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I have to admit I avidly read articles where people have tried to recreate the bizarre recipes of the 40s and 50s. And I genuinely laugh out loud. Not quietly either. I start off shaking silently with mirth and then end up snorting and crying with laughter. It probably helps that many of them are on cracked.com (sorry, cheating on you again)

But the point I wanted to make was that the food we ate in the 70s as a working class household, is not dissimilar to the food middle class parents try to stuff into their children now. No fast food. Nothing frozen. Offal and stewed meat. LOTS of vegetables and everything bought fresh, locally.

Okay there was probably a bit more lard and a bit less basil knocking about. And yes, it was pretty bland. But hey - we had exciting carpets and wallpaper, so you couldn't overload the excitment.