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 occasionally buy the boil in the bag fish, I quite like them but I swear the portions have become smaller.

I've got a Homepride Fred flour sifter!

Praps they were doing a retro collection some time, cos it's certainly not an original 70s one. Makes me smile.

Ok, later I'll catch up, but for now just want to observe that The Sainted One's recipes were always spot on, assuming you'd the intelligence to read and follow a menu..

Oh, I see the snag here..

You think you only had Smash once or twice, how do you know your mother wasnt pulling the wool over your eyes

My mother did have a chip pan but never used it she says, probably because she too was worried about the consequences.

i dont remember convenience foods except for the Brains Faggots, on one occasion, and they were disgusting.

Has the Arctic roll made an appearance yet or was that an 80s thing?

Marking place. Loved the first two eps but have yet to watch the 70s one. The dad cuts quite a dash in all the terrible retro clothes, IMO.

I want to sort the mum's posture out.

I loved when the elder daughter moved into a bedsit in the 60s one and Katharine Whitehorn came round.

It was very interesting that the mum said she felt that the 60s were fresh and exciting if you were a teenager, but for married women over a certain age it seemed to be still just the 50s and she was still stuck in the kitchen. Hadn't really thought of 'the swinging sixties' like that before.

I too have the identical electric carving knife and it is still in regular use. The psychedelic wallpaper was not used on every wall; it would just be used on one wall in a room. We still have our large chest freezer in the garage; purchased in 1975 and still going strong, though a little rusty. I liked the powdered orange juice , we would take loads of it on camping holidays.

My uncle had a similar set of soup bowls that he aquired stole from a cafe chain called Oliver's iirc.

Jacana you weren't watching were you? Yes it made rather a major appearance as a favoured freezer purchase. Though i don't remember if they liked it. I noticed that the girls and the dad ALL cooked better than the mum!!

I was born early 50s and i don't really remember the 6os being fresh and exciting (apart from the Beatles of course) and a the few flashy clothes that we could afford. There were some horrible pervy men about who looked up our mini skirts . But dsis and I were too young and broke to go to concerts and too straight to get into alcoholic or druggy scenes. Of course I DO remember them .

Did anyone else see the miserable look on the mum's face, at the Indian restaurant? That annoyed me so much!

I was impressed by the instant extension - I wonder how they managed that. Perhaps it was always there, but temporarily blocked off - ditto the 'knocked through' lounge?

SamVimesGirl, I think their 'real' kitchen is bigger i.e. has the extension, and for the 50s show they blocked it off to make it more like an authentic poky 50s kitchen.

Love the username!

ppeatfruit well, I thought I'd check in here first and then if there was something to bitchcomment about, then I'd watch

It was the mention of Fred that got me excited this morning

Actually it will be interesting, not so much for the food as the wallpaper and carpets. My friends mum lives in a psychedelic time warp and she's certainly got those soup cups/mugs too.

I was born late 70's but we had those brown trays and chopping boards with the orange flowers well into the 90's I think until they broke! I have a photo of me as a small child with my parents and everything about the decor etc was brown and beige.

I loved the Mastermind game (I would have played that in the 80's onwards) and do remember shopping in Bejam, we had a huge chest freezer. My mum did cook most meals from scratch still from her 'brown' vegetarian book!

I'll tune in next week to see if the 80's stuff rings any bells.

whose idea was all this orange?
i still have an orange bread knife, courtesy of my mum

do you think orange could/should make a come back?

It was interesting to see the girls make hummus, and they ate it with pitta bread (I think) when you think how huge all types of dips are now.

Hummus and pitta didn't reach my parts of South Yorkshire in the 70s!!!

and this was their favourite meal. no wonder my mum was pleased I went veggie in 1979 - very 70s child me

I was born late 70's but we had those brown trays and chopping boards with the orange flowers well into the 90's I think until they broke!

This is why I get annoyed with some TV stuff set in the 70s and 80s. They forget that most people had very little money so stuff like trays were not thrown out the minute the fashion changed.

My folks set up home together in the 70s and I recognised most of the stuff in the program.
It was interesting watching it with DH as we are from fairly different backgrounds. He remembers the 3 day week; his dad was on a 3 day week and they would have been in serious trouble had it not been for the allotment, processed food and crisps.
My mum was more brown rice and hummus.

I loved that instant orange stuff. What was it called again? In our house, it was chips with everything. And stuff like eggs was deep fried too, in the same lard. I couldn't help laughing at her attempts to cook chips in shallow fat.

Smash was frowned upon in our house but Vesta Chow Me in was a real treat-I was sent to Guides of a Friday evening, given 4 pee for a bag of Scrumps from the chippie, and getting in to the sight of my parents scoffing Chow Mein and listening to Friday Night is Music Night..

I can't remember anyone actually eating fondue-only on the telly. I think the series is based more on middle-class households: I can't remember ever eating together as a family unless it was a Sunday. My father was fed as soon as he walked in the door, and had something tasty and substantial, whilst I had something like a boiled egg on toast.

We ate so little compared to today. No wonder we were thin-we were bloody starving.

we had a fondue,

Rise and Shine was the drink! the name is familiar

No mention of Angel Delight? that really instant pud!

We wondered where Angel Delight was too. Might be in the 80s one though.

I wasn't born until the late 80's and I still have some of those amazing brown dishes with the flowers on in my cupboard, they've been passed down from my nan, I also gave some from last weeks show for the 60's

I bet if they did a good survey now they'd find we all eat a lot more (quantity and variety) I've had 2 slices of cake today already (late pregnancy is my excuse!)

Pipbin as well as our brown trays that lasted years me and my mum were found chucking in our local vintage trading warehouse place the other week as they had some purple flowery 'vintage' pillow cases that we still have loads of that we had from the 70's/80's. They've been passed around us all because they are still useable but were priced up at £3 per pillow case