Eating in the UK in the Fifties

StairLifts.. .co.uk Making Life Simple PRESENTS Eating IN THE UK in the fifties CURRY TI T CURRY ANTI VAMPIRE EXT WAS A SURNAME SPICES CAME FROM THE MIDDLE EAST WHERE THEY BELIVED THAT THEY WERE USED FOR EMBALMING. HERBS WERE USED TO MAKE DODGY MEDICINE AND GARLIC WAS USED TO FIGHT VAMPIRES, NOT FLAVOUR BREAD! Eating Raw fish was called POVERTY not SUSHI SEAWEED WAS NOT CONSIDERED FOOD AND FISH DIDNT HAVE FINGERS BACK THEN. RICE WWAS A MILK PUDDING, AND NEVER PART OF YOUR DINNER! Crisps only came in one flavor. PLAIN SO MY OPTIONS ARE PLAIN OR PLAIN? CRISPS OIL WAS FOR LUBRICATING YOUR BIKE NOT FOR COOKING. FAT WAS FOR COOKING AND OLIVE OIL, WELL THAT OIL WAS KEPT IN THE MEDICINE CUPBOARD! FRYING FAT EERRE A Take Away was a math problem THE PIZZA HUT WAS AN ITALIAN SHED AND PIZZA HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH A LEANING TOWER SUGAR WAS REGARDED AS WHITE GOLD TEA WAS ONLY MADE USING LEAVES, AND NOT A BAG. IT ALSO ONLY CAME IN ONE COLOUR, BLACK. GREEN WAS NOT BRITISH. SUGAR CUBES WERE REGARDED AS POSH SEPH TETLEY& C TEYLEVA EEL PLCK BLEND TEA IN E OK Bananas and oranges only appeared at CHRISTMAS PINEAPPLES CAME IN CHUNKS IN A TIN; THEY HAD ONLY EVER SEEN A PICTURE OF A REAL ONE pineapple The one thing that they never ever allowed on their tables in the fifties WAS ELBOWS Sources: http://www.freetimeourstories.org.uk/eating-in-the-uk-in-the-fifties/ Created By: StairLifts.co.uk Making Life Simple