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A Pint Of Peas
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Does anyone else out there remember back to 50's i think when frozen peas became available. Not having a freezer I remember being sent to the butchers with a jug to get a pint of peas!
Am I imagining it? My lot think I am going senile
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When Iceland shops first opened they had open cases of loose frozen food and veg in the freezers, with scoops to serve yourself with as much of each as you wanted. You took a plastic bag and used the scoop to put as much of each item in it as you wanted. You took your bags to the till and paid by weight. They also had things like Fish Fingers , chicken portions, chips and frozen pies loose and you just put as many as you needed in your plastic bags and paid at the till by how many you wanted. It was a lot cheaper than buying the same items prepacked in a cardboard box. Was it this you remember?
We bought our first freezer in 1970 or 1971 - a chest freezer because they were classed as commercial so there was no purchase tax on them. We shopped in Bejam, later taken over by Iceland, and bought 20lb of peas at a time and also bought large bags (about 20lb) of carrots off the market and peeled, blanched and froze them ourselves.
I used to work for this company, before Iceland took them over.
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I remember Bejam. But this was even before their time. I thinkthat it may well have been the fishmonger because he would have ice available, as a new thing when the frozen peas first became available. just offering an extra service to his customers. He may have been the only one doing it and as far as I can remember we would have been living in Lewisham or New Cross at that time.
It started me off on the niceness of frozen peas over canned. Wouldn't have canned peas in the house ever.
It started me off on the niceness of frozen peas over canned. Wouldn't have canned peas in the house ever.
We had a Bejam deep freeze for many years. In fact we only got rid of it about 10 years ago . It must have lasted at least 25 years.
I forgot Iceland was originally Bejam. It was probably Bejam stores that I remember selling loose frozen food , it was definitely the late 1960s as it was when I was still at school,left school in 1968.
I forgot Iceland was originally Bejam. It was probably Bejam stores that I remember selling loose frozen food , it was definitely the late 1960s as it was when I was still at school,left school in 1968.
A funny story about shops. 30 odd years ago I used to do the shopping for my late mother. The store was called Fine Fare and it had a section called 'Weigh your own', whereby you dipped a big trowel into the tub and served yourself. She insisted that I get her cornflakes from there, which I duly did. One day a light bulb came on; something was not quite right. I did the maths and realised that they were more expensive than a box of Kellogg's. I duly bought a box of the latter, only to receive a severe scolding for wasting money! Nothing I could say would convince her.
