EATING IN THE UK IN THE 50's

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London_Calling said:
The other thing is that in the 1950s rationing and recovery from the war was still an issue.
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Studies in the 'sixties showed that the war-time diet of rationed food and whatever extras you could lay hands on (we ate a lot of rabbit, which was not rationed) was actually healthier than the average diet when the studies were made.

Not sure if that is still true as the healthy eating movement got going about that time. Indeed the studies I mentioned were probably ammunition for the healthy eating movement.

Looking at the obesity figures for the US, I am guessing Americans would be better off on a UK war-time diet. Scots and Welsh too, and maybe the English.

In the eight years I have been coming to, and now living in, the DR the locals seem to be getting a lot fatter. Could the population really have changed in such a short time, or am I imagining things?
 
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Ah Vimto........nothing finer than a glass of ice cold Vimto and a haddock & chips, peas and plain bread buttered. 5 star cuisine. I also noted that the Arabs go for Vimto in a big way as well. popular there with a tunnocks caramel log or tea cake !!!!
 
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Vimto?? Vimto?? That nasty $hit was the demise of my marriage. Every weekend, I was forced to go to MIL House, for dinner consisting of "mannish water" and Guiness mixed with Vimto. Vile, I tells ya, vile.
 
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I expect it would be if mixed with guiness, who had that bright idea and what is mannish water
 
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Mannish water is Jamaican goat head soup. Whole head, tongue, eyeballs, teeth, EVERYTHING, is chopped up with spices and maybe veggies, and simmered forever. While not visually appealing, its actually quite tasty.
 
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endlessly fascinating. i need to inquire about 50s and 60s fare in poland when i talk to my parents again. i am pretty sure of the intense involvement of cabbage. and possibly onion and garlic, as they could stay fresh for a long time during the winter.
 
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Do you know why English men invented soccerl, tennis, basket ball and cricket? (very much related to this thread
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I am sorry but basketball was invented by a canadian-american ( james naismith)
And tennis was invented in france
 
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Yes i thought he was going to make a joke ???

Cricket from northern belgium ? :) never heard of that. I thought the french claimed it to be french and that during the 100 years of war the english stole the idea then claiming it to be british those idea stealers.

And btw some football( soccer, i say football) like sport was played by the maya.

So :) at the end none of those things are british
 
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