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

Was the orange liquid welfare orange juice? It was free from the clinic for under 5s. It was thick and sticky and had to be diluted with water. I thought it was delicious.

Oh yes that was alright eddiemairs it was the cod liver oil that was horrible !

Those Vesta dinners looked REVOLTING

Christ the clip for the 70s next week... the kitchen looks like it might appear in a hallucination. My eyes!!

enjoying this.

No liver this week! Thought the kitchen was so pretty! Think i might go and buy some baby blue paint tomorrow.

That corned beef hash was exactly as my mum and Dh's mum used to cook it - just carrots,onions, spuds and corned beef chopped up and simmered with Oxo stock,salt and pepper! Still one of Dh's favourite meals!

I thought corned beef hash was fried rather than boiled.

Liked the sarcasm about "if you spend more time in the kitchen maybe you'll learn how to open the tins".

I think the recipe for corned beef hash varies. When I was a child in the 70s, we used to have it cooked as it was in the programme. We used to have pickled red cabbage on the side.
If you used fresh beef instead, it became 'tater hash.

Mother informs me that she has been in the Tescos that was featured. It's at Goodwood.

That brought back some memories. Those vesta chow meins

mum still not happy

I missed the first one of the 50s.

What was it about eating separately that was mentioned in the 60s programme?

mum ate with the children when they came home from school, so dad ate on his own, in the dining room in the evening.

diddl they depicted the 50s family as mum and kids eating earlier and dad, home from work, eating in solitary splendour in the 'dining' room. With no tablecloth, as I remember?

Who was it who said that she couldn't mess up a vesta curry? Got that wrong,di'nt you?

Did you clock the plate of French Fancies? French fancies and tunnocks tea cakes still going strong round here. Love the yellow ones. My neighbours had a plate of them when I went round, once.

God, she's miserable, isn't she? Just a normal miserable face. Shame cos when she smiles she looks good. Pity that she doesn't smile very much.wonder why they volunteered, money must be good... And I wish she wouldn't stoop so much. I'm getting increasingly more annoyed with her, can you tell?

How strange!

I would have thought that that was more a thing if the father had a long commute.

When did school lunches come in?

Not the 50s, but when we were at primary school & mum at not out at work, dad worked close & we all met at home for a cooked lunch.

When mum went back to work, we had school lunches & mum & dad had a cooked meal in the works canteen so evening meal was a light meal iyswim.

Cooked meals in the evening didn't happen for us until I was well into 2ndry school & mum changed jobs & had to take sandwiches!

I still prefer a cooked meal at lunch!

i think she stoops because she is tall - and yes she is much much prettier when she smiles, but most of the time she looks like it is a painful process. the teen daughters were a lot more forthcoming this week

perhaps the teens had to be more forthcoming because mum is so unhappy?

I loved the beehive though - it really suited her!

i suspect the dad volunteered as a punishment to the mum, since in real life he does the cooking, pheraps he is tryign to show her life aint so bad,
I jest of course.

i was born in 1965 and have no memory of the 60s, can't wait til next week, 1970s

Now I 'm old enough to really remember the 60s Yes we had school dinners (in secondary anyway). They were vile (though the family's meals were worse !!!!) the chocolate pudding and custard were okay I remember the rice pudding with jam that became pink, when we all mixed it up.

Oh how horrible were those Vesta meals. Our mum was health conscious so we didn't have those Yes the mum didn't seem to be happy whatever, even with a fridge she made a mess of everything!!! That tinned peas in jelly thing YEUCH!!!!

My first bf took me to the first 'chinese' in our town, it was fabulous !!

I remember Vesta meals.

i think we probably had one between us as a "starter" a couple of times.

I remember liking the noodle things that were flat & you put then in the chip pan 7 the puffed up!

Yes I liked them too when we had them in a chinese restaurant and never again for some reason!