[BITList] The fifties

[HUGH]

John,

We had "pasta" - well, macaroni, eaten with milk.

Bananas and oranges were fairly common mid/late 50's. My great aunt had a fruit shop.

Seaweed was eaten in the 50's. Seaside stalls sold it (dulse).  I didn't like it.

In our house, 40's/50's, we got prunes as a sweet, eat it or wear it. Mum didn't negotiate.

I first saw/smelled a curry aboard MV Chakdara 1956, but the dish in various forms was available in cities around the UK long before that.

Brown bread  (I don't recall seeing it) was just that -  Cockney rhyming slang hadn't yet come north. We had plain loaves or pan loaves, unsliced white, unwrapped.

Hugh.
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