General Chat

Anybody watching it?

Last night she was making a corned beef hot pot thing that a miner's wife had made during the strike and she said it was humbling to be making it.

We always eat like that, except that I will soak beans rather than use corned beef and O don't use suet because it is not necessary in dumplings. Flour, salt, baking powder and water make a perfectly good dumpling.

Watching the series makes me realize that I have hardly progressed from the fifties.

I saw the beginning, but had to turn over when he (who must be in his late 30's, early 40's) was incapable of opening a tin of pilchards properly with an 'old fashioned' tin opener :-0
Surely logic tells you, that if 'modern' tin openers go around the edge of a can, 'old fashioned' ones will do similar!!

I have the grandsons tomorrow, guess what I'll be showing them?

I have never used one of those can spanners, not since I was four and pinched my finger.

To give him the benefit of the doubt, there are a lot of modern can openers that take the top off from under the rim.

They were lucky not to get a tin of pilchards that opened with a key like corned beef tins. I think they were designed to stop you getting at the contents of the tin.

Yes I'm watching it. Mum is a disaster in the kitchen. Laughed at her attempts to make chips in a chip pan.

Interesting, now they are in the 80s, what the 3 children's said in their summing up. The lad, who's all for sweets, wants to go back to the 50s because he wants sweets as a special treat not something that's readily available. 1 of the girls wants an early decade when the family ate together and did more together. The 2nd girl wanted to go back to when meals were done from scratch as it was healthier than all the processed food.

I'll be very interested to hear their summing up after the last decade they do.

We've watched the last 3 episodes. 1950 onwards. We feel that as the husband normally does the cooking, the wife has very little experience to draw on. They do have the disadvantage of not having ingredients left over from earlier meals which they can use the next day.

Guess what we've put on todays shopping list? Viennetta :-D

The one where they ate Pot Noodles made me gag!
When they came out, in the late 1970's, I was living in a bedsit. Not once did I stoop to eating them. The smell :-(
I can't stand the smell of foods with monosodium glutamate added, and in a bedsit that would be overpowering.
I once tried some a friend was eating - they tasted as bad as they smelt. :-( :-(

I thought I could remember Viennettas from before the time they said but now I think I must have been remembering Arctic Rolls.

I have never ate a pot noodle in my life :-D :-D

I will eat one about every eighteen months.

Aldi do a curry one and I put some sultanas in when I make it,a bit of extra mango sauce as well.

I don't eat meat but other than that I will try things.

I've only seen the 70's one and was more interested in the décor etc. (which was very well done if a little OTT) than the 'cooking'. Mrs R seems totally clueless and like a fish out of water in the kitchen. Even the fried eggs looked like something alien.

Normally, I'll try any food once - I even had a 'Happy Meal' at a McD's - once - but the smell of Pot Noodles in the 70's was just too much :-(

They do smell a bit but I like those processed peas that smell like farts.

It's been interesting but the woman of the house is a bit dozy.

Brought back lots of memories tho

Lizx

im loving this series but the producers have picked a complete pickled egg when it comes to the mother its hard to believe shes a school teacher in her real job, the girls tho seem very switched on.