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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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diddl · 31/03/2015 20:57

We had a tray with the same design as the chopping board.

I think that dad may still have it!

i didn't like Pot Noodle that much, but I think i remember finding Pot Rice OK!

marssparklesdownonme · 31/03/2015 21:03

My parents had the dinner service that they used at breakfast time . we also had and still have a Homepride Fred flour sifter .

Clawdy · 31/03/2015 21:07

Everybody wanted the Fred flour sifter! Smile

Hulababy · 31/03/2015 21:17

I had the flour sifter and the matching salt and pepper pots. DH grandparents have them to is. They must have got lost when we moved.

mrsschatzepage · 31/03/2015 21:17

There was a lot of brown and orange around in the seventies. I was born in 1972 and I remember we had some curtains with big orange flowers on them in the living room . I remember power cuts as well in the late seventies.

Hulababy · 31/03/2015 21:20

To be fair I lived through the 70s but have never deep fried chips and it's been an awful long time since I used a tin opener like that.

My mum didn't work in the 70s. But I remember my dad on 3 day weeks.

We didn't have all the frozen veg they had like that - I remember mum going shopping most days locally instead. And we had more meat and two veg type meals. Lots of boiled white potatoes - so bland.

Recognised a lot more this week.

iwantgin · 31/03/2015 21:22

I am late to this series. Just seen the 1970s show. I grew up in the 70s and remember our meals being particularly uninspired. Sorry mum. Grin

I totally agree with the part about being able to play out doors though. Bouncing around on Spacehoppers and riding Choppers. Definitely a great decade to be a child.

Can't believe no one knew how to use a chip pan . Not that we have one, but I remember ours back then. Chips egg and gammon for tea.

yumm.

KenDoddsDadsDog · 31/03/2015 21:23

The delis food looked vile . My mam was a far better cook than that.

KenDoddsDadsDog · 31/03/2015 21:23

*Delia

outtolunchagain · 31/03/2015 21:27

I was 5 in 1970 and 15 at the end of the decade so thus really ss my childhood , we even had the pickled onion jar with a face , we had the matching beetroot one too and a celery jug with a faceSmile

The cans thing is weird , she must just have a mental block. We were a Bejam family , my Dad was very into the freezer and if it could come frozen we had it !Didn't have smash though , or that vile powdered OJ .

Where were the Findus crispy pancakes and chefs square shaped soups ?

iwantgin · 31/03/2015 21:29

I remember that my DGM had the onion, beetroot face jars.

Also these soup mugs

mugs I have two - but have seen some in the charity shop - am tempted to complete myset. ha ha

diddl · 31/03/2015 21:31

We had a chip pan with a lid!

I remember playing out, but the road is just too busy now.

diddl · 31/03/2015 21:33

We had those soup mugs as well!

mrsschatzepage · 31/03/2015 21:33

We didnt have a chip pan either. We seemed to have lamb chops for every meal. We wouldnt have had anything as exotic as a pot noodle.

Don't see why you would need to fake a shepherd's pie. Its probably takes just as long to make one from scratch.

mrsschatzepage · 31/03/2015 21:41

out to lunch you have just triggered a happy childhood flashback for me. WE used to have chef square soup (chicken or minestrone) as a late night treat. Reminds me of my dear old dad

mrsschatzepage · 31/03/2015 21:41

out to lunch you have just triggered a happy childhood flashback for me. WE used to have chef square soup (chicken or minestrone) as a late night treat. Reminds me of my dear old dad

Fugacity · 31/03/2015 21:52

I remember the chest freezer and stocking it up with a full pig (Farm Foods). We had a full size one and it fit in our kitchen. No idea how we could do this now.

We never had Pot Noodles as a family meal - just one or two people for a snack. Not much has changed.

We had a chip pan - big saucepan with no lid. It was half full of lard, and which would be melted and solidified at least three times per week. It was stored under the sink with no covering.

My favourite 1970s meal was our Saturday night "boiled ham and chips" with either tinned beetroot or tinned coleslaw or potato salad on the side. Today, this is fine in France as jambon frites.

Bunbaker · 31/03/2015 22:00

I have a feeling those soup mugs were collectables from buying a certain brand of petrol.

iklboo · 31/03/2015 22:09

We tried Pot Noodles once - never again. Pot Rice were okay though - especially the chicken & sweetcorn one. Wish they still did those.

We had a chip pan with a lid. Chips always done in lard. Nana didn't think they tasted right in oil. I remember power cuts. We had gas stove & fires. We used to cook for the old lady down the street & boil water to make a flask of tea for her.

Where was the Breville? Or was that 80s?

HoraceCope · 31/03/2015 22:12

i vaguely recall a chip pan but dont remember chips.
i remember power cuts, we had gas luckily.
Did you see the girls playing Mastermind. We had that game. and space hoppers.

they looked back on the 70s and halcyon days for children.

HollyJollyDillydolly · 01/04/2015 08:33

I'm too young to remember the 70s but there's plenty of pictures of me surrounded by orange and brown sofas/wallaper/carpet!
I used to love those frozen fish in sauce. Do they still do them? I'll have to look next time I go shopping, bet theyre nothing like I remember them though.

outtolunchagain · 01/04/2015 08:35

Oh yes Mastermind , we played so much of that, discovered it in a holiday villa a few years ago and ds3 loved it .

Had to laugh though when they said about how women were still doing the bulk of the work , that's not changed much .Yesterday did eight hours at work , came home to check on boys at lunchtime as its holiday ( they are teens ) home again at 5.30pm and then to supermarket and then make dinner , just sitting down to watch TV and Dh arrives home so time to cook for himAngryPrevious night we had powercut , perhaps I have time warped to the 1970s!

ppeatfruit · 01/04/2015 08:56

To be fair about the chip pan ikiboo There's a lot more publicity about the dangers of fires now (like cigarettes). We never had one, DM was too into healthy eating for that, hence we had the brown rice that she never cooked long enough YUCH! But I had an electric one in the late 80s or early 90s which was used 3 times and then sat on top of a cupboard Grin.

Though the mum could complain for england couldn't she?STILL!!

I will never forget the first avocado we ate in the early 70s I didn't like it Shock I can't live without them now Grin Notice the show forgot about avocados.

We had a G plan bright orange L shaped sofa (in 'units' that came apart). They're right back in fashion!

HappydaysArehere · 01/04/2015 09:55

Agee whole heartedly that the mother was selected for what appears to be a complete lack of cooking skills. Everything is exaggerated for the entertainment value. Smash was around and may well have been used as a fall back in case you ran out of potatoes or were in a real hurry. Never on a daily basis. Also, not mentioned yet is that shops closed between 5 and half past. If a woman was working it was often a rush to get to a shop on the way home. Then there was half day closing! Gradually convenience shops appeared usually run by Aisian families who were willing to put in the hours. Otherwise if you ran out of something like Bisto or sauce you couldn't buy it on a Sunday. If it wasn't perishable you couldn't buy it although the shop was open until mid-day. In the fifties there was one shop nearby who used to operate in a semi legal way and if you were lucky you could buy the odd thing. Fridges and freezers helped in the seventies although I remember several breakdowns and the need to insure the contents.

mateysmum · 01/04/2015 10:41

I remember the 70's very well as I was born in 61. I would just like to say for the record that we NEVER had Smash or Pot Noodle, but the occasional vesta curry did pass my lips. Also, to my eternal shame we did have some rather jazzy orange and blue curtains and the kitchen units had orange doors, but nothing was as phsycadelic (sp?) as the decor from last night's programme.

Couldn't believe the way she tried to cook the gammon steak - fried in lard. What's wrong with grilling it with a nice poached egg?

However I recognised the electric carving knife as the exact same one is still sitting in my drawer and we use it most weeks as it's brilliant for carving roasts.

I have to take issue with Brandon's rosey tinted view of power cuts. They were sodding miserable. In fact most of the 70's was pretty brown and miserable.