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Eating in the UK in the 1950s

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Cynthia

Cynthia Report 12 Sep 2013 14:34

So I did Andysmum!!! Which was the pudding we used to call 'frogspawn'? Was it sago or tapioca?????

Sharron

Sharron Report 12 Sep 2013 14:52

Fred called them both camel snot! He also told me that liquorice comfits were called rat's turds.

We were well brought up in the fifties!

Toilet rolls were hard Bronco ones so the bread would come in bread and bum paper, soft, tissue type paper which was much more kind to little botties!

There was a fruity sauce about called OK Sauce wasn't there. As I recall, it was not as sharp as Daddies.

Andysmum

Andysmum Report 12 Sep 2013 17:10

I think sago was frogspawn and tapioca was toadspawn. I wasn't very keen on the school versions of either.

Yes, there was a paper shortage. I can remember, at school, whenever we started a new notebook, the first thing we did was go through it, carefully ruling an extra line at the top of every page.

ChrisofWessex

ChrisofWessex Report 12 Sep 2013 17:10

Believe it was sago Cynthia

Cynthia

Cynthia Report 12 Sep 2013 17:35

Thanks for that.........just think what the kids of today missed :-D

AnnCardiff

AnnCardiff Report 12 Sep 2013 17:47

tapioca pudding - yuk yuk yuk!! we had it in school - used to scoop mine into an envelope and dispose of it later - I could throw up just thinking about it :-S