Food in the 50's

[Mr Bunt]

Tesco have just introduced a new product: Tesco Everyday Value meatballs.

People are saying they're the dog's b*ll*cks.

[Mickey]

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[Mickey]

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[Mr Bunt]

Tesco have just introduced a new product: Tesco Everyday Value meatballs.

People are saying they're the dog's b*ll*cks.

I must admit Mr Bunt that post of yours did raise weary smile.

Glad you liked it Micky. I thought it'd make a change from all the horse jokes.

[earlswood nob]

G'day all
Vesta cow mein etc.......that woke a few memories.....used to eat those as a student back in the late 60's.
I used to add curry powder to the curries even in those days.......
How about those tetrahedron shaped frozen Jubblys? We used to get them at a corner shop by the school and walk home sucking them..
Earlswood Nob

[Postman Prat]

If it's got a face - eat it!!

I do wish people would stop mentioning Jubbly. Makes me feel old. Oh, I am old!!

[Mickey]

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[giner]

What were those curries that came in a sort of two-tier tin? The one half contained the curry, the other half contained the rice. So you had to open both ends of the tin, put contents on a plate, then heat and serve.

[Coboman]

Anybody remember when milk was first sold in cartons? be about 1975ish They were the most rediculous pyramid shape and impossiable to get into without taking a milk shower, and the md of the firm behind them tried to show people how to get in them on live telly due to complaints and got covered himself? That was so funny!

[Mickey]

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[Mr Bunt]

No surprise really that most of the stuff with horse meat in has come from France.
A Latin Quarter menu contemporary with the Siege of Paris (1870/71) reads in part:

* Consommé de cheval au millet. (horse)
* Brochettes de foie de chien à la maître d'hôtel. (dog)
* Emincé de rable de chat. Sauce mayonnaise. (cat)
* Epaules et filets de chien braisés. Sauce aux tomates. (dog)
* Civet de chat aux champignons. (cat)
* Côtelettes de chien aux petits pois. (dog)
* Salamis de rats. Sauce Robert. (rats)
* Gigots de chien flanqués de ratons. Sauce poivrade. (dog, rats)
* Begonias au jus. (flowers)
* Plum-pudding au rhum et à la Moelle de Cheval. (horse)

Would you buy food from people who eat things like that?

[strang steel]

I remember buying UHT milk in triangular sided cartons around 1970, when I had my first depressing bedsit with no way of keeping fresh milk fresh.

The UHT milk tasted rather foul, but I had it on my cereals for breakfast. However, I used to brush my teeth before eating because the taste of the toothpaste made the milk palatable.

Tinned sausages? Found them here - http://www.anorak.co.uk/217361/strange- ... lard.html/

Not Walls, but that was the best I could do.

I think that my favourite Vesta meal was the beef curry. I used to eat two small ones at a time, but on occasions they did produce a larger box, which was more a family size, so I had one of those if I could find them. I also liked the chicken supreme.

[Blink Bonny]

Hmm.

Tesco Value Meatballs?

Horse b#ll#cks?

[Danby Wiske]

Hmm.

Tesco Value Meatballs?

Horse b#ll#cks?

In that case, vegetarians should probably avoid the Tesco Value Nut Roast...

[Bryan]

You could buy fresh cold milk from cartons back in the 1960s. When corner shops in England were mostly closed after 6:pm on weekdays and on Sundays (in an England in long days gone in the past) there sometimes use to be 'milk machines' chained to the shop doorway that use to sell 'half pint cartons' of fresh milk from Express dairy.

I vaguely recall one of these 'milk machines' either on Kings Cross station probably on the old no.10 platform (near the buffer stops end) or just outside the station back in the early 1970s.

Definately one on Southport Station mid 60s.
I know its in the wrong area but I hadn't been educated then.