Eating in the fifties.
Healthy food consisted of anything edible.
Brown bread was something only poor people ate.
Prunes were medicinal.
None of us had ever heard of yoghurt.
People who didn't peel potatoes were regarded as lazy.
Surprisingly, muesli was readily available, but it was called cattle feed.
Tea was made in a teapot using tea leaves and never green.
Sugar enjoyed good press in those days, and was regarded as being white gold. Cubed sugar was regarded as posh.
Oil was for lubricating, fat was for cooking.
Cooking outside was called camping.
Fish didn't have fingers in those days.
Eating raw fish was called poverty, not sushi.
Calamari was called squid and we used it as fish bait.
Seaweed was not a recognised food.
Curry was a surname.
Indian restaurants were only found in India.
"Kebab" was not even a word, never mind a food.
Pasta was not eaten in Australia.
A takeaway was a mathematical problem.
A Big Mac was what we wore when it was raining.
A pizza was something to do with a leaning tower.
Rice was only eaten as a milk pudding.
All potato chips were plain; the only choice we had was whether to put the salt on or not.
Water came out of the tap.
If someone had suggested bottling it and charging more than petrol for it, they would have become a laughing stock!!
But two things that we never ever had on our table in the fifties ....." Elbows and Phones. "
