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 have milk delivered, and it's not homogenised so I still have top of milk. To the person who enquired about the availability of vegetables for city dwellers there were greengrocers. And when I moved here(West Mids) some years ago I was shocked at the lack of variety in fruit and veg compared with shops of my London childhood. Incidentally, potatoes were rationed briefly from Autumn 1947 to April 1948.

Y'know, I find these reminiscences more interesting than that b. Programme.

But, not wanting to be too harsh on the housewife lady, seeing her in her 50s gear with the wide buckled belt, I really have real life envy of her waist. My 'waist' got spelled differently quite a while back

We had a sort of metal crate with a handle to hold up to 6 milk bottles with a little clock indicator to point to how many we wanted the milkman to leave. The milkman had young helpers who jumped on and off the back to deliver. We always seemed to be collecting the silver tops for Blue Peter

During the summer holiday when I was 5 my mother let me help the milkman. I would collect the empty bottles and take them to the (horse-drawn) milk float while the milkman delivered the full bottles. When we got to the bottom of the hill I would go back home The horse had a nosebag, And sometimes I would feed him a piece of carrot. At the end of the week the milkman gave me my 'wages' - 2(old) pennies, sometimes an egg and on one occasion a small packet of precious, rationed butter. Looking back my mother must have been mad - letting her small daughter go off with a(relative) stranger to carry glass bottles up and down steps.

eddiemairs It was a different world then, my dsis and I used to walk to school and back , on our own from age of 5, there were no cars in our long road !!

Oh I liked those tiny Hovis loaves bigTillymint and the bakers's van always smelt soo amazing with the split cream buns!!

I can remember our co-op delivering milk in a horse drawn cart. My dad used to say that you could tell that a lady down the road was entertaining the milkman cos the grass verge outside her house was grazed really, but really, short

Yes the woman is surprisingly undomesticated, she did mention her dh does the cooking, maybe her own mum never cooked either (it's possible of course). If she was more imaginative she wouldn't stick to the food diaries though, probably thats why she was chosen

I guess so. I think program makers don't think we would be interested in watching someone getting on fine and not ballsing it up all the time.

Yes Pipbin Surprisingly there isn't a competition in the programme; there seem to be so many atm.

That's why I like the woman who does all the Victorian Farm programs.
She loves it all, knows her stuff, never complains and just gets on with it.

I do feel for the woman in this family. It's like they've set her up to fail.

Yes i like those programmes a lot, by golly she's had to eat some weird stuff!

Ruth someone isn't it? She does small snippets for the One Show too.

Ruth something, thats that one. Sometimes she brings her daughter along too.

Yes I like her and respect her because she likes herself doesn't think that being older warrants a load of botox and or plastic surgery

and the man who plays Ruth's husband is a bit of alright

Seems life is much easier now with a fridge and 'named' tinned goods

Agree wouldnt be so much fun doing or watching if the mum was a good cook

The the pea jelly???? Looked rank

Spag Bol nice - well no one can fuck that up

Felt sorry for the dog :(

Oh I've had some shit spag. bols in my time Blondeshave If the sauce is not cooked for a long and slow time with plenty of onions and garlic, not out of a bottle, it can be terrible. I'm fussy though!

I was grumbling on and on about the plates and tea pot they were using as it wasn't designed until 1975. DS told me to stop moaning because 'it doesn't matter'. I have the gravy boat (Johnson Brothers 'Engadine')

They are hit and miss with clothes as well

Gatekeeper The kitchen was quite tasteful for the 60s I remember there being a lot of orange paint being used then!

Sorry too many 'beings'

Really ppeatfruit thought it was impossible to bodge spag Bol

Blue cupboards looked a bit like my mums kitchen from what I vaguely rem as a child - they didn't chnage IT till I was about 10

Mummy and daddy blondes also didn't have a fridge in the early 60's. They had just brought a house and couidnt afford one - so kept good outside in a white box

Gatekeeper, I was thinking that it was a 70's design - I think either we had it or friends or family did. The tray was definitely 70's as DM had one. It is a bit poor given that they should have researchers and access to resources and should be able to get the right props for the period.

I remember being heavily influenced by a film of the 60s in which the 'kids' painted EVERYTHING white ! I still do it!!

they would have had that cast iron fireplace out in the fifties as well and replaced with a nice tiled jobbie

We had one just like that in my childhood house which was a "between the wars" build!

I was born in 1960. Outer house, by the mid-end of the 60s was full of habitat furniture, G-Plan, Tintawn carpet, paper light shades, White Walls with dark green ceilings and we had duvets, aka continental quilts. We never ate Vesta type food, we went out to a Chinese restaurant regularly. DH is 2 years older than me, he never had "foreign" food until many years later, ate Vesta and Smash and lived in a home much more like the one in the programme. Both authentic but different