Common words from your childhood,that woukd have to be explained to your Grandchild.

My children and grandchildren would not recognise a lot of the food we were served at school dinners - ox liver, shaving foam, macaroni, tapioca, prunes.

Milk Stout, think Ena, Martha and Minnie in early Corrie.

Broilers (tough cheap old chickens)
Brawn (boil a sheeps head for 4 hours, it smelled vile and then squash it all down)
Mutton chops , the meat and facial hairy variety.
Brown Windsor soup.

Oh yes, I remember my dad saying about going tats!

What is Milk Stout? I never knew!

Jalima, Milk Stout was a dark sweet rich beer containing lactose, it was very popular with older ladies who drank it for a medicinal purposes apparently.

Thank you!

I have drunk Mackesons (to build me up when I was ill, apparently) and Guinness (once only) but I thought that milk stout was a Coronation Street invention

Oh! Mackesons is milk stout.
Well I never!

Tripe and cow heel. Makes me shudder to think of it now but I can remember my mother soaking slabs of white tripe in bowls of milk and then eating it. Cow heel pie that had a glutinous, slimy gravy that set solid on your plate when it grew cold. Urgh!

Bread & dripping

Reading this I really think I need to de-clutter.

I have a threepenny bit on my bedside table.
I have a game of Jacks
I have a darning mushroom
I have a cheque book

and when I did Business Studies in the 70's part of the course was Computer studies - guess what - we had no access to a computer

At least you have a bang-up-to-date username, SmorforTerf.

I still use my Nan’s singer treadle! It outlived my electric machine.
As nesh as a gas mantle
I will smack your bottom until it bleeds buttermilk - a threat never carried out!

In 1970, she I was in hospital, after giving birth to my first son, I was given Mackeson.

Tooth powder?

And - toothpaste and other creams in metal tubes that actually worked! Hey, maybe we could go back to metal ones and save plastic....

Meatsafe--hanging in the yard on a north wall.
Sunlight soap bars-- left to harden on a high kitchen shelf.
Flour and water paste--for paper chains.
Playtex girdles--with little holes to let the sweat out!
Communal bath houses.
Tinned cream---does anyone remember the Bell cream maker that made "cream" from melted butter and milk?I've still got mine tucked away in the back of a cupboard in case it ever becomes a valuable antique!

Reading this and tve school di ner thread it has occurred to me that as a child I would hardly have recognised most of what my GC eat today! We never had pasta except as a sweet milk pudding, ditto rice. Id never heard of mango, kiwi, blueberries (though we has what we called wimberries picked on the moors) and cerainly not papaya. Likewise pizza, bolognese sauce, hummus, quinoa, smoothies, yoghurt and lots of other things. My GC would be amazed!!

I suppose it was really whinberries? Aka bilberries.

chicken My auntie had a Bell cream maker. I used to love helping her to make cream when I was staying with her. It tasted pretty good as far as I remember.

pollyperkins, as a child I used to go up the mountain behind my grandma's house and pick whinberries. She would make a superb tart. I suppose the nearest we have now are blueberries. But they do not come close to the taste of whinberries.

Packing for coach holidays - Gibbs Dentifrice, Quickies cleansing pads and Cussons talc. I can smell them now!

Wright's coal tar soap, very distinctive smell.
White fire perfume in a red bottle.
Funny how smells are so evocative rockgran

I've laddered my nylons.
Put the washing through the mangle.
She back combed her hair.
I'm saving up for a new radiogram.

No daytime TV.
BBC1, BBC2 and ITV.
Listen to the wireless.
Transistor radios.
Ghetto Blasters.
Teddy boys.
Mods and Rockers.
Brylcreem.
Hair lacquer.

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