food facts advertisements from 1940-1950

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521 food facts advertisements from uk; ww2-1950's rationing.
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[Binky Profile]

Drinka Pinta Milka day

Don't forget the fruit gums Mum

Percy Potato says 'Dig for Victory'

[wargarden Profile]

binky it was peter potato

[cherrytree Profile]

Sorry, but I think it was Potato Pete.

[cherrytree Profile]

And what a miracle the Ministry of Food performed. Children became taller and healthier and the nation coped well despite the diet being dull. I can barely remember much of my immediate post war childhood, except going to the food office and having that absolutely gorgeous orange juice. The cid liver oil was less appetising but essential.

[karadekoolaid Profile]

Even though food rationing was lifted in 1954, there were many, many items which were either scarce or seasonal for many years afterwards.
Importation of items that, today, we might consider absolutely necessary in our cooking was very limited.
Tomatoes, in my youth, were only available in the summer - or in tins.
The first time I tried a green pepper was, I think, in a Chinese restaurant when I was about 14- 15 (1966-67)
I recall our delight when " Mexican Sweetcorn" ( corn, peppers and onions) arrived in tins.
Fresh strawberries were restricted to about 4 weeks, between the end of May and the end of June.
My first experience of broccoli was at a lunch in Oxford, in 1970.

Gawd, ain´t we come a long way, eh?

[Pampy Profile]

I can barely remember much of my immediate post war childhood, except going to the food office and having that absolutely gorgeous orange juice. The cod liver oil was less appetising but essential.

I remember that too - used to love the oj! My Dad mixed the cod liver oil with Delrosa rosehip syrup to try and make it more palatable - it was, but only just! It was probably around the time when we all wore liberty bodices

[Stokey Sue Profile]

Tomatoes made a brief out of season appearance in our house with the cold turkey at Christmas- half a pound of Canary Island tomatoes, looked the part but like eating acid soaked cotton wool.

My parents got married in 1944 so my mother learned to cook during rationing, and largely from Ministry of Food leaflets.

One thing I remember, coming from the coat is how few types of fish we ate - superb grey mullet ( now scarce and protected) were used to bait crab and lobster pots. Of course some people ate them, including me as soon as I started cooking, they cost pennies.

[Joanbunting Profile]

Oh the Canary tomatoes at Christmas ! by that time I was out of Liberty bodices Pampy. The one ice cream a year on the one day trip to the seaside = I recently found a photograph of me and my first one.

[Suffs Profile]

The first green pepper I ever saw was in the mid sixties in an art class at school

[Binky Profile]

Maybe I'm from a deprived background, because as late as the mid 1970s, I had heard about avocado pears from some friends. They had eaten at an upmarket restaurant near Huddersfield.

"Avocado pear?" sez me. "What did you have it with?"

"Oh there were prawns, lettuce and a lovely mayonnaise"

" Aaagh, prawns with pears. How revolting" sez me.



(They quickly went on to become a firm favourite in our house, so I wasn't entirely a philistine).

[scullion Profile]

having that absolutely gorgeous orange juice..

hmmm - happy memory. my aunt, a welfare officer, used to bring it for us.
i found some that tasted exactly the same in the late seventies/early eighties in an indian supermarket (willesden green). it was the 'sunquick' brand. unfortunately they then decided to re-jig the formula and it was sweetened beyond recognition (or need).

the first avocado i had was in a restaurant on bayswater in about 1975/76 where i'd gone with my best friend. the prawns from the middle were passed to my friend.
i don't remember seeing or hearing of them much before then in the uk.
green peppers, i don't remember the first ones - there was always bowlful on the salad table at school along with a bowl of chicory leaves and another ten or fifteen bowls of different things.

[smitch Profile]

My earliest memory of avocado from the late 80s was from a children's book called ‘Avocado Baby’
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/100/1001167/avocado-baby/9780099200611.html

Don’t think I actually tried it until I was at uni in the early 2000s, when a friend made guacamole. I grew up in a very unadventurous house food wise and avocado wasn’t found on pub menus in the Hull area at the time. My parents never ate in restaurants, only pubs, usually in one of the local villages. They’re still like that now

[Stokey Sue Profile]

My dad had the occasional business lunch in Portsmouth or London late 60s, and had been served avocado and not enjoyed it

Then for some reason ca 1968 we were sent a box of avocados. We tried them, we didn’t like them and abandoned the box in a corner of the dining room. We thought we’d give them another try before composting and they were delicious and the penny dropped - we’d never tried a ripe one before, restaurants were serving them rock hard.

[Renee Profile]

I disliked avocado the first time that I tried it, but grew to love it especially with prawns and mayonnaise and now in later years smashed with poached eggs on top.

[cherrytree Profile]

I can remember exactly where I had my first green pepper. It was about 1958 and my father bought it from a greengrocers on Tolworth Broadway. At a similar time ,we were with my mother in Sainsbury’s also in that very dull part of suburban London on Tolworth Broadway, when some small tubs were on display on the dairy counter. When we got them home, we tasted raspberry yoghurt fit the first time.

[Joanbunting Profile]

I had never heard or seen of an avocado when we went to the Bahamas in 1966 and there they literally fell on you from the trees. likewise mangoes, DD was weaned on them

[karadekoolaid Profile]

I can´t honestly remember my first avocado in England.
However, when I came to Venezuela and was offered six or seven different varieties - none of which was the miserable little tennis-ball sized offering from Israel - I couldn´t believe it. I am currently growing three different avocado varieties in my garden.
As for mangoes, pineapples and guavas; I´d only ever eaten tinned ones. What a revelation!