm Women being told to smile winds me up Angry those attitudes belong in the 70s.

As for her not being able to cook, it's been stated several times that irl, Brandon does all the cooking.

The tin opener - I struggle with them as I'm very left-handed and unco-ordinated. Some people just aren't very dexterous!

The programme has no doubt been edited to exploit those last two points.

iklboo · 02/04/2015 21:15

That's what I think - that Rochelle is being very badly edited to make her look useless, miserable & a bit thick.

ppeatfruit · 03/04/2015 09:26

I'm not so sure it's been deliberately edited, I know it's possible, but she's just not used to the kitchen and being thrown back to the relatively primitive times must have been a shock for her Grin. I feel a bit sorry for her really Grin.

Maybe she agreed to do the programme without thinking it through enough.

outtolunchagain · 03/04/2015 09:48

I think it's making a point , it would have been virtually unheard of for a man in the 1950s , 60s or 70s to be doing all the cooking for a family.The whole set up was based around the women doing the cooking whether she could or not , it's a sea change In attitudes over the last 20 years .

I certainly had a few friends growing up whose mothers were appalling cooks , one used to regularly serve up sausages which were black on the outside and raw inside along with smash and tinned peas

Southeastdweller · 03/04/2015 10:29

I agree it's probably not editing and that she's just not used to the kitchen, which is maybe one reason why the family were choses in the first place - it makes for good TV and online chatter.

bigTillyMint · 03/04/2015 10:54

Yes, I agree it's not just editing - when you see her cooking it's obvious how clueless she isGrin
Keeps me thinking of Wendy Craig in Butterflies!

KenDoddsDadsDog · 03/04/2015 11:06

Yes , very Wendy Craig !

poisonedbypen · 04/04/2015 09:46

Why don't that have anything other than a bread knife?

ProfYaffle · 04/04/2015 10:13

I know, that annoys me every time.

CornChips · 04/04/2015 11:45

I only caught the latest episode but really enjoyed it...... it also gave me a whole new appreciation for my Dparents as I grew up in the 70s, and they both cooked from scratch...... I never came across Smash at all! I really like the family too.... they just seem genuine and nice.

notsogoldenoldie · 04/04/2015 11:46

Yes, that knife. Was she using it to cut up chips? I agree about women not being great cooks. Some were, some were awful. My mother could cook a roast, but that's it. Our Shepherd's Pie was some tinned mince with some Smash slung on top, of which she was very proud. It was actually quite tasty. We're all food snobs now though, and think we know better.

I agree about Rochelle. She MUST have had some cooking education in school. No one is that clueless. I must admit I find her really irritating, and it's putting me off the programme.