Heinz Tinned Soups

[douglas9401]

I took advantage of the mix and match 5 for a fiver in Morrisons and have to ask, who decided to change the lentil and oxtail recipes?

Not what I remember at all.

[netherfield]

In the late 50s or early sixties there was a local dept store went up in flames. Totally destroyed the top three floors. 

Dad went to the auction sale and bought out of the cellar a couple of thousand tins which were unaffected by the fire, but about half had no labels because of the water from the firemen.

Anything with a label was sold at a reduced price, anything without a label was sold for sixpence(2 and a half p) a can as a mystery product. There were soups, fruit, rice puddings, meat among all of this. Reminds me of 'Open all hours' and Arkwright shaking a tin trying to guess what was in it. And of course there were no use by or sell by dates back then. Some did get thrown away when the tins started to go rusty.