1950's Childhood.

And cubed sugar is still posh in this house. We only buy it at Christmas!

Why?

I have no idea, Ana! We probably just only ever saw it at Christmas and have well, stuck with the idea that it's special. Like turkey. You'll be telling me next that you have turkey all year round.

Elegran, been reading The Hobbit with my grandson. Parentses is what Gollum would have said.

No Maggie, we only have turkey at Christmas - never thought about having it at any other time of the year!

No one in the family takes sugar in their beverages so I just keep a small bag of granulated for visitors and the gardener. I wouldn't know how many sugar lumps to use!

Two lumps in place of one teaspoon, Ana. Picked up with your DGM's best silver sugar tongs, of course.

Of course! Think of the germs if you did it with your fingers...

We're getting dangerously close to that hovering thread now.

Yes, that's what I was referring to!

I think families were more diverse in the 1950s than they are now, especially in their eating habits. Looking at the list merlot(?) posted, I noted that curry had been around in the UK since the establishment of the British Empire. Certainly my mother cooked it, but only for adults as she didn't think it was suitable for children. She would never have given Camp Coffee cupboard space. Coffee was always percolated with beans freshly ground in a ceramic coffee grinder attached to the kitchen wall. It was served with a bowl of sugar cubes because they take longer to dissolve than granulated sugar. (Yes, with silver sugar tongs.) I have never been offered or eaten bread and dripping. Nor would I want to.

Our bath was in the bathroom and not made from tin, but I did wear long woollen socks in the winter.

Love that Elegran, but we didn`t have Camp Coffee, we didn`t have coffee at all, not till just into the 60s. Agree that fish fingers were around, I remember having them from about 1958.
And we DO eat turkey at times other than Christmas, not all the time, but maybe every couple of months.
I remember we only had a cooked breakfast on a Sunday, and we kids had half a fried egg each, never a full one. My mother bought a bag of sweets on a Saturday, they were kept in the cupboard, eaten rarely, and had to last till the following Saturday. My grandma used to cut a Mars bar into 5 pieces between us when we went visiting, it was the treat of the week.

We always had to share fruit; my sister and I, so it was an apple cut in half, one piece each, same with an orange or banana, so I suppose it eked it out that way.