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 always thought that insects are like land shrimps or whatever so more 'seafood' than meat, no I don't fancy them but I do eat snails with plenty of garlic and olive oil .

Insect definitely not kosher or vegetarian.

I really enjoyed it, shame it's emded but there a new foodie programme starting- can't for life of me remember the advert at the moment.

I think insects are not meat in the sense that you don't breed them, feed them or produce waste. Pound per pound they give more than they take. I could probable eat them whizzed up and not looking so insect like I kept expecting them to move.

Street hawkers were selling fried cockroaches, crickets etc. in Thailand. I tried a cricket, didn't fancy a cockroach tho. T'was crunchy, but don't recall an actual taste. The thought of eating a whizzed up mess is even less appealing somehow

Seeing the introduction of new gadgets, etc. was interesting, but the annoyance factor of the programme over ruled my enjoyment of it.i fleetingly wondered in what way the lettuce Rochelle ate in the 90s(?) which she raved about, was superior to those which she 'grew' in the 50s or in the later decade when they again had an allotment...

Jacana I think that it wasn't their own allotment, maybe it was the editing to show the children enjoying the fresh food and Rochelle was included because she was there. Or maybe she really hadn't had that variety before.

I thought that it was fun, the attitude to wine drinking was interesting because it's true we used to think wine was good for us, which only good red wine in smallish amounts is suggested as being good now.

The line of Rochelles about it being the best lettuce didn't come across to me as genuine. Either she'd been told to say that or it was the sort of thing you say when trying to please the owner of the lettuces. A bit like admiring someone's dog when you think all dogs are vile little animals.

I bet she complained about it off camera.

deewee

I've enthused in exactly the same way about home grown carrots-and was then told sharpish to get a life from teen ds

Loved this programme, but my god I've never seen a family so clueless with knives! Bread knives for chopping carrots, for goodness' sake!

Thank God it's over. Never were so many vegetables butchered in the cause of a TV programme.

I think they had awful old fashioned blunt knives. They irritated me too.

I also got annoyed whenever they ate standing up. Makes me twitchy. Especially the bit where they were making that protein shake in the blender, all standing around the kitchen table, long hair dangling in the way.. aaargh!

I loved the series though, thought it was really interesting and I thought Brandon and Rochelle were funny.

Old fashioned knives weren't necessarily blunt. I've got my grandparents carving knife and fork. Got the sharpening whetstone they kept in the drawer with the knives, too.

Jacana I think it's just my memory of crap knives and parents who had no clue how to sharpen them! My mum still hacks away at tomatoes with a knife that is as sharp as a spoon!

For the family, your words had no clue resonate with me

Jacana-I have my grand parents' knives too-really sharp!

RudeBarbara That annoyed me too and no one sat down to prepare any meals, it's much nicer to sit down with a good chopping board (and sharp knife) and chop veg. finely, they cook quicker that way.

But why anyone would think that an effing whey\protein shake could substitute for decently cooked fresh food beats me .

Thank God we'll never have to see them again, Jacana.

I can't imagine sitting down to prepare meals, it seems wrong in my head

I'm surprised they didn't mention low carbing and 5:2, clean eating etc, or did they and I missed it?

Sometimes I sit when I'm chopping (and feeling lazy), and sometimes I stand. But they way they were all standing around the blender, slopping cupfuls of powder everywhere... aaaaargh.

I have a real issue with people eating standing up though, DH told me I seem to have a problem as I was shouting at Alex Polizzi's latest foodie show when they all stood up to taste the chef's dishes. SIT. DOWN FFS!

Yeah, derxa high fives

Alex polizzi's prog...was thinking the same,...just..why?

I'm with you Rude. DH does it with breakfast sometimes. He'll pour the cereal in the kitchen and have a mouthful before he gets to the table. It makes me twitch.

Damediazapam No they didn't mention any later diets apart from in the 80s, the Fplan and grapefruit diets. Which does seem odd considering how there were loads more in the 90s and naughties too.

Pipbin Oh don't start me on dh eating standing up, sometimes he doesn't get to the table at all!

Just watched the last episode.
"I loved every minute" hahahahahaha

Pity she couldn't have loved it while she did it, rather than in retrospect. She's probably complaining about life in 2015 now.