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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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Jacana · 12/04/2015 13:29

Oh! I'd forgotten the burnt goats cheese tart, and I'm not too sure if I want to be reminded of it, imagine the smell Shock sick on a plate Shock.
Need a restorative Sunday glass of Wine now, to cancel the memory still, it's a good excuse. Cheers! pp

ppeatfruit · 12/04/2015 15:12

Oh I like goats cheese (I should we live near the area that makes it!) If you get the fresh ones they're lovely!

I know that wine bars were around in the 70s because dh and his best men 'had a drink' in one in Kensington before we got married. Maybe not as many as in the 80s though. Cheers Jac Grin I had forgotten the start of packed lunches in schools for dcs and M&S sandwiches though.

derxa · 12/04/2015 15:59

Can't wait for the next episode!!!

Jacana · 12/04/2015 16:27

Yeah pp and derxa it 's acquired a certain gruesome fascinationShock

I'm looking forward to the wallpaper and ornaments on the mantelpiece, too Wink

Pipbin · 12/04/2015 20:02

I was thinking about why they chose that family and how hard it must be to find the right ones.
I guess they had to find a family with children the right ages, teenaged and primary age, children that were able to talk to the camera without being too shy, in a house that dated before the 50s, that they were happy to have mucked about with, that worked in jobs where they can take 6 weeks off, in London.
And they had to have applied to be on it!

Trills · 12/04/2015 21:23

That's an interesting thing to think aboout Pipbin

Ragwort · 12/04/2015 21:27

I am so enjoying this series, loved the 70s and 80s episodes, I can remember the wine bar 'culture' so clearly, it was such a popular thing to do in my 20s - although we didn't drink champagne. Grin

Jacana · 12/04/2015 21:30

Yeah, good thinking pipbinStar gold star for logic and you can go to the top of the classGrin

ppeatfruit · 13/04/2015 10:51

Yes pipbin and they are an interesting family, the little boy said something fascinating about how he really appreciated sweets in the '50s' because there were so few!

The thing about the diets was sooo true; dm was always on some diet or other which no doubt affected me. I kept a food diary for a while then (and before). Blush

DeeWe · 13/04/2015 13:51

Interesting thought Pipbin but why would they need to have a family with primary and secondary age children? I'd have thought they would pick the family and run with what they've got.
The dad hasn't taken that much time off work, he's been going to work. His work is probably flexible to a certain extend, which is probably helpful, but I'd imagine that a lot of employers would have some sympathy to do that anyway, as long as he didn't haev a long commute

Certainly in previous series of similar go back in time things they've had 100s of applications, so I can't imagine this was very different.

And we're not asking for much: just someone who does cooking so the show is about the different eras of cooking rather than how they've mucked up again through lack of knowledge.

Having someone who does complain so much would be a bonus though. Couldn't believe it when they had the microwave meals and were all sitting round in the kitchen chatting and she's still complaining after no work and they were still all eating together, just different things, which is hardly the end of the world.

ppeatfruit · 13/04/2015 17:50

Rochelle is never satisfied, like the mum in the song by Prince. She even thought that the 50s were the 'best times' after they'd finished though Grin.

Blondeshavemorefun · 13/04/2015 17:51

Good point pip / tho the dad still went off to 'work' in first episode leavin g poor R by herself / so it's only R/mum who needed to be able to take few weeks off work - hence teachers and done summer hols

It's good to have teenage and primary school kids in the family

I would have no problem with my house being remodelled and walls added /taken away etc - as long as all put back at end and prob got to have a totally decorated house

Shame one thing they don't show is bedrooms and bathroom - ie in first programme a bath in a tub in front of fire - and no showers etc

And what furniture bedrooms have - prob a bed lol

We had a soda stream and I loved it !!!! So excited when we got one and would make coke and cream soda

R is like Kat in eastenders. Always has a sulky look on face /neither Everton happy :(

R is a totally useless cook. Surely she could do the basic stuff - tho as I said before didn't think it was possible to fuck up spag Bol -but seems from
Replies it is Grin

Microwave chicken???? Tho love marmite so may be yummy and might try that

We did have vienetta - 3 lines each - and loved crispy pancakes - chicken - cheese and bacon and think minced beef. All nice

And the sofa. My parents had one all floral like theirs :)

Pipbin · 13/04/2015 18:18

Interesting thought Pipbin but why would they need to have a family with primary and secondary age children?

To get the views of a teenage and a pre teen child. They had the bit of the girls moving into a bedsit and the boy enjoying the life of a younger child in the era.
And I think that they would need to be off work. Making TV programs involves an awful lot of re filming and sitting about.
When I was about 8 I was on a short documentary style film. Less than 5 minutes long. I had two days off school to film it. The bit that I was in was only 2 minutes of the entire thing.

Clutterbugsmum · 13/04/2015 18:59

I thought both were teachers/academia so they would have 6 weeks in the summer.

Jacana · 13/04/2015 19:28

I missed the girls moving into a bedsit epi, begs the question tho, why the chuff did they come back?Grin

Really, it was a pity it was all filmed during the summer. Mum told me winters were grim, 50s. No ch, teeny little electric 1 or 2 bar fire, mostly coal fires and no heat coming into the room after washday cos the clothes horse was in front of the fireShock no clean air act, and smogs....however would R.have coped? Hmm

Trills · 13/04/2015 20:22

The older girl went into a bedsit for one meal to have a play at being an "independent" 60s teenager.

eddiemairswife · 13/04/2015 22:51

1950s winters - build up the fire, draw up the armchairs and settee to make a cosy semi-circle, put the mat against the door to prevent draughts. It was a massive effort to go upstairs to have a wee in the freezing lavatory.

Blondeshavemorefun · 14/04/2015 00:23

Hence why I said would have been good to see their upstairs /bathroom in each year - or no bathroom and weeing in outside loo and bathing in a tub in the living room

ppeatfruit · 14/04/2015 08:10

I remember hating to go to bed out of the room with the fire and we also had horrible paraffin heaters that smelt disgusting and did'nt give out much warmth.

But we were young, our parents must have disliked it ,but that was life then, you made the best of it, unless you had servants!!

To be fair Blondeshave the programme is about 'dinner' Grin

Blondeshavemorefun · 14/04/2015 09:03

True about dinner - tho their living room was taken back in time with no TV etc

Looking forward to tonight's

And pop tarts ????

ppeatfruit · 14/04/2015 09:21

Aah but you can have dinner in the living room in front o'telly can't you? Grin

Oh poptarts the most disgusting, dangerous and unhealthy food (and calling them food is being kind to them) to be invented IMHO Grin

RedButtonhole · 14/04/2015 10:23

I've only just "got" the pun in the show's title.

Blush
DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen · 14/04/2015 18:52

I've been really enjoying the series, don't really understand the comments about the mum, plenty of people find it hard to cook or don't cook at all. At the start of the programme they said that the Dad usually did most of the cooking. They seem like a lovely family. When Brandon said the food was 'bland' I honestly thought he was going to end up with it on his headGrin 'Bland' has become a bit of a catchphrase in this house,Dh and I cracked up watching that episodeGrin

Looking forward to tonight's episodeSmile

DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen · 14/04/2015 19:11

Red- me too Blush

Hulababy · 14/04/2015 19:22

I have really enjoyed it too and it is one of the few programmes that 13y DD and DH will also watch too.

I also reckon if it was the dad showing so little cooking skills then he'd be getting far less grief about it!