food in the 60's

[katietab]

what food did they eat in the 60's?

[bob57]

I was only a kid in the 60's but we had the normal things like cornflkes,bacon & eggs, macaroni & cheese, just the normal things that we have today except it was home made not precooked like we have today

that does not include chinese or indian take away meals

[Artemis]

Not many takeaway shops around, other than Fish & Chip shops. Frozen pre prepared meals were limited to burgers and roast beef in gravy. Home prepared food was definately the thing.

[shaneystar2]

Mostly stodge....in our house anyway.!! To fill you up! It was all home cooked food mainly..the only take away was fish and chips and a chinese.
We used to have stuff like ...Sunday ..a joint of meat..which was recycled on Monday with bubble and squeak and then minced up on Tuesday for shepherds pie. We used to have home made pies ,puddings stews,and so on .My mother used to bake once a week, jam tarts ,sausage rolls and cake of some sort. We always had plenty of fresh veg ..we had an allotment.Porridge for breakfast and a fried brekkie at the weekend.Beans on toast was very popular ..still is I suppose.
The highlight of the week was tinned fruit and cream on a Sunday.. cold meat and salad. .Believe it or not we also used to have pigs trotters.
But if you were posh you could have stuff like Prawn Cocktail ,Steak Diane and Black Forest gateau !

[ermintrude35]

...starters...

prawn cocktail, melon with port, half an avocado with prawns, a boiled egg cut in half covered in mayonaise, all server with brown bread and butter

...main ...

steak with onion rings half a tomato and chips, beef stroganoff, duck a la orange, seafood fricasse with rice, chicken in a basket

...sweet...

sherry trifle, blackforest gateau, pineapple upsidedown cake, angel delight, arctic roll

[ermintrude35]

* this is a typical resteraunt menu (bar the angel delight/arctic roll)

[Gef]

Similar sort of things to shaney although I wouldn't call it stodge. Best things were the Sunday roast which was always served at 5pm when my Dad got home from the steelworks - real Yorkshires and homemade mushy peas. Also homemade pea and ham soup with lots of tatties, swede and onions in it and also Mum's corned beef stew.

Luckily our school dinners were also good especially the stew and meat pie always followed by something with custard - cornflake pie, greengage pie etc.

Also had a sandwich for supper every night yet I still only weighed 10 stones when I went to Uni.

Brings back memories - could go on and on.

[Postdog]

Lots of offal and stuff too that you don't see any more, like lambs hearts, liver, kidneys (pork chop with a kidney in was brill!), tripe, ox tail soup and pigs trotters.

OK, I know strictly speaking these are still around, but as was pointed out, a lot more home cooking was done then.

I also remember fish fingers, and real ham, not this "reformed" stuff you see nowadays.

[shaneystar2]

Ooooh! Pork chop with kidney ..you very rarely see those these days .We used to have something called pigs fry ..which if I remember rightly was all the heart,lights and and liver etc.
Better stop now or shall be on here all night chatting about long lost delicacies. Do you remember Bath Chaps,pigs cheeks in breadcrumbs ....Very tasty !

[beejaybee]

I was born in the early `53 so so I went through a lot of stages in the 60`s. I can remember that everything was fresh & home cooked. My mum used to spend a whole afternoon making cakes,pies etc. She didn`t even by a packet of biscuits. Fresh food lasted a lot longer in those days, even without a fridge/freezer. I do remember mum having a fridge with an ice box, but that would have been `63. School meals were great, real food not junk. I think kids were a lot healthier in those days to.

[sddsddean]

As said, mostly real food, but what about Vesta Curry's? Whatever happened to them?

[thikasabrik]

Vesta curries are still on sale in supermarkets, but rather you than me sddsddean! I can remember my mum being adventurous in the early 1960's and buying an avocado - none of us had ever seen one before. We shared it and it was disgusting. It wasn't until years later I realised that it had been rotten and that avocados weren't meant to be black & slimy on the inside! Does anyone remember part baked bread from the late 60's..I think it was called Take & Bake.

[ellesbelles]

What I remember about the sixties was that we had the same meal on certain days of the week. Mondays for example were also hash - either with the left overs from the Sunday joint or corned beef. I thought chicken was delicious as it was so tasty but we only had this for a treat. Always had chips with batter bits from the chip shop on a Saturday after the swimming baths - this was the only takeaway food. The arrival (in a mining village) of a Chinese restaurant and takeaway in the seventies was considered extremely exotic. A visit to a cafe was also a treat - a milk shake and a scone was all we usually had. There was rarely a great deal of excess in the pantry because shopping was often done daily as smaller places didn't have proper supermarkets and most people didn't have a car or a fridge. Sounds poverty stricken eh? It wasn't!

[sithlord]

Lard butties and brown ale if my families dodgy arteries are anything to go by!!

[lilacben]

I never had a meal in a resturant until I was 17. with my now husband of 36 years.Had never had a steak before.My mum and dad alwas had the same things the same day of the week. And alwas a roast on sunday.No frozen food other than veg.Only a small fridge with icebox at the top.

[teag1rl]

I had to enquire what the hell the brown thing attached to my pork chop was the other day. Mother kindly pointed out it was a kidney and very tasty it was too-cant believe I've been on planet 26 yrs, eaten loads of pork chops but not come across a kidney before!

[sweetdor]

im only 46 and i have to cook my hubby from time to time trotters and hes 49!!!!!

[katietab]

Thanks all for your suggestions. The menu was for a murder mystery dinner and was set in the 60's. We ate lentil soup, chicken in white wine and engel delight. It all went down a treat so thanks again! :)

[bob57]

it looks like the cook did the murder

ha-ha I hope you enjoyed your murder mystery