Ah, British cuisine from the second half of the twentieth century. As an American, the first meal that comes to mind is tough beef with mushy cabbage and a dash of post-war austerity. For previous generations, Britain’s food culture was not so much today's trendy and diverse London-based food scene but more the product of garden vegetables and what was lurking in the tin cupboard.
Financial constraints kept taste buds grounded, resulting in meals that often made you wonder if the flavor was rationed, too. Older Brits connected — and commiserated — over shared memories of the everyday meals they once knew all too well when badoopidoo recently asked the r/askuk subreddit: "What did British people eat every day back in the '50s, '60s, and '70s?". The responses offer a healthy dose of nostalgia.
Still, they might just make you grateful that your dinner plans will not be in 1975 Birmingham. 1. "It's important to remember that post-war rationing had a real impact on our food culture for a generation.
I grew up in the 1980s, and boiled potatoes featured very heavily in our diet, along with boiled carrots (or other vegetables) and some sort of meat in gravy." — inflatablefish "Agreed. You had a whole generation who didn’t know how to cook anything outside of what was available through rationing in World War II.
And definitely no ‘foreign’ food. It was mainly a small amount of meat, boiled potatoes, and overboiled veg." — Fattydog 2.
"I was a kid in the '70s, and I alw.