Back in time for dinner

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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

I don't think vienneta was cheap hence why it wasn't usually common place.

Dh's mum went on a microwave cooking course :)

Does anyone know which decade they're going up to?

There's two more part's left - next week is the 90's so maybe the last one is 2000 - now.

The National food survey ended in 2000, so I'm guessing only one more in the current format, then something different.

I don't think the price of Vienetta has changed much, since it was launched.

But I seasoned mine before cooking and it was great. Also a real lifesaver when I didn't get home until 8.30pm and could attack eat it at 9.00.

My cookbook which came with it gave a recipe for a sponge cake, more like a school sponge pudding, as I recall. I didn't really like school sponge pudding, but bravely ate it. With lots of cream.

That year in London at 22,with my micro, my pop pop percolator and my wine boxes was a golden time

I was born in 85 and even well into the early 90s Vienetta was a special thing. Only got brought out after Sunday dinner at my Nans!

Have just looked up the National Food Survey, because I have never heard of it before this programme. I've just skimmed through for now, but will probably go back for another look because it's fascinating how the sorts of food we eat has changed.

I was surprised to see that egg consumption has more than halved since the 1960s from over 4 eggs per person per week to less than two. Either number seems very low to me as I probably eat nearly a dozen eggs per week (2 for breakfast on most days).

I've also wondered for a while how consumption of crisps has increased over the decades, usually because I find the aisles and aisles of crisps in big supermarkets a bit shocking. All I could find was that consumption of processed potato products, which includes things like oven and takeaway chips, trippled between 1975 and 2000, although fresh potato consumption has nearly halved. But our consumption of 'miscellaneous' which seems to cover things like mineral water and icecream has gone up tenfold.

Fascinating stuff - a report on the food survey can be found <a class="break-all" href="http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130103014432/www.defra.gov.uk/statistics/files/defra-stats-foodfarm-food-familyfood-nfs-2000.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here.

Eggs were officially bad for you in the 80s. Full of cholesterol, they were and cholesterol in food was the enemy. That's how the abomination of egg white omelettes came to be. The yolk has all the flavour and nutrients, ffs!

Hmm, from the go to work on an egg campaign, the edwina currie debacle, then cholesterol scare, I heard on r4 yesterday that they are, again, a Good Thing to eat.

Meanwhile, as the poster upthread, I've been steadily munching my way through a goodly number a week. And when I can get duck eggs I'm in absolute heaven

Thank you for the link to the National Food survey, btw. I'd not heard of this and I'll have fun browsing it, too.

Oh I'm going to watch the repeat tomorrow because the recording system "FAILED" on our telly was it good jacana.?

There's a true story that I heard about the eggs debacle . My friend owns a B&B here in Fr. and she was on a course about hygiene, the prof. told them that salmonella was on the SHELLS of the eggs!!!!! Of course!!! That Currie woman was a total effing lune and the whole industry nearly collapsed due to her nonsense.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25154046
Here's a link which describes salmonella risks in different foods. That woman Currie lost a lot of people a lot of money.

Am I alone on finding it depressing that the 90s is now history?

Where were the crispy pancakes and the potato waffles?

I wonder if she will have to make a Masterchef meal for the 90s!

KenDodd! Was Masterchef on in the 90's?

Master chef was on in the 90s, but very different and better than now.
It was presented by Lloyd Grosman but I think the Vic and Bob version was better.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=towd9vZWDJg

Oh, yes, I remember now! Lloyd Grosman

Original Masterchef
m.youtube.com/watch?v=C0OgwReDo-E

Three comments:

• I am one of three sisters who were teenagers in the 70s and, contrary to what a previous poster said, we did NOTHING in the kitchen or around the house and I don't remember any of my (girl)friends being any different
• Sodastram was a 70s thing although I have a modern one now
• Vienetta just NO, we thought it was very naff

Agree, where's the crispy pancakes and potato waffles? And Dream Topping and Evaporated Milk (not that we ate any of those, just remember them)

pp the programme was so rivetting I remember very little of it now
Oh yes, there was the golden moment when they all ate different microwave meals and Rochelle mournfully (how else?) lamented the days when they all ate together as a family. Now, I would have thought this was a bonus, at last they were getting something halfway edible?
Did you know there's a parallel thread in Chat about this programme, words like "engaging and charming" and "capable" have been usedStrange how we seem the same things and come to completely different conclusions

Davros I think we mentioned evap.milk upthread?

I loved Findus crispy pancakes, particularly the cheese and the curry ones, they should have had a mention.

When will the wok and stir fries get a mention, anyone know? I was out of the country, living in Singapore for a while, so brought mine back from there so I seem to have had mine forever.

Pipbin I love the Vic and Bob version
When Ken Hom was cooking for them in his wok I said to DH that woks were very 1990s to me !

Jacana But to be fair the dcs seem charming and capable. I'm watching the repeat at your time 12am so will be back!

I meant to say that I agree with Davros about the food, but we were older teenagers in the early 70s and were ONLY paid our pocket money if we did our share of housework and cooking .

We were spoilt lazy sods! Mind you, we had to travel over an hour each way to school and then had hours of homework. No time to learn to cook or clean. Of course I did all that homework and didnt mess around and have a laugh travelling to and from school, heh heh

*pp, yes the children are lovely, and it was great to see The fun and laughter they had with the (what were they?) pogo sticks perhaps. Without the children the programme would be pretty dire. The programme should be fun and for me it's not.

OMG chicken covered in marmite !! Soooo funny that cooking everything in the microwave because oddly, DM STILL does that !! We have one but don't actually cook in it.

I felt sorry for the family because it is so obvious that poor Rochelle can't cook to save her life! That burnt goats cheese tart for the dinner party, and her asking why no one had said how delicious the tart was!! I love this programme!