Food and drink from the past.

Back in the eighties,when DH was serving in Europe with the Army, he had to go down to the Black Forest region to visit some American Forces units. He stayed in a small local hotel and on a couple of nights was served with a bowl of pork dripping and bread to eat while waiting for his meal to be prepared. He said it was delicious! I always liked beef dripping as a child, from what seemed at that time like enormous joints of meat. There was always plenty for supper and to rehash during the week. Couldn't afford anything like as large now.

My mother made cakes with Stork margarine and pastry with half margarine and half lard. Stork was made from fish oil and tasted fishy. Do people remember Kit e Kat cat food in the 50s? That stank of fish too.

Remember when Stork came on the market in the 50s? And the advert: 'Can you tell Stork from Butter?' to which the answer was allegedly 'No'.

Stork is 90 years old and was introduced in 1920. We had it on bread in the 50s and Mum used it in baking too. Don't remember it tasting fishy though. Our cat was fed on kit e kat and that did stink of fish!

I don't think Stork was ever made from fish oil. Hasn't it always been the same as it is today?

Stork was disgusting, but not sure about 'fishy'.

KiteKat's still going, but surely all tinned catfood stinks of whatever the label claims the flavour is?

We had Blue Band margarine, it came in 4oz sticks all neatly packaged in a box. Grandma always had Empire butter, from the Co-op - of course.
Bread was Champion thin sliced for mum and a cob from the Co-op bread man for grandma.
He came on a horse and cart, the bucket and shovel was always handy ready to collect anything the horse might drop to put on the roses.

I remember those blue band sticks. In the USA they talk about "sticks of butter". It was probably an attempt to make us seem more American and modern.