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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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eddiemairswife · 19/03/2015 19:25

It has been said earlier that she could have warmed up the cold liver and veg. She could also have only cooked enough for her husband at lunchtime, and then cooked for the rest of her family in the evening.

FatCunt · 19/03/2015 19:45

I'd've said "fuck you 1950s", and made a liver and cabbage stirfry.

5Foot5 · 19/03/2015 22:21

She could also have only cooked enough for her husband at lunchtime, and then cooked for the rest of her family in the evening.

I think she was worried about it going off because she had no fridge. We don't know what time of year this was filmed; if it was the middle of summer I can understand her concern.

NorahBone · 19/03/2015 23:09

Given that the mum's a teacher I think it was probably filmed during the summer holidays. And as the dad is a lecturer he was probably pretending to go to work every day
I love programmes like this, but they always have to be taken with a pinch of salt- there tends to be a lot of sweeping generalisations, although I like that it's based on real food diaries.
A pinch of salt might have improved some of the meals come to think of it...

Trills · 20/03/2015 08:20

I loved the supersizer shows.

HoraceCope · 20/03/2015 08:21

The supersizer shows were brilliant werent they

Gatekeeper · 20/03/2015 08:53

supersizer shows fabulous; I love Sue AND Giles. He is a very enthusiastic eater and i imagine him being a right dirty beast

Jacana · 20/03/2015 09:26

Well, whichever way you slice the bloody liver, she really was clueless, I reckon. Her husand wasn't the brightest spark, either. Between them they couldn't work out the mechanics of the opener. A marble shelf was put in the larder specifically to keep stuff cool. No visit from the Bisto kid or using Oxo cubes for the gravy? My 83yr old neighbour talked about having a twist of paper with a cocoa powder + sugar mix in it for a treat and buying something she called 'fishes' - pear drops shaped like a fish? - one for her Friday night treat after the weekly bath, hair wash, and going to bed with her wet hair bound with strips of old sheet to make ringlets. Oh and the three children, her and her two bros. being packed off to Sunday School; in her road it was the traditional time for mums and dads to have a bit of that

Gatekeeper · 20/03/2015 13:38

I thought they we all a bit gormless really; I was sitting tutting like an old dear at the tin opener shenanigans and shouting instructions at the telly with some swear words for good measure

Blondeshavemorefun · 20/03/2015 15:02

to be fair i prob wouldnt be able to use that tin opener either

madreloco · 20/03/2015 15:06

They would have been better off with someone who had the first clue about cooking. The programme made out that all the food was awful, but really the woman just couldn't cook to save her life!

Samcro · 20/03/2015 15:07

i was surprised how little the daughters did

eddiemairswife · 20/03/2015 15:15

She'll probably do better in the 60s. You can't go far wrong with a Vesta chicken curry.

Theas18 · 20/03/2015 21:23

Watching this with a tear in my eye chatting to mums ashes (it's ok I'm not going mad, she's only very recently died). I'd so like to have her take on this. She wasn't a stay at home housewife - she taught full time through her working career.

Mum and dad married in dec 1950. This would be their life as newly weds, and actually it was probably more primitive as they lived in poorly maintained national trust tied cottages then ( national trust pretty much in its infancy ).

Mum I absolutely salute you.

Lady on tv - Argh - you can't even use the tin opener? I used one line that 2 weeks ago as it was all I could find in mum and dads house - found a better one know, but it did the job!

So much in mum and dads house is still 1960s - they were terrible hoarders - I don't think I've found anything actually from 1950 in the kitchen apart from odd crockery and probably some cutlery , though actually there is a sharpened table knife with a broken handle known as " grandmas knife" ( my grandma) that is probably that old - im keeping it.

Waah :(

Jacana · 20/03/2015 22:25

Condolences Theas. I had the job of clearing mum and dad's house, dismantling a lifetime together mixed with my own childhood memories was saddening. Did you not come across any squat glass trifle cup type things? They were very much of the time and I, too, have a bone handled carving knife and pronged fork from the same period, along with the sharpening tool.

Pity that it's the same family doing the years, I think she looks really miserable but I think eddiemairswife comment is spot on - and v. funny

Blondeshavemorefun · 21/03/2015 10:53

As she doesn't generally cook makes you wonder if she will be able to cope in the 60/70/80/90's

Trills · 21/03/2015 10:55

I want to have a go with that tin opener now.

I think I'd need to hold it in my hands t know if I would be ass incompetent as her.

Did you hear the older daughter say something like "I can't use a normal tin opener" when called in to help, or was I imagining it?

Gatekeeper · 21/03/2015 13:01

no, you didn't imagine it! Mind you - my daughter is just as bad...clever but not much common sense at times

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hideandseekpig · 21/03/2015 15:37

I've finally watched this! I enjoyed it mostly but it started whizzing through the years towards the end!

I loved the older ladies coming round and looking round the kitchen and watching the coronation.

I wonder if in 50 years time we'll have any food diaries to look back on? They mentioned this data was collected from the 50s up to 2000 I think they said - so are we just not interested in keeping a record anymore?

It's very interesting I'm looking forward to next week

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HollyJollyDillydolly · 21/03/2015 16:39

I thought the bloke from this was the man who plays Gary from Miranda. What a numpty!

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hideandseekpig · 21/03/2015 21:19

They look very similar!

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NorahBone · 21/03/2015 23:08

Hideandseekpig they'll have hundreds of tedious blogs to refer to
Got to admit I've broken almost every tin opener I've ever owned, some with the first use. I've had many a tin turn out like those pilchards.

ppeatfruit · 22/03/2015 09:46

I've got a book about fashion and Dior's New Look (which was a reaction to the rationing and WW2) and was around from 1948ish onwards into the 50s, obviously it would 've been worn by the richer women but it used stiff hooped petticoats.

I remember desperately wanting a hooped petticoat when I was 5 or 6 later on in the 50s. I also remember having a strange orange syrup stuff that the L.O.s had then. I know I HATED liver!!!

notsogoldenoldie · 22/03/2015 19:55

ppeat was the liquid minadex? I had that as a kid, as a kind of supplement.

What a gormless bunch!

ppeatfruit · 23/03/2015 10:26

I can't remember the name, DM would probably, it was in glass bottles that looked like medicine bottles.

notsogolden Do you also remember the malted cod liver oil it was disgusting even the malt couldn't disguise the fishy taste!

Maybe the family were hampered by the food diaries which were probably made up because dh says his family had the right contacts and never ate powdered egg!

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