Back in Time for Dinner/the Weekend/School

[Julie2owlsdene]

Did anyone notice that the husband complained about his meal, whilst rationing was on, and his wife was a bit upset. She should have chucked the plate at him!!! Or wasn't that allowed during rationing!

They only had to put up with that sort of food for about three days, how on earth did they think the poor housewife had to manage during the war!

That husband needed a good thick ear!!

[Katharine]

I haven't seen the programme, but I've seen similar ones in the past from the sounds of it. I'm sure they must deliberately choose people who aren't going to cope very well. When the 1940s house was broadcast a few years back, I remember thinking how much of it wasn't that far from my own childhood which was 20 years later, although thankfully we didn't have the air raids, and although my parents had to be frugal with the housekeeping money, food wasn't rationed. So to put someone like me on a programme like that wouldn't have made very good viewing as I wouldn't have found life as challenging as the chosen family did.

[Moonraker]

Did anyone notice that the husband complained about his meal, whilst rationing was on, and his wife was a bit upset......That husband needed a good thick ear!!

I took it that hubby was complaining about the ingredients/food quality, not his wife's cooking. You would have done well as a housewife in the 50s, with all the thick ears you hand out.

[Anita Bensoussane]

You would have done well as a housewife in the 50s, with all the thick ears you hand out.

Good job you didn't say, "with all the thick ears you dish out"!

[Moonraker]

Haha! Mind you, I have never tasted Julie's cooking. I see our local market pet-trader sells pigs ears. I've often wondered what they taste like...

[Anita Bensoussane]

Just don't try making a silk purse out of them!

[Julie2owlsdene]

Haha! Mind you, I have never tasted Julie's cooking. I see our local market pet-trader sells pigs ears. I've often wondered what they taste like...

I don't think I could bring myself to ear an ear. It looks too much like a part of an animal.

[Katharine]

'Ear 'Ear.

Or as Pa Stick would say 'Now look 'ere'

[John Pickup]

Ear we go again.

[burlingtonbertram]

Quite a good episode last night; on to the sixties. The mother definitely isn't much of a cook. I can't blame her for that but she does seem a bit feckless generally. I expect the father to start doing the cooking from the 80's episode onward as I gather he does much of their cooking in real life.

Although I bake a lot of traditional things, there's a lot I consider as staples that wouldn't have been around until the 80's:

- ground coffee
- pizza
- wine from shops of all sizes
- olives
- black pepper
- olive oil
- mozzarella
- wine vinegar
- pasta

Sure, some of those things had been available for years but were not commonly available in small provincial towns like Bridlington. The programme last night said that in the 60's olive oil was mainly available in chemists; for medicinal purposes (e.g. ear-ache).

Roll on the 80's!

[Julie2owlsdene]

I enjoyed last nights episode in the 60's as I remember it very well.

I do agree about the mother, she doesn't have very much idea on how to cook despite having the equipment all at hand now, even the fridge. We didn't have a fridge until 1971!!

I'd like to know why the dog suddenly had to be shooed out of the room, even before he'd made his appearance, by the father. He sounded a right old niggley so and so!!!!

[Moonraker]

He sounds perfectly sensible to me!

[Daisy]

He sounds perfectly sensible to me!

I enjoyed last night's spisode too - did we really appreciate that decor without needing sunglasses? My children were all born in the 60s and I can't remember food ever being a problem - we had plenty of variety.
I don't remember sixteen year olds setting up in a flat though but I suppose they must have done.

[Anita Bensoussane]

I liked the baby blue kitchen. It was good to see some fun, colour and flavour injected into life, with snazzy fabrics coming in and foods like spaghetti bolognese being served.

[Julie2owlsdene]

My Mum never cooked spaghetti bolognese, or any of those foods in the box, which looked quite like dish water with bits floating around on top!

That kitchen was quite modern, but ours wasn't as modern as the baby blue kitchen. I saw kitchens like that in magazines, but we couldn't afford one!